The Spring House sits on 10 wooded acres outside Tallahassee, Florida, with a curved, wood-paneled form that projects from the landscape like a grounded ship. It is the only residence Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Florida and is listed for $2.1 million. The house was completed in 1954 for George and Clifton Lewis, who requested a design for a large family with limited funds. The 2,000-square-foot structure illustrates Wright's late-career focus on complex curved geometries and shares a conceptual lineage with the Guggenheim. The hemicycle approach uses semicircular plans and large curved glass walls to capture the sun's arc; the Spring House's back wall is a sweeping semicircle almost entirely paneled in glass.
Nicknamed the Spring House after a nearby natural water feature, the home was completed in 1954 as a commission for husband and wife George and Clifton Lewis. According to the Spring House Institute (the organization responsible for the property's preservation), the Lewises asked Wright to design a space for them with the stipulation that they had "a lot of children and not much money."
However, in his later years, Wright became more interested in understanding how carefully conceived curves could change the utility of a space. This curve-based approach, termed Wright's "hemicycle style," involved designing semicircular floor plans behind large curved glass walls to allow the building to receive the full arc of the sun during the day. In the Spring House, that's most evident through the home's back wall, which features a sweeping semicircle that looks out into the back yard and is almost entirely paneled in glass.
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