Frank Lloyd Wright Bachman Wilson House

Complete transcript of the Frank Lloyd Wright Bachman Wilson House audio tour.

Your tour concludes with an examination of the house’s grounds and carport.

Visit the guest room and bathroom, and learn about the upstairs spaces of the house.

Learn how the kitchen, or “workspace,” was designed for efficiency.

Explore the dining room’s modular furniture and mitered window.

Discover how Wright has designed the hearth to function as the backbone of the house.

Crystal Bridges’ Executive Director Rod Bigelow welcomes you to the Bachman-Wilson House.

Take a close look at the decorative windows that top the walls of the Bachman-Wilson House.

Discover how Wright used sensations of compression and release to add drama to your entry into the living space.

Learn about Wright’s choices of glass, wood, and concrete elements.

In 2014, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced the acquisition of a rare Frank Lloyd Wright house originally built in 1954 along the Millstone River in New Jersey. Since then, the house has been disassembled, transported 1,200 miles across the country, and meticulously reconstructed on the grounds of the museum.

Windows and the staircase come next, all thoroughly labeled and wrapped in preparation for transport to Bentonville.

Deconstruction of the Bachman Wilson House continues with dismantling of the exterior façade and doors, plus interior architectural elements.

With the interior fixtures removed, the deconstruction team begins dismantling the walls and floors inside the house. Each board is labeled and inventoried, and the pieces are bundled and stacked for shipment to Crystal Bridges.

Deconstruction of the Bachman Wilson house gets underway with the careful removal, inventory, and packaging of the home's interior fixtures and board and batten wall panels.

Originally built in 1954 along the Millstone River in Somerset County, N.J., this classic Usonian home, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was acquired by Crystal Bridges late in 2013, and is in the process of being dismantled and relocated to the Museum gro