Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Boulter House' sold for $519K

The "Boulter House" in Clifton, designed in 1954 by famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, has been sold to the principals of a local venture capital firm.

The house at 1 Rawson Woods Circle was sold in March to Candice Matthews Brackeen and her husband, Brian Brackeen, for $519,000, according to Hamilton County property records.

The Brackeens manage Clifton-based Lightship Capital, which invests in women- and minority-owned startups and other underrepresented entrepreneurs.

The more than 2,000-square-foot, five-bedroom house was listed in 2019 for $695,000 by then owners Chuck Lohre and his wife, Janet Groeber, who told The Enquirer they spent more than a decade updating the house.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Boulter House is one of only three Frank Lloyd Wright homes built in Cincinnati during his lifetime and is an early example of his "Usonian" design – a term he coined for affordable housing.

The two-story house, which was designed for Cedric G. and Patricia Neils Boulter, is made of concrete blocks and Douglas fir timbers, and includes many of Wright's signature design features, including built-in furniture and expansive rows of floor-to-ceiling windows.