FLWright's design on valley farmland gets
first-hand expertise in awarded restoration

The back story to preservation awards being showered this fall on a Frank Lloyd Wright home starts with a California country squire and his wife seeking out the master to design something unusual for him: a farmhouse.

"It's one of the better works that he did, I think, and one of the least known," says longtime Fresno architect Arthur Dyson, who designed the lauded restoration of the Fawcett House in Los Banos. "It's very different than any of his other homes…It's probably the only real farmhouse he did, the only one in California at least."

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