West Face of the Home This extraordinary building in Oak Park, Illinois was the Wright family residence from 1889 to 1909. Wright began the construction of this house in 1889 shortly after his marriage to Catherine Tobin, using $5,000 borrowed from Louis Sullivan. The Wright family - Frank ...
The Laura Gale House, also known as the Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House, is a home in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The house was designed by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1909. It is located within the boundaries of the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prair...
Frank Lloyd Wright's first Prairie house; the Larkin Administration Building (1904), "a great fireproof vault" in Buffalo, New York; remodeling of the Rookery Lobby (1905) in Chicago; the great, concreteUnity Temple(1908) in Oak Park; and the Prairie house that made him a star, theRobie...
When visiting family in Chicago, we decided to take a side trip to nearby Oak Park, Illinois, just a short train ride out of the city on the Green line. We bought the economical combo ticket for the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio Tour and the self-guided Walking Tour of neighborhood...
Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois.Don Kalec/Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust/Getty Images (cropped) Wright moved from Wisconsin to the Chicago area to learn the craft of architecture from the masters. His most influential mentor wasarchitect Louis Sullivan, his emplo...
Wright's Studio More Photos of Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, Illinois Beginning in 1890, he was assigned all residential design work for the firm. In 1893, Louis Sullivan himself unwillingly asked Wright to leave the firm after he discovered that Wright had been accepting clients independently...
Home to Frank Lloyd Wright for many years, Oak Park, Illinois is also the site of the greatest concentration of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes and buildings than anywhere else in the world. Having designed structures for the neighborhood for nearly four decades, Wright used Oak Park as ...
A new tourism trail showcasing some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ground-breaking work has been launched in Illinois by the Illinois Office of Tourism.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy is so strong in the village west of Chicago that he seems to be part of the present. Home to more than two dozen Wright structures, including a church, two stables and a fountain, Oak Park boasts the largest collection of Wright-designed sites in the ...
Wright had already established his Prairie style of American design through a series of residential projects in and around Illinois. With its horizontal lines, low, flat ceilings, and open floor plans, Robie House represented both the style’s culmination and its consummate expression. “‘Breaking...