Restoring great houses as museums is a challenge on many fronts. There is the building itself to consider, preserving it at just the right point in its historic timeline, and paying for those restorations, of course. But one aspect that is often forgotten is the restoration of its distinctive furnishings and decorative touches. These are commonly the first items to leave the house, dispersed far and wide and very difficult and expensive to recapture. For one particular house museum, we have a happy ending. The newly restored Martin House Complex in Buffalo, N.Y., designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907 and resuscitated by HHL Architects, has secured seven of the building’s original stained glass windows.
According The New York Times, the windows have long resided with the University of Victoria in Canada, which is returning them to the Martin House. Find out which museums in the United States still retain Martin windows in the article.