The 2003 Wright and Like Madison tour featured eight private homes as well as the Monona Terrace and Convention Center. Within the tour were homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. Along with these prominent architects, Ed Linville's design of the Middleton Hills Gates-Fulwiler home was highlighted. Ed Linville says & quote;I was humbled to be selected as an architect on a tour with architectural greats like those of Sullivan and Wright."



In the 1960's Middleton Hills was acquired by Marshall Erdman, and ear-marked as a plan for "new urbanism". It features smaller lots, larger green spaces, narrow streets, and architectural guidelines favoring the Prairie style-a modern interpretation of an old-fashioned small-town look. The first ground-breaking was in August, 1994.

Around that time, Ed Linville met Jan Fulwiler and Robin Gates. Gates had grown up in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, Herb Fritz. Ed Linville worked for Fritz as a draftsman and had been influenced by his work. A relationship formed between Linville, Krupp Construction and the Fulwiler-Gates name.

The site for this home sits on a hillside overlooking the capitol. Linville's cruciform plan placed the living room on the upper level and the bedrooms on the lower level, dictating the form of the exterior. Linville says that the interior of the house exhibits the influences of Wright, Elmslie, and Sullivan.