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Fountainhead (also known as the J. Willis Hughes House) is a house at 306 Glenway Drive in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Designed in the Usonian style by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the family of the oil businessman J. Willis Hughes, it 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, and 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 the 1943 novel The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand. 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 selling it to the Mississippi Museum of Art 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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Fountainhead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1980.
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Fountainhead is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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