A hometown newspaper with a local office, local owners & lots of local news
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Almost three years after it was dismantled, and moved brick by brick from Cloquet to Pennsylvania, the R.W. Lindholm House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is open for business.
The R.W. Lindholm House — known as Mäntylä, Finnish for “under the pines” — was commissioned by the same family that built Cloquet’s Wright-designed gas station.
In 2016, Peter and Julene McKinney donated the home and much of the Wright-designed furnishings to the nonprofit group Usonian Preservation, with the intention of relocating it to Polymath Park in Acme, Penn. The park is home to one other Wright home, along with two homes designed by Wright apprentice Peter Berndtson.
Peter McKinney was part of the third generation of the Lindholm family to own the Cloquet home.
According to news reports, it took a small crew 9,000-some man hours to reconstruct Mäntylä.
Properties in Polymath Park are open for day tours, events and overnight accommodations.
Two of Wright’s most famous homes, Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob, are located nearby but not in the park.
When Mäntylä was in Cloquet, it was a family home, although occasionally the public was invited there for events. The new Members Cooperative Credit Union building was built on the site where the home used to stand east of Pine Valley Park.
