Tours of Zimmerman and Kalil Houses — Attraction in Manchester

The Zimmerman house is a restored Frank Lloyd Wright creation, built in NH in the early 1950s for a couple who both worked in the medical field. The house apparently cost about $60, 000 all in and is close to 1600 square feet with two bedrooms. The home althoug small by today's standards, is incredibly well placed on the lot and wonderfully quiet. The interior feels a lot like Kentucky Nob in Pennsylvania,. You enter with traditional Frank Lloyd Wright compression, take a right and enter the great room. It has extremely small windows along the front of the house above the banquette of couches running along the front wall facing toward the back of the house. The back side of the great room is filled with windows and planters that allow for an indoor outdoor feeling. Moving around the center axis of the house you come back to the kitchen area that's placed exactly in the same way it is with Kentuck Nob. The central Kitchen and operational center of the house is found within the central access and core of the structure. There is a master bedroom in the back off the kitchen. From the front door if you enter and turn left, you'll go along a corridor that then goes back to an open area that could also be a bedroom with a bath for any guests that might have stayed over. The home is maintained in a Suburban setting still by the preservationist of The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester. Tours start at The Currier Museum and take about 5 minutes by bus to get to the actual property. You'll be asked to don protective booties before you enter the home, and the care and restoration that the museum has put into the home shows. It's beautiful. And if you're a Wright fan, it's a must see and wonderful example nestled in the woods of...

The only Frank Lloyd Wright house you can tour in New Hampshire (recently, the museum bought the Kalil House nearby, so the museum owns the only two FLW houses in NH). Worth the detour if you are in the Manchester area. FLW's Usonian house is at the origin of all American bungalows. The volunteer guides are very diligent about the house: you reach the house by bus only from the Currier Museum, you cannot touch anything --like in a museum--, you have to wear shoe covers, you cannot take pictures inside. They are a bit fussy, at Fallingwater, we can take...

Had so much fun in my daughters field trip today with my husband. We really enjoyed coming there. If you can appreciate art and a little bit of history this is the place to go. I have never been to any other art museum so it was my first time but seeing it in person was so much nicer than what people claim online or in books or through TV or movies. I enjoyed the entertainment they provided for the kids and got the kids to make their own artwork. This place was really nice one day i will have to go and really look at...