Auldbrass: Frank Lloyd Wright's Southern Plantation

Although Frank Lloyd Wright designed over 1000 projects during his long and prolific career, Auldbrass, in Yemassee, South Carolina, is the only plantation among them. It is also one of the largest and most complex projects he ever undertook. Wright had an unusually intense commitment to Auldbrass, and worked on it, off and on, for over twenty years, from 1938 until his death in 1959. Because Auldbrass was private and fell into disrepair in the 1960s after the original owners' death, it was rarely photographed or published, and as a consequence little has been known about this major work. In 1986 film producer Joel Silver bought Auldbrass, and with the help of Eric Lloyd Wright, the grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright, he has meticulously restored this stunning architectural gem. Now, with the completed restoration and new photography, author David G. De Long offers us the first opportunity to see one of Wright's greatest works, as the master himself originally envisioned it.

David G. De Long is Professor of Architecture in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania.