Located roughly two miles north of the University of Virginia in the Greenbrier neighborhood of Charlottesville, the Thomas and Alena Hammond House was designed in 1962 by Herbert Fritz, Jr., an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright. Constructed of wood, fieldstone, and glass, the one-story house embodies the distinctive characteristics of “Wrightian” architecture, apparent in its open floor plan, central hearth, cantilevered roof, and organic materials and forms that blur the line between interior and exterior space. Based in Wisconsin, Fritz is noted for his residential and commercial designs in the Madison vicinity and the Midwest – the Hammond House was his only commission in the state of Virginia. The Hammonds worked closely with the architect, collaborating on the design and finishes of the house to best fit their needs, while landscape architect Milton Meade Palmer shaped the surrounding site. The Hammond House encapsulates Fritz’s aesthetic principles and bears direct influence from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian designs, marking a dramatic departure from the historicist architecture that prevailed throughout Virginia during the first half of the 20th century.