From Millstone to Crystal Bridges

The house was carefully restored by Lawrence and Sarah Tarantino, who bought the house in 1988 and received awards for their preservation efforts that took nearly 20 years. Crystal Bridges – founded and chaired by Alice Walton, heir to her father's Wal-Mart fortune, who commissioned Moshe Safdie to design the museum – bought the house for $1.5 million with the intent of moving it to its 120-acre (48-hectare) grounds. In its new setting the house will extend the museum's public programs and serve educational purposes through a partnership with the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture.