Frank Lloyd Wright once designed a shimmering complex near Kalorama
in 1922 the Masons announced plans to turn the land into Temple Heights, the setting for an impressive complex of neoclassical Masonic buildings.
For Temple Heights, Thurman envisioned what today we would call a mixed-use development. And he hired Wright to design it. Thurman asked Wright to place on the sloping Dean tract site a complex that would include a hotel, an apartment house, a parking garage, a movie theater, a shopping center and other commercial spaces. It would be an almost self-contained city within the city.The design morphed over the months in 1939 and 1940 that Wright worked on it.
The buildings, Wright wrote to Thurman, “should be worked out in white marble, verdigris bronze and crystal [glass], and show up the Capitol for a fallen dumpling and Washington hotels as insufferable. And this is to suggest that you change Temple Heights to CRYSTAL HEIGHTS because of the crystalline character of the whole edifice. It will be an iridescent fabric with every surface showing of the finest quality.
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