Buy a historic Frank Lloyd Wright home in Mississippi for $2.5 million

The restored Fountainhead house, rooted in Usonian ideals and craftsmanship, is for sale near Jackson

An archetypal Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow, built in the last decade of the architect’s life, has hit the market in Mississippi.

Dubbed Fountainhead, the historic home was designed around parallelogram motifs on a diamond-shaped acre of woodland in Fondren, outside Jackson, and completed as Wright began work on the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The landmark home, on the market with Douglas Adams and David Abner Smith of Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty for $2.5m. It’s considered a masterpiece of organic, Usonian architecture, dictated by the surroundings and the principles of natural harmony.

Wright called the three-bedroom property The Fountainhead after the eponymous novel by Ayn Rand, whose protagonist was famously inspired by the architect himself. But locals have called it the Hughes House, after Wright’s client J Willis Hughes, who lived here until 1980. The current owner is architect Robert Parker Adams, who has spent decades restoring its Heart Tidewater Red Cypress walls and the original copper roof.

The 330 sq m home was built without stud walls, sheetrock, brick, tile or paint, with a focus on expansive windows to the lush gardens. Built-ins crafted in warm wood reduce the need for furniture, while the home’s thoughtful geometry and craftsmanship make it a rare and covetable example of Wright’s late Usonian ideals.

Photography: Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty
Photography: Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty
Photography: Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty
Photography: Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty
Photography: Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty

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