$725K Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Wisconsin Home Hits the Market for the First Time

Abstract

During the mid-1950s, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a home in Mount Pleasant, WI, for the daughter of an S.C. Johnson Co. president. Karen Johnson Boyd and her first husband, Willard Keland, commissioned Wright for the project in 1954. In 1961, two years after Wright's death, his chief draftsman, John "Jack" Howe, added some design changes to the home. Family history Johnson Boyd was the daughter of Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr., whose grandfather Samuel Curtis Johnson founded the company S.C. Johnson & Son, in Racine. Johnson Boyd had grown up in a different Wright-designed property known as the Wingspread estate in nearby Wind Point. It's now owned by the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, open for public tours, and is also used as a conference and retreat site. Johnson Boyd later lived in the Willard Keland Home with her children and second husband, Bill Boyd.