"Birdwing" (Minnetonka, Minnesota)

 property, Prairie School (architecture)

2410 Oakland Rd, Minnetonka, MN 55305

www.birdsongmn.com/
www.curbed.com/2014/10/15/10035360/lloyd-wright-birdson...

Since 1976, the James Rupp estate; he put the whole thing up for sale in 2016, with an eye on the potential for a new owner to add 9 new houses to the lot while preserving the house.

James M. Rupp was a past-president of WCCO-TV in Minneapolis and a director of King World Productions, TV producer Roger King's production house that became a leading distributor of popular syndicated television programming. He was a debater at Idaho State University from 1954-1957; he and his wife Sharon E. Rupp endowed the school's debate team.

The 11.5 acre parcel has a 6500 sq ft single family home architecturally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Jr (better known as Lloyd Wright) and constructed in 1965. The home was originally planned for the first-ring suburb of Edina, but the decision was made to push it to the then-far less developed Minnetonka area for a larger piece of land. Lloyd Wright was not present for the construction or any of the tweaks needed to move it to the Minnetonka site and it was completed by a local architect. The last time the property was sold was in 1976 to James M. Rupp.


SOURCES:
Property info/past sales:
www.zillow.com/homedetails/2410-Oakland-Rd-Minnetonka-M...

Property line:
gis.co.hennepin.mn.us/property/map/
PID=1011722240007
www.edinarealty.com/

Property owner:
www16.co.hennepin.mn.us/pins/pidresult.jsp?pid=10117222...

Owner info:
articles.latimes.com/1992-01-10/business/fi-1785_1_king...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_King_(producer)
www.isu.edu/debate/rupp.shtml