Frank Lloyd Wright's GINGERBREAD HOUSE, THELOSTBLOGS.COM, FDN# 4105.632

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I have entered my 90th year here on Nature's great earth.  I don't know how many years I have left, but I've accomplished a lot in my lifetime as an architect.  There is a great secret I must share with you all though.  A secret I have never told anyone else in the world.  Not even my dearest Olga.  A few years ago, during a particularly lonely holiday season, I sat down to design a building.

I plopped down at my drafting table and imagined a building like none I have ever designed before.  I sketched and I sketched until finally I had something absolutely perfect to work with.  It reminded me of my Prairie Houses.  I gathered up materials (though without an oven, graham crackers had to suffice), and I locked myself up in my office to build.  In all my years in the business, I had never built a building by myself before.  I always had a helping hand.  This would be the first structure I would single-handedly create from design to the finished product.  I toiled away until the wee hours of the morning until finally, it was finshed.  My most magnificent house.  The building and unique design was something deeply personal that I wanted to keep for myself, and so I locked it up safely away in my archives.  Unil now.

My beloved readers, you have been with me for over fifty years, and now, I have a gift especially for you. Behold, my finest building...

Gingerbread House.

Unfortunately, it too was destroyed by fire.  While I was taking pictures.  I should have kept it in the safe.

With All My Love,

Frank Lloyd Wright

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