Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright - Louis Penfield House - Willoughby Hills, Ohio. Graycliff - Wright on the Lake. The Graycliff Estate was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright between 1926-31 for Isabelle R. Martin, wife of industrialist Darwin Martin. The family owned the property until, after the deaths of Isabelle and Darwin Martin, their descendents sold the property (c. 1951) to the Piarist Fathers, an order of Roman Catholic Priests from Hungary, who used Graycliff as their motherhouse. The Fathers altered the property substantially for their own uses, adding additional buildings and structures that obscured Wright’s vision for nearly fifty years. In 1997, with only a handful of elderly priests remaining, they put Graycliff up for sale. Although many people considered purchasing Graycliff, the only offer the Fathers received was from a developer, who wished to tear down the buildings to build condominiums on the prime lake front location.
Carol Bronnenkant and her family were among those who looked at the property. From those meetings, the Graycliff Conservancy was born. Frank Lloyd Wright | The Cooke House | Virginia Beach. The Ennis House - Frank Lloyd Wright, Los Angeles 1924. Muirhead Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast. Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Complex :: Home. Fallingwater | Home.