Broad Margin is the name given to the private residence originally commissioned by Gabrielle and Charlcey Austin. It is located in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and was built by local builder Harold T. Newton in 1954.[2][3] It is one of two buildings designed by Wright in South Carolina (the other being the Auldbrass Plantation).
The house is built into the slope of the 2-acre (0.81 ha) lot. It has 12-inch-thick (30 cm) concrete walls. It extensively uses cypress wood throughout including its ceiling of cypress boards. The house has polished red concrete floors. Copper tubes are embedded in the concrete floors to heat the house using hot water.
The cypress furniture was designed for the house. The doors and window frames were constructed on-site of cypress. The hardware is solid brass.
^Pittenger, Nancy; Sims, E. Thomas (April 5, 1988). "Broad Margin". Historic American Buildings Survey. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN0-226-77621-2 (S.345)
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