AuthorZoeSottile, CNN
"I would appreciate it if you could design a kennel. The kennel is easy to build, but you can go with our house," Berger said in a letter. I am writing. "I want this kennel mainly for winter."
Burger wrote to Wright. Credits:Marin County
He provided Eddie's age "4 years old or dog life 28 years old" and size .. 2.5 feet high and 3 feet long.
He offered to pay the architect for the design with money from his paper root.
"House for Eddie is a chance," Wright wrote in a reply dated June 28, 1956. From November to Phoenix, Arizona. There may be something at that time.
It was the following year that the architect sent Burger a plan for a triangular doghouse, written on the back of the envelope and provided free of charge. The design features all of Wright's work and Burgers' home, such as a bass roof and exaggerated overhangs.
The kennel at the Marin County Civic Center. Credits:Marin County
However, the kennel on display is not the kennel actually used by Eddie. .. Burger's father, Robert, and his brother, Eric, built a kennel in 1963, when Berger joined the Army, six years after receiving the plan from Wright. However, according to the county, the family Labrador did not use the kennel, and in 1970 Burger's mother Gloria sent the kennel to a dump.
In 2010, Burger and Eric built another version of Wright's kennel from Wright's plan as part of the documentary "Romanza" about Wright's life. And in 2016 Burger donated a unique structure to Marin County.
The county says the kennel is the smallest structure Wright has ever designed. The architect died in 1959, just two years after mailing the design of his dog companion to Burger.