A Prairie-Style Home

This waterfront home in Hudson on the Willow River lies low on the land. The modern Prairie-style design, echoing Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architecture, harmonizes easily with its setting. In fact, surrounded by water on its peninsula site, it feels as much like a luxury yacht as a house.

Bruce Lenzen Design/Build brought the home to fruition working primarily long distance with its Texas-based owners. The couple, longtime residents of Hastings, purchased the site in 2015 and knew Lenzen’s work from previous tours. “We always had the pleasure of meeting him and liked his design aesthetic,” she says.

With water shimmering behind them, visitors enter the home’s great room to face a mesmerizing view of the opposite shore through multi-paneled, sliding-glass doors and clerestory windows. From the great room to dining area to kitchen to bar to porch to terrace, “the whole space opens up,” says Lenzen. “It all just flows from inside to out.”