The plan of this house is based on Wright's "A Fireproof house for $5,000", published in the April, 1907 edition of Ladies Home Journal.  Wright and others who worked with him, notably Walter Burley Griffin and John Van Bergen, used this plan many times – it was an economical plan which was capable of simple exterior variations that created very different looking results.

Mr Hunt later purchased another Wright design, an American Systems Built house in Oskosh, Wisconsin.