The Last Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Park Inn Hotel
The Last Wright is an American documentary film.
It is the first project in any media focusing on the only surviving hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
It was produced by Travelfilm Company and McMar, Ltd/ 28 and was produced and written by Garry McGee and Lucille Carra and directed by Lucille Carra.
Meticulously researched and filmed over a seven- year period, the film is the only video record of the distressed condition of the hotel.
The film explores the history of the Mason City Bank and Hotel Commission( 1908) as well as the struggles of the rural city of Mason City, Iowa to restore the Park Inn Hotel, which, along with the City National Bank, was a rare example of a Prairie School style mixed- use structure by Wright.
Taking a highly contextual approach, the film deals in depth with the changing social, cultural and economic conditions in Mason City from 1908 to the present, which places the hotel's decline in historical context.
The narrative occasionally travels away from the Mason City story and compares the degraded Park Inn Hotel to familiar Wright masterpieces, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Oak Park Wright residences, The Lowell E. Walter House( Cedar Rock) in Quasqueton, Iowa.
Comparisons are made to demolished Wright hotels and to the partially restored Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, now moved to Meiji Mura Museum.
Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
The Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a historic two- story house in West Hollywood, California, U.S..
It was built in 1927.
It was designed by architect Lloyd Wright a son of Frank Lloyd Wright.
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 6, 1987.
Park Inn Hotel
The Historic Park Inn Hotel and City National Bank are two adjacent commercial buildings located in downtown Mason City, Iowa, United States which were designed in the Prairie School style by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Completed in 1910, the Park Inn Hotel is the last remaining Frank Lloyd Wright- designed hotel in the world, of the six for which he was the architect of record.
The City National Bank is one of only two remaining Frank Lloyd Wright- designed banks in the world.
It was the first Frank Lloyd Wright- designed project in the state of Iowa, and today carries both major architectural and historical significance.
In 1999, the Park Inn Hotel was named on the Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance's Most Endangered Properties List.
The Park Inn Hotel was the third hotel designed by Wright and served as the prototype for Midway Gardens in Chicago and the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, which was torn down in 1968.
In 1907, when law partners James E. Blythe and J. E. E. Markley were looking for an architect to compete in quality with the eight- story bank building that would be built across the corner, they did n't hesitate to give the commission to Frank Lloyd Wright, a young architect who was building a reputation in the Chicago area.
For them Wright would build a complex, multi-purpose building that would give them multiple income streams.
Their law offices would be on the second floor of the building's narrower central waist and the hotel's east wing, surrounded on the south by a two- story banking room with rental office space above.
On the north would be a 42- room hotel, with basement shops beneath the bank and hotel.
Wright managed to pack all these functions into an aesthetically well- integrated building that architecturally would be the bridge between Wright's Prairie School period and his Midway Gardens and the Imperial Hotel to follow.
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a historic house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
It has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust to its appearance in 1909, the last year Frank Lloyd Wright lived there with his family.
Frank Lloyd Wright purchased the property and built the home in 1889 with a$ 5,000 loan from his employer Louis Sullivan.
He was 22 at the time, and recently married to Catherine Tobin.
The Wrights raised six children in the home.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and declared a National Historic Landmark four years later.
Rollin Furbeck House
Rollin Furbeck House is a Frank Lloyd Wright design house in Oak Park, Illinois that was built in 1897.
It is part of the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District.
Eric Lloyd Wright
Eric Lloyd Wright( born November 8, 1929) is an American architect, son of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. and the grandson of the famed Frank Lloyd Wright.
Laura Gale House
The Laura Gale House, also known as the Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House, is a home in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States.
The house was designed by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1909.
It is located within the boundaries of the Frank Lloyd Wright- Prairie School of Architecture Historic District and has been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since March 5, 1970.
Park Inn (disambiguation)
Park Inn by Radisson, formerly Park Inn or Park Inn International, is a multi-national hotel chain that originates from the United States.
It may also refer to the following notable subjects:
Brandes House
The Ray Brandes House is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home located at 2202 212th Avenue SE, Sammamish, Washington
It was constructed in 1952.
The home is constructed in Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian style which is designed to create flow between nature, the home and its interior.
It is one of the better preserved examples of this style, and one of three homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Washington State.
Landscaping was selected from local flora and fauna, typical of Frank Lloyd Wright's preference.
Greased Lightning
Greased Lightning is a 1977 American biographical film starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz.
The film is loosely based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first African American NASCAR race winner and 2015 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee.

Question: Are both movies, The Last Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright And The Park Inn Hotel and Greased Lightning, from the same country?
Answer: yes