The Roland Reisley House seen from the street. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons user Stilfehler (CC BY-SA 4.0)
“I am the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright, still living in the home he designed for me,” Reisley told NPR, sitting in the bright open living room of the home designed by the famed architect. […]
The house is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But Reisley said neither he, his wife, nor his three children treated the home like a museum.
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NPR’s Vanessa Romo visits Roland Reisley — at 101 years old, the last living client of Frank Lloyd Wright and proud resident of his Usonian-style home in Westchester County, NY, for 73 years.Â
Reisley and his wife, Rosalyn Sachs Reisley, worked with Wright when they were still in their twenties, and he attributes his good health to the building’s nature-inspired design. “Neuroscientists tell us that awareness of beauty in one’s environment for a long time, reduces stress, can have physiological benefits, perhaps even longevity,” he tells NPR. “And I realized that there’s not a day of my life that I didn’t see something beautiful.”
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