“During heavy rains, water would come over the spouts,” so her father would send his children up the ladder to the roof and they would use pails to redistribute the pebbles that had pooled in the middle where two slopes met. “We had this ladder on the side of the house,” she recalled. The Ghorys’ gently sloping roof was covered with little stones, and its downspout system struggled during downpours, Partricia Ghory said. Modern architects of the time also thought flat and gently sloping rooflines were best, but hindsight has proved they might not have been. It was what allergists of the time like her father thought was best. “We had this huge fan on a stand, and we’d turn it on and the air would swirl,” she recalled. Ghory believed good air circulation promoted better health, his daughter said.
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Like Fallingwater, the Ghorys’ house had no air conditioning (it does now), yet Dr. … My husband said ‘Patty, you’re not giving the tour!’” “The kitchen, the free-standing dresser drawers, the cork floors. “My husband and I went through Fallingwater and I said, ‘This is our house,’” Ghory said. A visit to Wright’s iconic Fallingwater house in Western Pennsylvania triggered that memory. She also recalled good times spent at a table in the house’s compact kitchen (a Frank Lloyd Wright standard), looking out the window to the up-sloping backyard. Ghory cherishes a vivid image of her mother regularly taking a double-bristle brush polisher to those floors, now mostly black with traces of red showing through. That floor treatment continues in the screened dining porch beyond the living room. Floors in the foyer and living room have radiant-heated floors made of 2-by-2-foot concrete sections painted in Cherokee Red, the color made famous by Frank Lloyd Wright, whose work the architects greatly admired. Strauss & Associates’ design came close to providing. She said her father wanted an allergy-proof home, which the Carl A. It wasn’t big by any means for the five of us kids to be there,” Ghory said of the 3,000-square-foot house. The fourth of Joseph and Mary Ghory’s five children, Hyde Park allergist Patricia Ghory, remembers the house for its enclosed play yard’s aluminum swing set, sandbox and whirligig as much as she does the many events her parents hosted that spilled out from the house into its screened porch and spacious back and front patios. Ghory, a leading allergist whose walking was limited by polio, was one of the Cincinnati progressives who liked Strauss and Roush’s mostly stair-free, sharp-cut homes that brought the outdoors in through large windows.
“There is an elegance … they are always quiet and never overdone, very subtle, very pleasant. “If you think of Modern homes and all the features they usually have, he did beautiful designs all over the United States from an aesthetic and functional standpoint,” Garcia said of Strauss. Strauss & Associates prior to Roush’s arrival, is the better known of the two architects and may have had the heavier hand in designing the 1951 Stevenson Lane house, which local architect Jose Garcia remodeled and added to in 2003. CINCINNATI - Strauss is the house among Cincinnati fans of mid-century Modern design, and one of the earliest of its kind - a four-bedroom East Walnut Hills ranch built in 1951 - will have its third owner if a pending sale goes through (the asking price as $793,000).Ĭincinnati Modernist architects Carl Strauss and Ray Roush teamed up in the late 1940s and quickly became popular among progressive Cincinnatians drawn to the simple, human-sized homes that the two married to wooded and hillside lots in some of the region’s most desirable neighborhoods.
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