September 9, 2013 – The Iowa City home of Roland & Marilyn Wehner – located on Highway 1 north of Iowa City – is designated for the National Register of Historic Places.
Designed and built in 1959 by Iowa City architect Roland Wehner, the home is built of Anamosa stone and California redwood, and inspiration for the house’s design came from Frank Lloyd Wright, an architect whose work Wehner has admired since his college days in the early 1950’s.
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