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If you're an architecture buff, set aside Saturday, August 20 to visit Petra House on Lake Mahopac, N.Y. Petra House, which sits on an island in the lake, was designed in 1950 by Frank Lloyd Wright when he was 83. Construction on the house stopped when the owner, A. K. Chahroudi, ran out of money and the property sat unfinished and untouched for many years.
In 1991 Joseph Massaro, a local resident, purchased the property and hired Thomas A. Heinz, an architect and Wright scholar to complete the project using detailed architectural drawings obtained from Chahroudi's son.
Petra House has stirred up controversy among Wright purists who say it was not built as Wright would have wished. Massaro claims he went to special lengths to build the house exactly as Wright had envisioned. Wright believed that the Mahopac house would surpass the success of his 1935 masterpiece, Fallingwater.
Joe Massaro will conduct two morning tours of the house. Tickets are $65 and the fee will benefit the Putnam Arts Council. Call (845) 802-8622 for tour times and reservations.
Have you ever visited a Frank Lloyd Wright house?
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