MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
With talk about Mid Century Modern houses I thought I'd post about my recent acquisition.
In 1964 my family was on vacation from Los Angeles to Nashville with a detour through St. Louis. I believe there was family to visit in St. Louis but my father being the Architect he was couldn't pass up seeing a Frank Lloyd Wright house. At the time the Theodore A. Pappas House was just finishing up construction, my father stopped and was able to see the house and talk with the owner. At the end of the day my father asked about getting a block or two, my mother said that if he could he would have loaded up the station wagon, he was free to take what he wanted from the scrap pile.
For years these were used under a 40x60 wood coffee table, as the years passed the top was put into storage which I acquired several years ago and built a new base to use it as a dining room table.
I'll need to get a picture of the completed table.
Back to the house, of the six houses built with this modularized brick this was the only one to be tinted, the others were natural concrete.
I now have the two blocks and again plan to use them for a coffee table but with a sheet of glass to show them off.
Alan
In 1964 my family was on vacation from Los Angeles to Nashville with a detour through St. Louis. I believe there was family to visit in St. Louis but my father being the Architect he was couldn't pass up seeing a Frank Lloyd Wright house. At the time the Theodore A. Pappas House was just finishing up construction, my father stopped and was able to see the house and talk with the owner. At the end of the day my father asked about getting a block or two, my mother said that if he could he would have loaded up the station wagon, he was free to take what he wanted from the scrap pile.
For years these were used under a 40x60 wood coffee table, as the years passed the top was put into storage which I acquired several years ago and built a new base to use it as a dining room table.
I'll need to get a picture of the completed table.
Back to the house, of the six houses built with this modularized brick this was the only one to be tinted, the others were natural concrete.
I now have the two blocks and again plan to use them for a coffee table but with a sheet of glass to show them off.
Alan
