The “Problematic” Frank Lloyd Wright Monument | Demolishing America’s First Modern Office Building

The Larkin Building was an office building in Buffalo, New York, noted for innovations that included central air conditioning, built-in desk furniture, and suspended toilet partitions and bowls. Located at 680 Seneca Street, it was demolished in 1950. Designed in 1903 by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1904-1906 for the Larkin Soap Company, the five-story dark-red brick building used a pink-tinted mortar and steel-frame construction. Sculptor Richard Bock provided ornamentation for the building.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Frank Lloyd Wrights’s most brutal building | The Larkin Administrative Building
00:56 - The history of office buildings
02:09 - What made Frank Lloyd Wright different from other architects?
03:58 - The History of the Larkin Soap Company
06:10 - What was inside The Larkin Administrative Building?
09:02 - Why The Larkin Administrative Building was so unique
09:58 - The Tragic Downfall of Albert Hubbard
12:33 - Why traveling to Europe on the Lusitania was a big mistake
14:31 - Why The Larkin Building Was Abandoned
16:46 - How to demolish a Frank Lloyd Write Monument

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