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Date: 1905
City: River Forest, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration status: Demolished (year unknown)
The E. A. Cummings Real Estate Office was a small commercial building. Its low roof sat just above a tall, broad wall at the front of the structure. The wall’s length and close proximity to the office building distorted the scale of the structure, making it appear larger than it actually was. Signage painted directly onto the expansive planes of the wall promoted the real estate…
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Date: 1908
City: Madison, Wisconsin
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
In contrast to many of Wright’s Prairie houses, which are characterized by an overriding horizontality, the E. A. Gilmore house is defined by a monolithic verticality. Its unusual form is a result of the topographic features of the land on which it sits. The house is positioned on a hill and its interior spaces are organized along two axes that intersect at a centrally located fireplace. Sharply pointed, prow-like balconies project from the dining…
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Date: 1901
Address: 559 Ashland Ave., River Forest, IL
City: River Forest, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
In 1901, Wright’s design for “A Small House with ‘Lots of Room in It,’” was published in the Ladies’ Home Journal. The speculative plan for a suburban residence shares much in common with the E. Arthur Davenport house, including gabled roofs with dramatic flared eaves. In discussing his plan for “A Small House,” Wright stated it, “disregards somewhat the economical limit in compact planning to take…
Date: 1908
City: Glencoe, Illinois
Category: Utilitarian
Restoration status: Demolished
Wright prepared preliminary designs for a house and detached stable for Edmund Brigham in 1908, however they were not realized until 1915. The stable had a large room for carriages, three stalls for horses, a service area, and a paddock. It was eventually demolished and only a single drawing survives.
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Date: 1902
City: Sapper Island, Desbarats, Ontario, Canada
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
In 1902, E.H. Pitkin, a Chicago businessman, commissioned Wright to design a two-story summer cottage on his eighteen-acre property on Sapper Island, a remote vacation destination in Canada. Situated on a rocky crag and featuring a first floor veranda that wraps around its north, west, and south elevations, the structure affords expansive views of Lake Huron. Like many of Wright’s designs for cottages, the…
Date: 1905
Address: 3017 W. Carroll Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
City: Chicago, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Commerical
Wright designed the E-Z Polish factory for the production, storage, and distribution of the Martin and Martin Polish Company’s shoe and stove polishes. The company was owned by William E. Martin, for whom Wright designed a house in Oak Park in 1903, and Darwin Martin, who commissioned a number of large-scale projects in Buffalo, New York, including a private residence and the Larkin Administration Building. The E-Z Polish…
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Date: 1900
Address: 313 Forest Avenue, Oak Park, IL
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Category: Residential
Accessibility: Private
Restoration status: Rebuilt after fire in 1976
In 1900, Wright’s client, Nathan Moore, purchased the house neighboring his own as a gift for his daughter, Mary, and her husband Edward R. Hills. Wright subsequently remodeled the 1883 building. His modifications entailed reorienting the structure on its site, the addition of two verandas on the first floor, and finishing the exterior of the house in stucco with…
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Date: 1909
Address: 12615 Pa Ba Shan Lane
City: Charlevoix, Michigan
Accessibility: Private
Category: Recreational
Restoration Status: Burned in 1922 or 1923
Edward C. Waller, Wright’s friend and a real estate developer for whom the architect designed several projects, commissioned Wright to create a swimming pavilion on a vast 2,000-acre swath of property between Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix. Waller purchased the property after it had been cleared…
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Date: 1901
Address: Auvergne Place at Lake Street
City: River Forest, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Utilitarian
Restoration status: Poultry house and stable demolished
Edward C. Waller was an early client and patron of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright designed two apartment complexes for Waller in 1895, and remodeled his home in 1899. Waller subsequently commissioned the architect to design entrance gates, as well as a poultry house and stable on his River Forest property. The entrance gates are all that remain of this…
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Date: 1899
City: River Forest, Illinois
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: Demolished
Edward C. Waller was an important early client and patron of Frank Lloyd Wright. A real-estate lawyer and speculator, Waller commissioned Wright to design multiple projects including: the Francisco Terrace Apartments, 1895; the Waller Apartment, 1895; the Edward C. Waller Gates and Stables, 1901; and the Edward C. Waller Bathing Pavilion, 1909.
Located across the street from Wright’s Winslow house, the Waller house was originally…
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Date: 1908
Address: Rochester, NY 14610
City: Rochester, New York
Category: Residential
Accessibility: Public
Designed for Edward E. Boynton, a widower and lantern salesman from Rochester, New York, and his daughter, Beulah, the Boynton house is an excellent example of Wright’s mature Prairie style.
The first-story fenestration is abundant, especially in the dining room where dropped skylights, a band of clerestory windows, and a bay with casement windows, meet to create dazzling tiers displaying distinct abstract patterns. The…
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Date: 1909
Address: 2 Millikin Place, Decatur, Illinois
City: Decatur, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
The Edward P. and Florence Bernice Irving house, a sumptuous residence with an exhaustive program of interior furnishings, was the product of an intermingling of creative intellects. Wright prepared preliminary sketches of the house just before departing for Europe to work on the Wasmuth Portfolio in the fall of 1909. In preparation for his trip, Wright relinquished his unfinished…
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Date: 1909
Address: 196 Hot Springs Road
City: Montecito, California
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
The Emily and George C. Stewart summer cottage was Wright’s first design and only Prairie style residence realized in California. Wright prepared and delivered a number of blueprints for the Stewart house before closing his studio and embarking on a trip to Europe in the fall of 1909. Because it was constructed after his departure and without his direct supervision, the overall plan varies slightly…
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Date: 1906
Address: 1100 N. Main St., Belvidere, Illinois
City: Belvidere, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Religious
The Pettit Memorial Chapel is a small structure on the grounds of Belvidere Cemetery in Belvidere, Illinois. Emma Glasner Pettit, the sister of William A. Glasner, for whom Wright designed a home Glencoe in 1905, commissioned the chapel in honor of her deceased husband, William H. Pettit. The chapel consists of a long narrow porch and an adjoining, rectangular room for memorial services. Raised above…
Date: 1907
Address: 540 Fair Oaks Avenue, Oak Park, IL
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Utilitarian
Shortly after purchasing the Wright-designed house formerly owned by William Fricke, Emma Martin commissioned Wright to design a garage on the property. In harmony with the existing house, Wright designed the garage in his characteristic Prairie style. Its first floor was designed to accommodate a car and its second story featured a single room with a fireplace on one end and doors opening onto a balcony on the other.
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Date: 1895
Address: 333 Forest Ave. Oak Park, IL
City: Oak Park, IL
Accessibility: Public
Category: Residential
The design innovations pioneered by Wright at his Oak Park home in 1895, marked a significant development in the evolution of his style, bringing him closer to his ideal for the new American home. The modifications to his home responded not only to the growing size of his family, but also Wright’s concern for the intellectual development of his children. Wright converted the first floor dining room to a study, while the…