Robert Llewellyn Wright House Explained

Robert Llewellyn Wright House
Location:7927 Deepwell Drive
Bethesda, Maryland
Coordinates:39.0077°N -77.1668°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Marker:building
Mapframe-Zoom:12
Mapframe-Caption:Interactive map showing the Robert Llewelyn House
Architect:Wright, Frank Lloyd; Beharka, Robert
Architecture:Hemicyclical, Usonian
Added:August 12, 1986
Refnum:86002621

The Robert Llewellyn Wright House is a historic home located at 7927 Deepwell Drive in Bethesda, Maryland. It is an 1800-square foot two-story concrete-block structure designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953, and constructed in 1957 for his sixth child, Robert Llewellyn Wright (1903–86), who worked at the Justice Department.[1]

The Usonian house was designed using intersecting and concentric segments of a circle, or "hemicycles". Initial designs were scrapped after the construction was too costly.[1]

The house can be seen from Deepwell Drive on a sloping lot that overlooks a stream. It is also visible from the Cabin John Stream Valley Trail, which follows the Cabin John Creek below it. In 1960, the grounds were landscaped by Lloyd Wright, brother of the client, and the son of the architect.

As of 2010, the house was inhabited by Tom Wright,[2] grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright, and a volcano specialist.[1]

It is one of only two Wright-designed structures in Maryland; the other is the Joseph Euchtman House in Baltimore County.[3]

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  1. News: McKeon . Nancy . A family home, a family legacy. E1, E4 . The Washington Post . 21 August 2010. 21 August 2015.
  2. Web site: The Wright House. 9 September 2009.
  3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Robert Llewellyn Wright House . February 1985 . 2016-01-01 . Peter E. Kurtze . Maryland Historical Trust.