johnholder ∙ Dec 17, 2009

very grand. Thanksallot

johnholder ∙ Dec 17, 2009

ErikMesa1179 ∙ Nov 22, 2009

The Graycliff estate is located about 20 miles south of Buffalo, New York on the cliffs overlooking Lake Erie (hence the name).  The home was designed as a summer residence for Isabel Martin who already lived in a Wright home in town (The Martin House Complex).  The home features two levels and a basement.  I could find no basement floorplan although I know there is one as there are stairs going down in the floorplan.  The main level consists of a large entryway with staircase.  Past that are a large living room with a library and sun room to the left and a dining room and kitchen with sunroom to the right.  Upstairs are four family bedrooms and two servant bedrooms (over the kitchen).  In the furnished version of the house the servant rooms are empty.  There are a few differences in my version as compared to the real house.  1. The kitchen in the real house consists of two rooms whereas in mine it's one room.  That means there is a large empty room of the first floor that you can use for whatever you want.  2. Overall I've slightly enlarged the house to make it sim-livable (as usual).  3. My version of the house has two chimney units but the real house only has one.  I'm not sure why since there are fireplaces in three different locations.  4. In the real house under the carport the driveway curves left and enters a garage with caretaker house above.  There was no way to recreate this.  5.  The fountain by the carport is actually there in the real house but it falls into a creek to the pond there.  This lot was to narrow to recreate the pond as it really is.  The overall style of this house says "prairie" which fits into the earlier era of FLW's work but it was actually designed and built from 1926-1929.  The only custom content are some wallpapers I made for the exterior stucco and trim.  The Rolls, Bentley and Ferrari in the driveway in the picture are not included with this lot.  I am also uploading an unfurnished version of this house for anyone who wants to decorate themselves.  This is my #19th FLW house upload so I'm almost 1/5th of the way to my goal of "100 houses" although I can see it's going to take longer then a year.  I hope you enjoy it.  ErikMesa