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The Sol Friedman House in Pleasantville, New York, is a single-family home Frank Lloyd Wright designed for the Usonia Homes development north of New York City. Built in 1948 and completed in 1949, it was the first of Wright’s three houses in that community. Wright called it Toyhill, reflecting owner Sol Friedman’s business in books, records, and some toys. The design belongs to Wright’s postwar exploration of circular forms, organized around two intersecting closed circles, with a straight terrace parapet, a mushroom-shaped carport, and mushroom-like concrete roof slabs. Its sloped random ashlar masonry walls and band of metal-framed windows make it a memorable example of Wright’s late domestic work.
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