Herbert and Katherine Jacobs First House

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The Herbert and Katherine Jacobs First House, commonly referred to as Jacobs I, is a single-family home at 441 Toepfer Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the family of the journalist Herbert Jacobs, it was completed in 1937 and is sometimes cited as Wright's first Usonian-style house. The house is a single-story, L-shaped structure covering 1,550 square feet (144 m2). It sits on a slope that descends toward Lake Wingra to the southeast. The Jacobs First House was one of three major buildings that Wright designed in the 1930s, along with the Johnson Wax Building and Fallingwater. Prior to the Jacobs House's construction, most of Wright's clients had been wealthy; in contrast, Jacobs was a young newspaperman who worked for the Capital Times and earned no more than $35 a week. In August 1936, Jacobs asked Wright to design a house costing no more than $5,000; the architect devised the initial plans within two months. The structure ultimately...

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