Design

Paul Olfelt House / Frank Lloyd Wright

This is the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Paul Olfelt house in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota. The house actually dates from 1960, which is two years after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for lawyer Paul C Olfelt and his family in 1958. After the architect’s death, Taliesin Architects completed the project.

There’s something else very interesting about this place too. It has just been put on the market for the very first time by those original owners.

$1,495,000 is the asking price, which works out at around £1,048,000 — via WowHaus

Design

Sugar Grove Station / West Virginia

Those readers with a few bucks to spare and who fancy owning an entire US base with a decidedly spooky history should proceed directly here for the opportunity to bid on Sugar Grove Station in West Virginia.

The facility once served nearby antennas forming part of ECHELON, and although the eavesdropping kit isn’t included in the sale, for a bid in excess of $1m (way in excess, we reckon), you’ll get a wonderful fenced community including 80 single-family homes, a 53-unit accommodation block, fire station, day care centre, gymnasium, community centre, swimming pool, baseball field, running track, and so on — via Youtube

Entertainment

Rod Serling on Kamikazes / Blank on Blank

The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they don’t walk through life; they fly — Rod Serling in 1963.

If you’ve never seen the Twilight Zone, you’re missing what might be one of the smartest and most thought-provoking television series of all-time. On the surface, it mimicked ordinary life. The pace was ordinary until challenges to the deepest fears and uncertainties that lurk inside the mind took hold.

The series ran from 1959-64 and was created by Rod Serling. The show was mesmerising audiences across the US when he was interviewed for Australian radio by Binny Lum. We came across this conversation in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive and it’s one of those delightful back and forths that makes you stop and listen. Serling jumps into the conversation, there’s little apprehension, and suddenly he takes you on a journey thinking about your own past and childhood, and the ultimate realisation that you simply cannot go home again — via Youtube