James B. Christie House

40°45′19″N 74°33′29″W / 40.755264°N 74.558182°W / 40.755264; -74.558182Construction started1940Technical detailsFloor area2,000 sq ft (190 m²)Design and constructionArchitect(s)Frank Lloyd Wright

The James B. Christie House is a large, flat-roofed Usonian on a wooded site in Bernardsville, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The Christie House, built in 1940, is Frank Lloyd Wright's oldest and, at 2,000 square feet (190 m²), Wright's largest house in New Jersey. The residence has one story and is made of brick, cypress, and redwood.

It is designed in an L-shaped plan with a rectangular living room and a dining area that is perpendicular to a wing with three bedrooms and three baths. The kitchen is in the corner of the L, like a hinge connecting the two sections, separating public from private areas. The flat roof with its overhanging soffit reinforces the sprawling horizontal design.

Wright advised James B. Christie, his first New Jersey client, to select a setting that has "as much individuality as to topography and features—stream, trees, etc. and as much freedom from adjacent buildings as is possible."

See also

• List of Frank Lloyd Wright works

References

• Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 (S.278)

External links

• Mr. and Mrs. James Bryan Christie House, Bernardsville, New Jersey, Exterior perspective from southwest. 1940. Graphite and color pencil on tracing paper, 18 × 35½" (45.7 × 90.2 cm). Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. © 2008 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
• Mr. and Mrs. James Bryan Christie House, Bernardsville, New Jersey, Exterior perspective from east. 1940. Graphite and color pencil on tracing paper, 18 × 35½" (45.7 × 90.2 cm). Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
• Photos on Arcaid