Broad Margin
Broad Margin is the name given to the private residence originally commissioned by Gabrielle and Charlcey Austin. It is located in Greenville, South Carolina, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and was built in 1954. It is one of two buildings designed by Wright in South Carolina.
It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The house is built into the slope of the lot. It has concrete walls. It extensively uses cypress wood throughout including its ceiling of cypress boards. The house has polished red concrete floors. Copper tubes are embedded in the concrete floors to heat the house using hot water.
The cypress furniture was designed for the house. The doors and window frames were constructed on-site of cypress. The hardware is solid brass.
The house was documented with photographs and written historical data by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1988.
