Frank Lloyd Wright's Walker House on the granite of Carmel Point, its glass prow facing the sea
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As Enduring as the Rocks: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only House on the Ocean

In 1945, widowed artist Della Walker asked Frank Lloyd Wright for a house “as enduring as the rocks but as transparent and charming as the waves.” The Cabin on the Rocks on Carmel Point — his only house on the ocean — answered her letter, and stayed in her family for seven decades.