While helping their friends move to Ellensburg, Washington, Scott
and Emily Faulkner fell in love with a midcentury home there. Designed
by architect James Cowan in 1957, the house nodded to Frank Lloyd
Wright's Usonian style, with its L-shaped plan, native materials, flat
roof, clerestory windows, and large cantilevered overhang for passive
solar heating and cooling. Before ...