Before & After: The Epic Quest to Restore Walter J. Hall’s Legendary Lynn Hall

Walter J. Hall was the master craftsman who built Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater—but not before he built his own masterpiece.
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Before Fallingwater, there was Lynn Hall. Built between 1934 and 1935, this  early modernist structure was the creation of Walter J. Hall, who was later hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to build Fallingwater.

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