Frank Lloyd Wright house is for sale in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE (AP) - A Frank Lloyd Wright house has been put on the market Milwaukee.

It's one of six houses on the south side known as the American System-Built Homes, which Wright did as part of his lifelong pursuit of providing affordable housing for low-income residents.

They were produced from factory-cut materials assembled onsite.

Jillayne and Dave Arena bought the building when it was a duplex 30 years ago. Jillayne Arena has said they put hundreds of thousands of dollars into making it a one-family home and preserving it, after it had been a rental property.

The three-bedroom house is listed at just under $200,000. It was built around 1916.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Dave Arena is selling it because he has taken a job in Iowa.

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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