Volume II · The American Index
From a cliff house in Big Sur to a black A-frame in the Catskills — a small index of American homes worth the drive. Reserve any of them with a refundable $200 deposit.
Lake Delton, Wisconsin
Frank Lloyd Wright (1958)
Wright's last commission — 880 sq ft of stone, glass and cypress on the shore of Mirror Lake. One of the only Wright houses in the world the public can actually sleep in.
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$425/ night
Official site shared after deposit
Marfa, Texas
Liz Lambert / BIG (expansion)
Vintage Spartan trailers, safari tents and yurts on 21 acres of high desert. The original Marfa nomadic compound, with a 3D-printed BIG-designed expansion underway.
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$185/ night
Official site shared after deposit
Big Sur, California
Mickey Muennig (1992)
Triangular cedar tree houses on nine-foot stilts, set into the coastal forest 1,200 feet above the Pacific. Muennig's organic architecture at its purest.
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$1,650/ night
Official site shared after deposit
Canyon Point, Utah
Marwan Al-Sayed, Wendell Burnette & Rick Joy
A board-formed concrete resort folded into the slickrock of the Grand Staircase-Escalante. Pool wraps an escarpment; suites face 165 million years of sandstone.
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$3,400/ night
Official site shared after deposit
Dolores, Colorado
Restored 1885 mining ghost town
An entire abandoned silver-mining town brought back as thirteen hand-hewn log cabins. Private hot springs, wood stoves, the San Juan Mountains out every window.
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$1,800/ night
Official site shared after deposit
Greenwich Village, New York
Sean MacPherson (1900 / 2013 restoration)
A Beaux-Arts boarding house on West 8th — once home to Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce and Valerie Solanas — restored by MacPherson into one of the most quietly perfect rooms in Manhattan.
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$395/ night
Official site shared after deposit
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