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Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
Architecture Puzzler #242
Question
True or False:
a. Mortar droppings should be wiped off of walls or floors before hardening.
b. The “Little House Living Room” by Frank Lloyd Wright is only 12- by 16-feet (3.6- by 4.9 meters) and was put on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Answer
a. False — Mortar should be allowed to harden slightly, then removed with a trowel, putty knife, or chisel.
b. False/True — The living room was originally built for Mr. and Mrs. Francis Little of Minnesota in 1912, thus the name “Little House.” The living room is not at all small; it's a 55-foot- (17-meter-) long room with sweeping bands of clear and opaque art glass. When the house was slated for demolition in the early 1970s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City purchased the building and placed the living room on display on the ground floor of its American Wing.
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