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With support of the Getty Foundation’s Keeping It Modern initiative, the Trust announces a new Conservation Management Plan for the Frederick C. Robie House. The plan documents the past, present, and future of Robie House research and conservation management and presents a defining vision for the preservation of Wright’s iconic Prairie house for generations to come.
READ THE ROBIE HOUSE CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN >>
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Date: 1898
Address: 515 Fair Oaks Avenue, Oak Park IL
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: open porch enclosed, new wood-shingled roof, gutters and downspouts
A wedding gift from Furbeck’s father, the house was the second residence Wright designed for the Furbeck family. In 1897, Rollin Furbeck’s brother George commissioned a home in Oak Park from the architect. Open porches at the sides of the front and rear façades, as well as a porte cochère at the rear of the…
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Date: 1897
City: Spring Green, Wisconsin
Accessibility: Public
Links: http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/
Restoration Status: Demolished in 1990. A replica of Wright’s design stands in place of the original, however, the stone base and capped roof were salvaged and reused for the new construction.
Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones, Wright’s aunts, founded the Hillside Home School as a progressive boarding school in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Wright, with the help of his mentor Joseph Lyman Silsbee, designed a Shingle Style structure to…
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Date: 1903
Address: Oak Park Avenue and Lake Street
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Public
Restoration Status: Original demolished, replica installed in 1969
Designed as a public sculpture for Oak Park’s Scoville Park, the fountain, which is variously referred to as the Scoville Park Fountain and the Horse Show Fountain, was developed by Wright in collaboration with sculptor Richard Bock. Between 1903 and 1910, Bock worked almost exclusively for Wright in the stimulating environment of the Oak Park Studio. The sculptor’s…
In appreciation of member support, we are pleased to offer Trust members early entry to the new Frank Lloyd Wright Reading Room and Archives at the Trust’s Resource Center.
To celebrate the opening of the Resource Center, the Trust is hosting a different creative activity every Saturday in September, just for members. Maginel Wright Enright, Wright’s sister and fellow Oak Parker, was a celebrated artist and children’s book illustrator. Join us for a felt flower craft, inspired by some of Maginel’s artworks from her career.
In appreciation of member support, we are pleased to offer Trust members early entry to the new Frank Lloyd Wright Reading Room and Archives at the Trust’s Resource Center.
To celebrate the opening of the Resource Center, the Trust is hosting a different creative activity every Saturday in September, just for members. Come create your own Home and Studio-inspired birdhouse while learning about the birds in your own backyard.
In appreciation of member support, we are pleased to offer Trust members early entry to the new Frank Lloyd Wright Reading Room and Archives at the Trust’s Resource Center.
To celebrate the opening of the Resource Center, the Trust is hosting a different creative activity every Saturday in September, just for members. The teachings of Friedrich Froebel inspired Wright throughout his career. Join us for a paper weaving craft where you’ll explore geometry, beauty, and the importance of play!
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Thank you to our Oak Park and River Forest neighbors and friends who were able to join us for our Spotlight on Wright community event on July 19, featuring a speakers' program and preview of the new Resource Center, part of the Learning Center expansion.
Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, Oak Park Village President Vicki Scaman, and Patty Hunt, Trust Board Vice-President and Executive Chair were featured speakers for the morning event. Courageous Bakery provided sweet treats and U3 Coffee offered refreshments.
Participants of our youth summer camp, In Wright's Studio: Creating a Village…
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Date: 1900
City: Chicago, Illinois
Category: Residential
Accessibility: Private
Designed in the same year as Wright’s seminal Bradley and Hickox houses, the Foster Cottage is less audacious in concept, and is more closely aligned with Wright’s buildings of the early 1890s. In place of the dynamic floor plans of its contemporaries, the Foster Cottage utilizes a square plan and wood siding similar to Wright’s earlier “bootleg” houses. The dramatic, outward flare of the ridges on the roof and dormers evokes…
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Date: 1907
Address: 345 S 7th Avenue, La Grange, IL
City: La Grange, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
In contrast to Wright’s lavish design for the Avery Coonley house of the same year, the Stephen M. B. Hunt house is exceedingly modest in scale. Its square-shaped plan closely replicates that of Wright’s “A Fireproof House for $5,000,” which was published in the Ladies Home Journal in 1907. Wright wrote that the “Fireproof House” was “trimmed to the last ounce of the superfluous” and emphasized its practical…
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Date: 1902
Address: 301 E. Lawrence Ave., Springfield, IL 62703
City: Springfield, Illinois
Links: www.dana-thomas.org
Accessibility: Public
Category: Residential
Unified and harmonious, the Dana house stands as one of the most opulent expressions of Wright’s visionary design philosophy. Designed and constructed between 1902 and 1904, the house was Wright’s most elaborate residential commission to date. In contrast to Wright’s typical clients, who were middle class business men, Dana was an independently wealthy, progressive…
Date: 1901
City: Elmhurst, Illinois
Category: Utilitarian
Accessibility: Private
Restoration status: Demolished
Very little documentation of the Wilder Stable survives. Original drawings indicate that, on its first floor, the building featured a chicken coop, stables for horses and cows, tool storage, and a garage for carriages. The second floor served as a two-bedroom apartment. It has been suggested that Walter Burley Griffin, an architect and landscape designer who played an important role in Wright’s Oak Park Studio, designed the T. E. Wilder Stables. The structure’s gabled roofs, which…
Enrich your curriculum with Teaching by Design, a professional development program for K-12 Educators. These professional development workshops will empower teachers to integrate American art, design, and architecture into their classroom curriculum. Inquiry-based tours and hands-on design activities will give educators opportunities to develop STEAM skills and strengthen social-emotional development. Each session will be hosted at one of Wright’s historic buildings in the Chicago area.
Thank you to all our educators who participated in our Teaching by Design winter program! In the coming…
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Date: 1909
City: Stevensville, Montana
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration status: Destroyed by fire in 1924
In addition to commissioning the Como Orchards Summer Colony (1909), the Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company asked Wright to plan a town along the Great Northern railway in Stevensville, Montana. The comprehensive plan included civic buildings such as a church, hotel, railroad station, opera house, and library, as well as private residential structures. However, only the Bitter Root Inn was…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural principles were forged in the pioneering environment of late-nineteenth-century Chicago. Arriving in 1887, Wright would spend the first twenty years of his career working in the city and its suburbs. Chicago offered Wright an immersive environment of creativity and inspiration that shaped his architectural philosophies and laid the foundation for his future career. Listed here are the projects designed and built by Wright during his Chicago years. The buildings appear chronologically, dated by their original drawings. To learn more about each building click…
In 1893, Frank Lloyd Wright resigned his position as draftsman for Adler & Sullivan and entered private practice, establishing an office in the Schiller Building in downtown Chicago. At the time Wright founded his practice, the American architectural profession was coming into maturity. The independent builders and contractors that traditionally had served as architects in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were replaced in the post-Civil War period by professional architecture firms that arose as the United States established itself as an urban nation.
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In 1893, Frank Lloyd Wright founded his architectural practice in Oak Park, a quiet, semi-rural village on the Western edge of Chicago. It was at his Oak Park Studio during the first decade of the twentieth century that Wright pioneered a bold new approach to domestic architecture, the Prairie style. Inspired by the broad, flat landscape of America’s Midwest, the Prairie style was the first uniquely American architectural style of what has been called “the American Century.”
During his early years in Chicago, Wright did not operate in a vacuum. His work was supported and often enhanced by a…