Waikapu, Maui ยป If circumstances had been different, the imposing rose-colored structure that stands in Waikapu, in the foothills of the West Maui Mountains, would have wound up as a vacation home for Marilyn Monroe and her playwright-husband Arthur Miller — instead of the clubhouse that’s the centerpiece of The King Kamehameha Golf Club.
In 1957, the jet-setting couple asked renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design an escape for them near rustic Roxbury, Conn.
Wright brought out a design he’d tried to build twice before — once in 1949 as a luxury residence for a wealthy family in Fort Worth, Texas; three years later as a home on the cliffs of Acapulco Bay for a Mexican Cabinet official. Both projects had been abandoned.
For the Monroe-Miller retreat, Wright revised the drawings to include, among other features, a cinema with a film vault, a nursery and a swimming pool with a gentle slope leading to a running brook. (more…)
