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# Frank Lloyd Wright House Escapes Demolition for Now
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/frank-lloyd-wright-house-escapes-demolition-for-now/
- Published: 2012-10-05T16:40:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:18:53.000Z
- Description: A few days ago, we asked whether the New York Times could save a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix from demolition. The answer, it appears, is yes — at least for now.
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: News, Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Preservation, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![The David Wright House](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/10/david-wright-house.jpg)

The David Wright House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (image via change.org)

A few days ago, we asked [whether the *New York Times* could save a Frank Lloyd Wright house](https://hyperallergic.com/frank-lloyd-wright-house-under-threat/) in Phoenix from demolition. The answer, it appears, is yes — [at least for now](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iN6kk76w8dDwC9L0BBOKBA-UsDtg?ref=hyperallergic.com).

In the two days since the *Times* rang some serious alarm bells with a front-page story about the house, which the architect built for his son David, the city of Phoenix and the developer that owns the property, 8081 Meridian, reached a deal that puts any potential work or demolition on hold for the next month. In the meantime, the city is trying to find a buyer for the house who will support its designation as a historic landmark and maintain it.

Brendan Mahoney, a senior adviser for Phoenix’s mayor, told the [Associated Press](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iN6kk76w8dDwC9L0BBOKBA-UsDtg?ref=hyperallergic.com) that he’s “pretty confident” the city will find a buyer and went so far as to compare the potential destruction of the house to “destroying a Rembrandt or a Picasso.” He was even more forceful in a statement to [CultureGrrl](http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2012/10/news%5Fflash%5Fpolice%5Fguard%5Fphoeni.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), saying, “We will do everything in our power to preserve it.”

CultureGrrl adds that police are now guarding the house 24/7, “just \[to\] be sure.” I suppose you never *can* trust those sneaky developers …