Malcolm Willey House
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The Malcolm Willey House is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built in 1934. The current design is the second design that Wright came up for the Willeys, since the first design proved too costly for the family. The house is designed so that the living room and dining room were unified in a single space, and the kitchen was separated from them by only a group of shelves. This allowed a clear view from the kitchen to the living and dining area, allowing Mrs. Willey to watch the rest of the house while in the kitchen. This was an important step away from the historic precedent of compartmentalizing the functions of the house into separate rooms. The house can be considered a bridge between Wright's earlier Prairie School style houses, and his later Usonian style houses, since it incorporates certain elements from both styles. The house's new owners recently undertook a thorough restoration.
