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This article originally appeared in The Buffalo News on February 17, 2017. Tens of millions of dollars into a decade-long renovation, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House is among the crown jewels in Buffalo’s resurgence in architectural tourism. Wright called the home his “opus” and considered it one of his…

This article originally appeared in Bloomberg on October 2, 2012. When Larkin Soap magnate Darwin D. Martin was ready to build his dream house in Buffalo, New York, he called on the country’s hottest young architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Finished in 1905, the 15,000-square-foot residence in the tony Parkside section…

This article originally appeared in The Globe and Mail on August 23, 2012. How do you right an architectural wrong … twice? In 1954, architect Sebastian Tauriello purchased Frank Lloyd Wright's self-described "opus," the five-building Darwin D. Martin house complex in Buffalo, N.Y., after the family abandoned it in 1937,…

This article originally appeared in The Washington Post on November 4, 2011. For fans of great architecture like me, a collection of signature early skyscrapers and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterwork have long been enough to merit a pilgrimage to Buffalo. The city’s robust industrial past, pioneering landscaping efforts by…