Constructed in 1940 and remaining essentially unaltered, the Goetsch-Winckler House is significant as the second of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian house designs to have been built. The house is the quintessential example of Wright's early design philosophy for the construction of moderate income housing and the end product of his first opportunity to design a community based on his Broadacre City principles. The house exemplifies Wright's vision of promoting democracy through individualized designs within rural communities and his attempt to deal with the housing needs of the Depression era. The Goetsch-Winkler House is a modest, one-story Usonian house. It embodies Frank Lloyd Wright's trademark design elements such as, organic relationship to the site, horizontal planes, cantilever roofs,