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In 1958, the late Frank Lloyd Wright designed an 880-square-foot Mirror Lake cottage for Seth Peterson, a young computer specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles.
Wright was near death at the time. He never visited the construction site. Peterson committed suicide when he was 24 and he never saw the completed building, either.
One of the many things that made the Seth Peterson cottage known as a Wright building is that its actual cost far exceeded Wright's $15,000 estimate. Some estimates of the final cost...