FORTHCOMING | The house that spite built: Abby Beecher Roberts and a lost Jens Jensen landscape

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Written By Philip Barash

Jens Jensen and Frank Lloyd Wright enjoyed a long and productive collaboration. But by 1937, the two friends were beefing. The cause of their enmity? A project in a remote Michigan town, commissioned by an extraordinary client. Today, Abby Beecher Roberts’s home and landscape are once again causing a fight, this time over family legacy, land claims, and preservation.

A long-form feature in Landscape Architecture Magazine is forthcoming in 2022.

Philip Barash
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