Albert and Edith Adelman House [SEP] architect
Albert and Edith Adelman House
The Albert and Edith Adelman House is a mid-scale home in Fox Point, Wisconsin designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1948.
In 1948 Albert "Ollie" Adelman and wife Edith had three young sons (Lynn, Gary & Craig), when Ollie asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home for the family on his lot at Fox Point. The house should cost about $75,000. Albert was the son of Benjamin Adelman, who founded a large laundry and dry cleaning
business in the Milwaukee area. Wright designed a number of projects for the Adelman family, including a laundry plant, three 
homes for Benjamin, and two for Albert. Of these, only this house and the Benjamin Adelman Residence in Phoenix (1951), were actually built. Wright's first design for the house, with brick walls and tile roof, would have cost $325,000 to build, far beyond Adelman's budget. Eventually Wright scaled down his plans to fit Adelman's budget.
The Adelman house brings