. >> finally tonight he may be america's most famous name in architecture, frank lloyd wright but his homes aren't just museums. right now 19 of them are on the housing market. as dean reynold reports, some are easier to look at than live in. >> the wood never gets wet. >> reporter: this is the third summer that juan and claire montenegro are trying to sell their illinois home. >> are these the original floors. >> from here back to the end of the gyneing room they are the original floors. >> for 20 years they've loved it here, inside and out. >> you have to keep it brownish? >> yeah, we wouldn't think of going to any other color. >> reporter: that's because this is a frank lloyd wright house. with its wide open spaces, its use of natural colors, lots of natural light, and signature windows. these homes are iconic so you don't mess with them. >> i think it's beautiful the way that it is and i wouldn't want to change a thing. >> reporter: you can alter the back or sides of a frank lloyd wright house but not the front, unless you want enraged preservationists showing up on your doorstep.

>> yeah. >> reporter: that's because this is a frank lloyd wright house.ts wide open space, its use of natural colors, lots of natural light, and signature windows. these homes are iconic, so you don't mess with them. >> i think it's beautiful the way it is, but you don't want to change a thing. >> reporter: you can alter the backs or sides of a frank lloyd wright house, but not the front unless you want enraged preservationists showing up on your doorstep. they bring on special buyers but they're not always an easy sell. >> i think frank lloyd wright owners make the mistake of selling too high and we were guilty of that. there is a certain segment of people that love these homes. it is a house to be lived in. it's not a museum. >> reporter: no, it is not, but it is a magnet for visitors. >> we've had people from as far away as japan and italy. it's just been really fun talking to them. >> reporter: there's also a 1987 wright house for sale two blocks from president obama's home in chicago. it can be had for $2.4 million. and there's this one from 1892 als

we have a lot of frank lloyd wright buildings in the area. you have the beautiful park hotel over there. one of my favorite architects was fuller. brainy kind of guy. he always came up with good quotes. one of my favorites was " if you don't know where you're going, any plan will do. " that is kind of what we have been doing in the legislature. , we have no plan, and when we come up with skewed solutions, we wonder why. i think a classic for the is thes in the audience education reform package that passed after being bounced back- had to test the teachers more and test the kids more, we had to do this, we had to do that. maybe it will do some good. missed the that, we number one cause of poor performance in academia. that is low parental incomes. if you look in the department of education website, there is a lastreport, probably the report to come out. it shows the difference between kids that are eligible for free breakfast and those kids that are not, middle income, upper incomes. spread in 20% academic achievement for reading , math, and a

>> i think so. [ applause ] >> >> osgood: thomas jefferson's monticello, frank lloyd wright's fallingip johnson's glass house, all examples of fine home building, martha teichner introduces us to another master of the craft. >> it is two and a half stories, the dorm is across the top, a lot of nice windows. >> it is a birdhouse, tom burke made to look like martha stewart's home in bedford, new york with 40 little bird bedrooms. >> she is often seen standing right on top of the porch there between those two posts and the whole house is bedford gray, one of her paint colors. >> now look at this. >> and this. >> 15 years ago, tom burke gave up building houses for people and his career took flight, so to speak. >> this is my augusta national clubhouse birdhouse where the masters golf tournament is played. >> more than a dozen burke built birdhouses, try and say that fast, are on display along the riverfront in downtown wilmington, delaware, where burke lives. >> the whole perfect thing about this is the -- and i find found it right down the road. >> he transformed the weathered door into

. >> you can get the home binge cosby had, a collection of frankie lloyd wright's house. >> i'm goinges. i love this idea. the deal of the day, $249, sleep on a yacht in san francisco harbor. >> do you do like boats, house boats. >> 1,000200 boats on our site, spanish armada. >> 31 years old, an upstart. >> are you single? >> yes. >> my sister lives in san francisco. i'll have to work on this. >> brian, thank you so much. we're going to keep our conversation going about the sharing economy. online with brian, use the #mojoe. >> let me give you advice, a very good looking man. >> discussion this afternoon, afternoon mojoe.msnbc.com. meekds giving fashion advice. al qaeda has been defeated. congressman peter king's satellite hookup back up. that and today's business headlines straight ahead on "morning joe." be right back. i'm tony siragusa and i'm training guys who leak a little, to guard their manhood with new depend shields and guards. the discreet protection that's just for guys. now, it's your turn. get my training tips at guardyourmanhood.com like carpools... polly wants to know i