306 Glen Way, Jackson, Mississippi. County/parish: Hinds.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 28, 1980. NRIS 80002246.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Fountainhead (also known as the J. Willis Hughes House) is a house at 306 Glenway Drive in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It was designed in the Usonian style by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the family of the oil businessman J. Willis Hughes. The house is arranged in a Y shape and is made of Tidewater red cypress, copper, glass, and concrete. The floor plan is arranged around a grid of 30-60-90 triangles, which create a grid of rhombuses. The interior consists of a living-room wing facing northeast, a carport wing facing southeast, and a bedroom wing facing west toward a fountain.
Hughes hired Wright to design the house in 1948, it was built between 1950 and 1954. During development, Hughes named the house Fountainhead, a reference to both the fountain outside the bedroom wing and Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead. He lived there for 25 years, but the building fell into disrepair after Hughes's wife died in 1964. The architect Robert Parker Adams bought the house in 1979 and restored it, living there for over 45 years before placing it for sale in 2025. The house, one of Wright's few designs to be constructed in Mississippi, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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