The Snowflake Motel By: Frank Lloyd Wright & William Wesley Peter
3822 Red Arrow Highway
Saint Joseph, Michigan 49085 U.S.A.
I drove by the old Snowflake Motel completed in 1962 it has been closed for 1 or 2 years and what I saw disturbed me.
Someone is tearing it down as I write this. I took a few of the last pictures that will ever be taken of this work of art.
Take a look at the pictures. I will be filming the destruction of this work of art and post more pictures soon.
Today (03.30.2006) I talked to the contractors who are tearing the Snowflake down and they say the main office & bar
with the iron structure in front will stay.
All other buildings will be torn down and a shopping center will be erected. (So they say?)
- Michael - 03.29.2006
UPDATE! 02/2007
The Snowflake Motel is Completely Gone!
They tore it all down
Frank Lloyd Wright - Snow Flake Motel, St. Joseph, Michigan 49085
Click on photo for larger view
This structure is
suppose to stay
So they say? It didn't
Where the Snowflake Motel is/was located
3822 Red Arrow Highway
St Joseph, MI 49085
Satellite Photos of the Snowflake Motel. St. Joseph, Michigan
Photographs by: Michael
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Architectural Record. June, 1965
Snow Flake Motel - St. Joseph, Michigan 49085
Architects: Taliesin Associated Architects, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Roofing Contactor: Baroda Hardware Co. Baroda, Michigan
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