S.412.1 – Walter & Mary Ellen Rudin Residence, 110 Martinette Trail, Madison, Wisconsin LINK TO DISCUSSION OF MARSHALL ERDMAN PREFABRICATED HOMES Photographed on August 28, 2009. The house was built for two university professors who are since retired – but still living here as of 2009. I talked with a tradesman who told me the interior of the house had never been updated, and everything is exactly as first designed. He was renovating the bathroom, which had red rubber floor tiles. He was matching the color exactly, having gone through several vendors before finding the right color. He told me the bathroom floor did not have heating pipes under it. Oddly, he knew the house only as a Marshall Erdman home – he knew Erdman worked with Wright, but didn’t know Wright had actually designed this prefab. For the third edition of his guidebook, Prof. Storrer treats each prefab design as a separate number, and each completed construction of that design as a sub-number. Thus, this basic design is S.412, while the executed plan for Mr. & Mrs. Rudin is designated as S.412.1. The same design was used in Minnesota for the McBean residence (S.412.2).

Revised 10/09/2012