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It's History: Season 8

8x197 The Problematic Frank Lloyd Wright Monument - Demolishing America’s First Modern Office Building

  • 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 10m
  • United States
  • Documentary
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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