Name: Maxmillian Hoffman House    Alternate Name:   Address:   Mailing Address:   City: Rye  State: New York  Postal Code:   Country: UNITED STATES  Latitude/Longitude: lat=40.980556; long=-73.684167 Find Gardens Nearby Phone:   Fax:   E-Mail:   Contact:   Designer(s): Garden: Stephen Morrell; House: Frank Lloyd Wright (1955)  Admission:   Added to JGarden: 3/2/2002  Last Updated: 3/2/2002  Sources:   JGarden Description: This Frank Lloyd Wright designed house was the home of Maximilian Hoffman. The Japanese-inspired garden was designed by Stephen Morrell, the curator of the John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden

With the south wind a gentle goddess came. She soaked the bronze, she soaked the fountain, She soaked the swallow's belly and its feathers of gold. She hugged the tide, lapped the sand, drank the fish. Secretly she soaked the temple, the bath-house, the theatre, The confusion of her platinum lyre --   the tongue of the goddess -- secretly. Soaked my tongue.   Nishiwaki Junzaburô   trans. by Bownas and Thwaite   20th century