By Jim Furcini, longtime Arcadia resident, owner of Phoenix-based Furcini Construction Corp. | Phoenix Business Journal
(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussions purposes only. Rose Law Group represents Peter Sperling in supporting the Arcadia Community in their fight to preserve their long standing residential character.)
First, Mr. Rawling, I want to say thank you for buying and preserving the David and Gladys Wright house. It has been quite a journey.
As you know, Frank Lloyd Wright originally designed the home for a couple in New Jersey, but his adaptation to the Arcadia site was genius and fortuitous for the Phoenix area. The authoritative book on the subject — “How to Live in the Southwest,” which you quote often in your promotional materials — refers to it as a “reworked generic project,” thus falling a bit short of the “Last Great Residential Masterpiece” moniker you have bestowed upon it.
