7 Frank Lloyd Wright Houses to Book for Your Next Vacation

Named after the family who enjoyed the home for 32 years, the Schwartz House wasn't the typical commission for a client. In fact, Wright designed it as a model for the American "dream house" for a Life magazine article. The publication enlisted two architects to create vastly different projects: one modern and one traditional. Wright took on the former, which resulted in the Schwartz House.

Today, two brothers, Gary and Michael Ditmer, own the home. They have lovingly restored it back to its former glory and rent it out for groups.

Though it's up for debate, the Norman Lykes House is said to be the last project Wright designed before his death in 1959. In fact, he died before the two-story curvilinear home was completed. So fellow architect and Wright's former apprentice, John Rattenbury finished it. Wright's original plan was for every room to boast unobstructed views of Phoenix and the surrounding Palm Canyon.

Wright built the Elam House for S. P. “Pearl” Elam and his wife Eleanor Lampert Plunkett without ever stepping foot on the property. He designed the entire five-bedroom home—including the complex stonework, which took two years to finish—based only on photographs of the empty lot.

Wright designed this three-bedroom vacation home for a family, the Cornwells, based in Pennsylvania. It's the only project the architect ever did in Hawaii, and all of the home's features—outdoor lava-rock hot tub overlooking the ocean, panoramic views of the Big Island's volcanoes, and solar hemicycle design—prioritize its unique location.

As evidenced by Wright's most famous design, Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, the creative believed in organic architecture, connecting a building with its surrounding environment. The Palmer House, which the namesake family enjoyed from 1950 until 2009, is built right into the hill crest of the property.

After Wright's death, the Palmers enlisted his protégé, John H. Howe, to design a teahouse—which is connected to the main residence.

The Davises hired Wright under unusual circumstances, they met at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where Dr. Davis was completing his surgery fellowship and Wright was undergoing gallbladder surgery. The night before the surgery, Dr. Davis and Wright got to talking, which is when the architect learned the doctor's plans to eventually move back to his home state of Indiana with his family. Wright decided then and there that he would design the young doctor's home, and in 1955, he did. Twenty-two years later, it ended up on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wright designed the Emil Bach House during an interesting time in his life: right after his long-term stay in Europe and before his journey to Japan. He designed the large home in his classic prairie style, but this was different than his usual homes of the same vein because the Bach house wasn't in suburbia, it was on a busy Chicago street. The matriarch of the Bach family once described it as "a thing of beauty.”