Mäntylä House

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Acme, PA

The Mäntylä House is well-traveled home.  The name “Mäntylä” comes from the Finnish language and means “house among the pines.” It is also known as the RW Lindholm House, after the family who first asked Wright to design it.

Ray and Emma Lindholm were Finnish immigrants who lived in Cloquet, Minnesota. Their daughter had seen Wright’s work on display at an art museum in Minneapolis and fell in love with his style. She talked her parents into hiring the famous architect. In 1952, Ray and Emma drove all the way to Spring Green, Wisconsin to meet with Wright, who was already in his eighties. They visited him three times before the plans were finished.

The home was a classic Usonian design. It had a low, flat roof, big windows, and a wide overhang that reached out into the trees. The walls were built from concrete block, the cabinets were made from cypress wood, and the roof was covered in red clay tiles. Inside, the house was about 2,300 square feet, with built-in bookshelves and beautiful views of the Minnesota woods.

For many years, the Lindholm family and their relatives cared for the home. But the city around it began to grow, and the peaceful pine forest started to disappear. In 2016, the family decided the house needed a safer home.

In an amazing project, workers took the Mäntylä House apart piece by piece. They moved it nearly 1,000 miles to Polymath Park in Pennsylvania, not far from Wright’s famous Fallingwater. Crews spent more than two years putting it back together. Today, you can tour the house or spend the night inside this true piece of American architectural history.

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