Rosenbaum House [SEP] architect
Rosenbaum House
The Rosenbaum House is a single-family house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built for Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum in Florence, Alabama. A noted example of his Usonian house concept, it is the only Wright building in Alabama, and is one of only 26 pre-World War II Usonian houses. Wright scholar John Sergeant called it "the purest example of the Usonian."
History.
In 1938 newlyweds Stanley Rosenbaum (a professor at Florence State Teachers' College) and his wife Mildred
has tried to enliven the urban space through the use of a corner tower with a twisting dome, balconies and other architectural ornamentation. It has been suggested that he was inspired by the theoretical works of Camillo Sitte in this and other projects.
The house on Pikk 23/25 was well received in the local press, and helped establish Rosenbaum as an architect in Tallinn.
Main works, 1907–1919 House on Pikk 18.
In 1910, Rosenbaum completed another project for Reinhold Reichman, this time on Pikk 18 – just across the