These are things to check out in and around Springfield while you are home. Make sure you read Gene Barnett’s email at the end of this section.
- Tour of the Wescott House (Frank Lloyd Wright)
- Tour of Wright Patterson Air Force Base Museum
- Walking tour of the Downtown area
- The Heritage Center
- The Hartman Rock Garden
- Trip to Yellowsprings
- Tour of Ferncliff
Walking Tours – Email from Gene Barnett
Walking tours are set up every year by the Westcott House’s Executive Director Marta Wojcik and her husband historian Kevin Rose. The home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1906, built for $15,000.00 and finished in 1908.
Burton Westcott built custom touring cars in Springfield that sold from $2,000 to $3,000 each. There is a Westcott car in the Heritage Center downtown in the farmers market/city building built in 1890 for $258,000.
There will be a couple of downtown tours possibly three over the summer of 2022. The tours are very interesting and well worth your time.
The Westcott House in Springfield is Frank Lloyd Wright’s only Prairie home located in Ohio. There are still over 440 homes in the U.S that Wright designed.
The Westcott House is well worth touring and now that we are “Seniors” we save $3.00 on admission for the 1.5 hour tour. Only $15.00 per person.
Actually, I could conduct the tours because I have been a docent since the Westcott House opened in October 2005.
https://www.westcotthouse.org
Very Respectfully,
Gene Barnett
North High School Class of 1972.
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