Frank Lloyd Wright’s Michigan Usonian

Posted: December 18, 2025 | Source: www.realtor.com

In the late 1940s, the Upjohn pharmaceutical company was the largest employer in Kalamazoo, Michigan with a company emphasis on family and quality of life. A group of twelve scientists from Upjohn sought out Frank Lloyd Wright to design a community of homes. With simplicity, form and function in mind, Wright’s Usonian designs met their criteria. They wanted houses that they could build themselves or with limited help and chose a 70-acre parcel of open and wooded land with a three-acre pond in Galesburg, Michigan. One of the Wright-designed homes recently had a big price reduction, from $2.25 million to $1.4 million.