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Centenarian Roland Reisley \u201946, BA \u201945, has resided in the Hudson Valley home for more than seven decades<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a Thursday in mid-April, and a resident of New York\u2019s Westchester County is giving a tour of his home\u2014one he has occupied for the past 73 years. \u201cWhen you enter a Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a> building, without exception, it is through a compressed entryway, with a low ceiling,\u201d explains Roland Reisley \u201946, BA \u201945, walking from the hallway toward the living room at the house\u2019s center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd when you emerge from the corridor, that compression is released and the expansion occurs in each of the rooms, giving you a greater sense of each of those spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reisley holds a photo of himself and his late wife with Wright.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Arts & Sciences alum is now in his spacious living room\u2014a stunning, hexagonal, wood-and-stone-lined space whose design ethos extends through the ample windows to the patio, yard, and wooded surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an exquisite view, but one Reisley is used to\u2014and he has given a version of this tour countless times before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the age of nearly 101 (his birthday is in May), Reisley is the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright who’s still living in the home that the legendary architect designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hexagonal living room features cypress walls, a huge stone fireplace, and natural light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In 1952, Reisley and his wife, Rosalyn \u201cRonny\u201d Sachs Reisley \u201947, BA \u201946, moved into the house\u2014and lived there together for more than half a century, until her passing in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn recent years, because I\u2019m old\u2014and people fuss about the fact that I\u2019m old\u2014the house has gotten a little extra attention,\u201d Reisley says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany of my friends will say, \u2018I have a good friend who\u2019s interested in architecture. Can I bring them in?\u2019 And I always say yes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wright sketches a design in the Reisley home, as Roland and Ronny look on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The home is one of four dozen in Usonia, a hilly, wooded community in the town of Pleasantville, about 30 miles north of NYC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wright, who served as the supervising architect for the 100-acre community, believed that houses should be integrated into the landscape\u2014that they should be of<\/em> the land, rather than simply on<\/em> it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In recent years, because I\u2019m old\u2014and people fuss about the fact that I\u2019m old\u2014the house has gotten a little extra attention.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He personally designed three of Usonia\u2019s homes, including Reisley\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Reisley: \u201cWright envisioned, and we have largely maintained, a wooded enclave with beautiful homes scattered like jewels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wright, who lived from 1867\u20131959, enjoyed a seven-decade career that produced such seminal buildings as Fallingwater, the Robie House, the Guggenheim Museum, and Taliesin, to name just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dramatic cantilevered carport is a notable feature.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 1991, the American Institute of Architects named him the greatest U.S. architect of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wright\u2019s philosophy and influence led to the widespread embrace of open-concept plans featuring free-flowing interior spaces and buildings that were less like \u201cboxes inside boxes,\u201d and more in harmony with their surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His single-story \u201cUsonian\u201d homes<\/a>\u2014which Wright designed late in his career, during and after the Depression\u2014represented his vision of a more affordable form of organic architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The curtains are original\u2014though Reisley rarely closes them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While Reisley\u2019s Pleasantville development was the only fully realized Usonian community, Wright designed dozens of other such houses\u2014featuring flat roofs, ample natural light, open floor plans, overhangs, carports, radiant heating delivered via concrete flooring, and as much natural material as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wright envisioned, and we have largely maintained, a wooded enclave with beautiful homes scattered like jewels.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll the angles in the house are based on a hexagonal system,\u201d says Reisley, continuing the tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith this angular system, you get both 120-degree angles and 60-degree angles. You can\u2019t have one without the other; that\u2019s how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He gestures to the interior stone fireplace and walls, which continue directly to the outside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Roland
The Cornellian<\/em><\/figcaption>
Reisley in the 1945 yearbook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cYou see how the glass goes into the stone; he didn\u2019t want to interrupt it with additional moldings or separations. It\u2019s to preserve the sense of one full, organic, inside and outside piece.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A physics major on the Hill, Reisley did some doctoral work in the field before going into the electronic instruments business, working with Hewlett Packard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He later helped overseas firms market technology products in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, he and Ronny had married and were living in Manhattan, thinking of starting a family.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe wanted to put down roots someplace,\u201d Reisley says. \u201cWe were looking around; if we saw something we liked, we couldn\u2019t afford it. If we could afford it, we didn\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They visited the new Usonia development\u2014which then had just 10 homes. As he recalls: \u201cThe enthusiasm of these people for what they were creating here, in this new modern world, was so infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The kitchen sink offers a view through a hexagonal window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The newlyweds took the money they\u2019d received for their honeymoon and instead used it to buy into the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you joined, you selected a site and an architect\u2014either Frank Lloyd Wright, or one of five or six architects that he approved,\u201d Reisley says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe ordinary people did not dream of approaching Frank Lloyd Wright.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\u2014to the couple\u2019s delight and amazement\u2014after Wright saw their plot of land and learned more about them, he offered to design their home personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had a remarkable relationship with him,\u201d Reisley says. \u201cPeople may have heard that he was arrogant, egocentric, not a nice person; that his roofs leak, his houses cost too much. But that obscures awareness of the hundreds of wonderful buildings he designed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, Reisley was 26, and Wright was 84.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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A snapshot on the fridge shows Wright with Ronny and two of the Reisley children. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMaybe it was a May\u2013December kind of thing,\u201d Reisley muses. \u201cMaybe he sensed, \u2018Here\u2019s a young person who\u2019s enthusiastically supportive.\u2019 But one way or another, he became a mentor and a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Reisleys even found that Wright was amenable to their feedback\u2014as when they realized their home\u2019s plans lacked bookshelves and a broom closet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With trepidation, Reisley went to see him about it\u2014\u201cIt was not so easy; it was like talking to God\u201d\u2014and was relieved by Wright\u2019s attitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dining room includes a Wright-designed table that echoes the house’s angles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cCome on Roland\u2014you\u2019re my client, I\u2019m your architect,\u201d Reisley recalls him saying. \u201cI\u2019ll redesign your house as many times as I have to until I\u2019ve satisfied all of your needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Wright\u2019s death at 91, he worked with the Reisleys once more: to accommodate their growing family, he designed an expansion that doubled the original 1,200 square feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The home has proved sturdy over the decades, Reisley says, needing only typical maintenance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You\u2019re my client, I\u2019m your architect. I\u2019ll redesign your house as many times as I have to until I\u2019ve satisfied all of your needs.<\/p>\nFrank Lloyd Wright<\/strong> to Roland Reisley \u201946, BA \u201945<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The cypress walls have required a single washing and waxing; the stone exterior has undergone some repointing; and the living room ceiling was recently painted for a second time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many residents of Wright houses, Reisley has become something of an expert on its creator, welcoming countless architects, historians, students, and other visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And in fact, he attributes his own long life\u2014at least in part\u2014to the house and its surroundings, which have allowed him to view something beautiful every day.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A bathroom boasts a view of the wooded landscape.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reisley eventually co-founded the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy<\/a>, which facilitates the maintenance and preservation of Wright\u2019s surviving structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2001, he cowrote a history titled Usonia, NY: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while Reisley has visited many Wright buildings around the country, he believes that Pleasantville\u2019s Usonia remains something special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A small portrait of Wright is on display in the very spot where it was taken.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The neighborhood began with many young families, who formed close bonds\u2014and turnover was rare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, in its first four decades, only 12 homes changed hands\u2014half of them to the next generation of the same family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe sense of connection to this community was so powerful,\u201d Reisley says, \u201cthat nobody wanted to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(All images by Joe Wilensky \/ Cornell University, unless otherwise indicated.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published April 24, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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