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Taliesin School: Frank Lloyd Wright House Donation Called Off

Frank Lloyd Wright house interior
(Photo courtesy of the David and Gladys Wright House Foundation)
Interior of the Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Phoenix Arcadia neighborhood.

The School of Architecture at Taliesin said it will no longer receive a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix that the famous architect designed for his son.

Last year, house owner Zach Rawling said he would give it to the architecture school if $7 million could be raised to restore and manage the 1952 property. Rawling purchased the Wright home in 2012 with plans to turn it into a museum.

The announcement did not say how much had been raised, but said those funds will be donated to the school. The fate of the historic house is unknown.

Claire Caulfield was a reporter and Morning Edition producer at KJZZ from 2015 to 2019.