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Don E. Lovness Studio & Cottage

Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
Place
Stillwater, Minnesota, United States
Construction
1958
Design / archive date
1955
Catalogue reference
FLWFA 5507 / S.391
Low house with stone walls, dark window frames and a flat roof beside a broad lawn and tall trees.
Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0 · Original photograph source

The two-bedroom "studio" portion of Frank Lloyd Wright 's Don E. Lovness Studio & Cottage (1958), Grant, Minnesota . The cottage, not in photo, was completed in 1972 and is not the original design by Wright. The landscaping (including patio of the Studio) was designed far later by someone trying very, very hard to be like FLW's style.

The documented record

Don Lovness house (Stillwater, Minnesota).. The catalogue sources below document this work; a longer reference overview is not available in this edition.

Studio completed in 1958 Cottage built 1972, but is not FLW's original design.

Research notes

The Lovness estate demonstrates why a restoration record needs to say which building and which period it concerns.

Owner Ted Muntz’s account, published by the Building Conservancy, describes work on the Studio and explains the balance between retaining Wright’s design and accommodating later domestic life.

The named Sansin wood finish and replacement floor products belong to that renovation narrative. They are evidence of later choices, not products specified by Wright. Nor should a Studio treatment automatically be attributed to the separate Cottage.

What the sources do not establish
  • Later products are not described as original Wright specifications.
  • The Studio account does not establish matching treatment throughout the Cottage.

Sources & evidence

Research checked 2026-11-02 · Editorial policy & corrections

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