Frank Lloyd Wright's only building in Utah sits midway down a steep canyon wall above Bountiful, with long views west toward the Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island. Donald and Jane Stromquist commissioned Wright to design the house in 1958, near the end of his career. Construction began the following year and was completed after Wright's death by Taliesin Associated Architects.

The house is a particularly intact example of Wright's Usonian ideas adapted to a dramatic western landscape. Its plan is organized on a geometric grid of 60- and 120-degree angles, producing a series of parallelograms that appear throughout the house, from the concrete floor to the wood detailing overhead. Salmon-colored concrete block, Philippine mahogany, steel and expansive glazing create a palette that is both earthy and distinctly modern.

Wright carefully oriented the rooms to light and view: the living room faces the setting sun, while bedrooms and the study receive morning light. Rather than sitting prominently on top of its site, the house settles into the slope—an unusually literal expression of Wright's belief that architecture should grow from its surroundings.

After years of neglect, the house was restored beginning in 1989 with assistance from Taliesin Associated Architects. The Stromquists eventually repurchased it, returning late in life to the house they had commissioned as a young couple.