Broad Margin

Broad Margin is the name given to the private residence originally commissioned by Gabrielle and Charlcey Austin. It is located in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and was built by local builder Harold T. Newton in 1954.^[2][3] It is one of two buildings designed by Wright in South Carolina (the other being the Auldbrass Plantation).

Broad Margin
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Broad Margin in Greenville, South Carolina ca. 1987
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Location	9 West Avondale Drive, Greenville, South Carolina
Coordinates	34°52′23″N 82°23′26″W
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1954
Architect	Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural style	Usonian
NRHP reference No.	78002513[1]
Added to NRHP	December 8, 1978

It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

The house is built into the slope of the 2-acre (0.81 ha) lot. It has 12-inch-thick (30 cm) concrete walls. It extensively uses cypress wood throughout including its ceiling of cypress boards. The house has polished red concrete floors. Copper tubes are embedded in the concrete floors to heat the house using hot water.

The cypress furniture was designed for the house. The doors and window frames were constructed on-site of cypress. The hardware is solid brass.

The house was documented with photographs and written historical data by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1988.^[4]

See also

• List of Frank Lloyd Wright works

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. Palmer, Roy; Georgianna Graham; Kappy McNulty (July 31, 1978). "Broad Margin" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
3. "Broad Margin, Greenville County (9 W. Avondale Dr., Greenville)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
4. Pittenger, Nancy; Sims, E. Thomas (April 5, 1988). "Broad Margin". Historic American Buildings Survey. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 2, 2014.

• Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 (S.345)

External links

Media related to Broad Margin at Wikimedia Commons

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-597, "Broad Margin, 9 West Avondale Drive, Greenville, Greenville, SC", 28 photos, 2 color transparencies, 4 data pages, 3 photo caption pages