Still Bend/Frank Lloyd Wright’s Schwartz House is a unique Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home that was featured on Season 2 of the Netflix series “The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Rentals.”
Eight of the best architects in the world were asked to design a house that would be considered a “dream home” for the typical middle-class American family. The result was this 3,000-square-foot home that’s the built version of a home Wright designed for the September 1938 edition of Life magazine.
If you’re not familiar with the architect/designer, he was born in 1867 and raised in Wisconsin, designing over 1,100 structures over 70 years to become one of history’s most influential architects.
It was quite fitting that in 1940, Bernard Schwartz and his wife decided to bring the 3,000-square-foot home to life in Wright’s home state where it sits now in the town of Two Rivers. Still Bend was renovated by the current owners into what is now one of just 11 Frank Lloyd Wright homes available for overnight stays in the U.S.
Co-owner Michael Ditmer says they’re thrilled to share this home to help people understand how they can enjoy a place designed by Wright the way he intended, experiencing his genius in a way that a typical tour can’t.
Ditmer says that Wright’s “brilliance can only be fully experienced by living in one of his creations,” something that’s almost magical, leaving one transformed.
The four-bedroom home has two full baths and two half-baths and sits on the banks of the East Twin River. A stay here means waking up in an enchanting space to enjoy the songs of the birds that like to splash in the river and watch the morning light that’s projected through clerestory window screens onto the red brick windows.
Afterward, you might take your coffee down to the dock on the river and sip while watching a Sandhill Crane searching for a feast.
The 63-foot-long living room is ideal for reading one of the vintage novels that can be enjoyed from the library shelves.
In classic Wright fashion, Still Bend is awash with wood paneling, Cherokee Redbrick, built-in furniture, and an abundance of natural light.
It’s unlike any home you’ve ever seen with ceiling heights that differ throughout the space, while the concrete floors are heated. A lot of the original furniture and décor is still inside in the home – it’s fun just to check out some of the pieces like an old typewriter and radio that sit at the desk making it feel extra authentic.
Still Bend/Frank Lloyd Wright’s Schwartz House is even listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It epitomizes his mid-century Usonian design principles as well as his vision of architect-designed homes that would be affordable to the emergent middle class in the U.S. at the time.
You can stay at one of “The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Rentals!” by booking a trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Still Bend home for your next escape right here on Airbnb.
