looks pretty good. i will try it out, thanks for sharing it with us :-)

Hi I've actually been to this house (I'm from Lake city, Mn which is about 10 miles south of Rochester) And I have to say that this is one of the best recreations I've seen!! Please do more

Can't wait to play it, thanks! Looks great

An FYI on hacks and lots...to really build clean lots you need to have a separate Windows account just for building with no downloads, hacks or otherwise. Stupid Maxis packaging system sucks in everything when you package up a lot :banghead:

Jen

Have you been inside the Keys house? I would like to know how it compares with the orginal floor plans. I know that they changed the car port into a guest bedroom with a bath and expanded the living room in 1971 according to "The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion" book. That book is great, but costs $90. There is a CD of the book that I have seen listed on the web for $58.

I live in Rochester, Mn. There are also a McBean and the Bulbulian house here. I was going to do the Bulbulian house next, but I think I had better practice on the simpler houses for a while as it is a multilevel split. You know half a flight up and half a flight of stairs down. There is also a FLW house in Austin, Mn, but looking at the pictures I think it would be hard to see much of it from the road.

Wouldn't that take a lot of disk space to add another copy of Sims 2 on your computer?

The Sims 2 would probably run a lot faster without all the hacks, objects, skins, paintings and neighborhoods I have downloaded...

I could also make it my FLW Sims2 copy. Can you safely delete the orginal neighborhoods that came with the game?

It doesn't add another copy of the game, just the folders that are in your "My documents" directory so it really doesn't add that much to your disk space. It plays off the same game files as your regular game. It runs *way* fast on my computer (I submit lots over at TSR), I am a total download junkie so it makes a huge difference.

I don't know if you can delete the original neighborhoods, but I don't see why not...you could always create that second account and try it there rather than on your "playing" account

Jen

I tried it last night and it works a Jenwar says. It just creates a new copy of the EA Games folder in the current user's My Documents folder. It is amazing how fast it loads without all the downloads. All your default files work are still there.

I could not load my FLW houses that I downloaded back from MTS2. It seems I am not doing the cleaning correctly or something. I made a new sims pack of each FLW house installed them in my second game and deleted all the downloads installed in the Sims2/download folder. I started the second Sims 2 and installed the FLW houses in my FLW neighborhood. I created packages of the FLW houses then stopped the game, installed the new packages, started the games and they were waiting to be moved to a neightborhood.

No one had reported any problems with the other zip files I uploaded to MTS2, but I replaced the zip files here anyway.

Well your previous post on the Dream House was nicer.

I assume from your posts that you do not know that Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the best and advanced designers of his time. He house designs were a way ahead of everyone else of his time. It is because of his designs that we have the houses today that we do.. :Slap:

I've been in the one in Austin that's gorgeous I've never been in the one in Rochester just driven past. I always thought Rochester was a very weird place for a FLW house to be lol Must have been built for a dr at the Mayo clinic lol

Is the one in Austin, Mn open to the public or were you just visiting someone?

The Keys house was built for the head librarian at Mayo Clinic. The McBean and Bulbulian house were build for doctors at the Mayo Clinic. I was suprised that there were 3 FLW houses in Rochester, Mn, also.

I spent my teenage years in Bartlesville, Ok and they have the Price Tower designed and built by FLW. It is even signed by him. I posted some pictures of it in another forum trying to get someone to build some FLW walls for me. Search on Price Tower in MTS2 and you will find them.

... ok, this is really sort of random... but I always think it's SOOO WEIRD to hear people talking about Minnesota anywhere but actually here in Minnesota... I sort of forget that the rest of the world knows we exist! lol... I've seen some of FLW's houses before, my ex boyfriend had archetects for parents and they were obsessed.... you're doing a great job at recreating them, I'm lovin' it... keep it up!

The architecture is on point. very nice. Gracias.