Snow Flake Motel

Snow Flake Motel

Lawrence Technological University

January 9, 2015

Taliesin Associated Architects

Peters, William Wesley

O’Connor, Thomas (photograph)

American

Single Built Works

July, 1965

Michigan (state)

Saint Joseph (inhabited place)

Modern (styles and periods)

motels

exterior lighting

Exterior view of light post with pool area in background at the Snow Flake Motel in St. Joseph, Michigan built in the early 1960's. "Architects for the Taliesin Fellowship, a group founded and inspired by Wright, designed the snowflake-shaped building in the early 60s. No one knows exactly how much input if any Wright had in the design of the hotel, but one former owner claims that the architect inspected the vacant site from an airplane shortly before his death in 1959. According to legend, he gave the land and the project his blessing … When the motel opened in 1962, Sarkisian put "Frank Lloyd Wright" at the top of the Snow Flake's roadside sign, above the motel's name. Yet much of the motel's design was the work of William Wesley Peters, Wright's chief apprentice,"--The Snow Flake Motel struggles to regain its past glory, by Dan Rafter in The Chicago Reader, June 19, 1998.

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