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Date: 1900
Address: 3335 South Shore, Lake Delavan, WI
City: Lake Delavan, Delavan, Wisconsin
Category: Residential
Accessibility: Private
A wide archway connects the second story of the Fred B. Jones summerhouse to a tower in which Jones and his guests played poker. The gently graduated arch and adjoining tower, as well as the waterside orientation and recreational function of the vacation home, suggest the lingering influence of McKim, Mead, and White’s Agricultural Building, which Wright encountered at the 1893 World’s…
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Date: 1894
Address: 121 S. County Line Road, Hinsdale, IL
City: Hinsdale, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: original dark stained shingles were replaced with white siding; south living room window expanded to a picture window by subsequent owners; enclosed porch and pergola added at rear
The dormered gambrel roof and columned veranda, as well as the dark stained shingle siding that originally covered the Frederick Bagley house, were typical features of American domestic architecture by the…
Completed in 1910, the Robie House (1908-1910) is the consummate expression of Wright’s Prairie style. Robie House sparked a revolution in residential architecture that still reverberates today and is considered one of the most important buildings in architectural history. The house is a masterpiece of the Prairie style and a forerunner of modernism in architecture.
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Completed in 1910, the house Wright designed for Frederick C. Robie is the consummate expression of his Prairie style. The house is conceived as an integral whole—site and structure, interior and exterior, furniture, ornament and architecture, each element is connected. Unrelentingly horizontal in its elevation and a dynamic configuration of sliding planes in its plan, the Robie House is the most innovative and forward thinking of all Wright’s Prairie houses.
On the exterior, bands of brick and limestone anchor the building to…
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Date: 1908-10
Address: 5757 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL
City: Chicago, Illinois
Accessibility: Public
Category: Residential
Links: www.flwright.org
Restoration Status: From 2000 to 2009, the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust completed Phase I of the restoration of the Robie House, including comprehensive stabilization of the foundation and steel frame structure, restoration of exterior brick and masonry, construction of a new tile roof and gutters, and new electrical, climate and fire control systems.…
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Date: 1904
Address: 150 Nuttall Road, Riverside, Illinois
City: Riverside, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
The Frederick F. Tomek house is prototypical of Wright’s suburban Prairie style residences. Its design prefigures that of the Frederick C. Robie house and, as in that scheme, its main entrance opens onto the ground floor, which features a billiard room. From there, a central staircase leads to the primary living spaces on the main level of the residence. A second flight of stairs leads to bedrooms on…
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Date: 1906
Address: 1136 Brassie Avenue, Flossmoor, Illinois 60422
City: Flossmoor, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
The Nichols house was designed as a vacation home for Frederick Nichols, the superintendent of the Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company. Built in Flossmoor, Illinois, the residence is similar in plan to the “Fireproof House for $5,000” Wright published in the Ladies Home Journal, and “Tan-y-deri,” a house he designed for his sister, Jane Porter, both of which were built in 1907. The Nichols…
As Wright worked to define his vision for American architecture and design, the currents of Modernism coursed at home and abroad. Architects and designers in Europe, Great Britain and America integrated exterior and interior design principles to achieve a level of visual unity never seen before. From paintings and prints to light fixtures and furniture, the Modern style was pervasive, synthesizing every aspect of design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a “total work of art.”
Wright’s ideology, like that of his international contemporaries, focused on the complete integration of the house ̶ site and…
The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust and Oak Park School District 97 have partnered since 2003 to inspire the next generation of local preservationists and designers. Each school year, fourth grade students visit the Home and Studio to explore Wright’s design legacy through tours and onsite activities. In addition to tours, each class is provided a Froebel block workshop or Learning Kit for students to create, build, and design first-hand.
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Date: 1903
Address: Summit Avenue and Jewett Parkway
City: Buffalo, New York
Links: www.darwinmartinhouse.org
Accessibility: Public
Category: Residential
Darwin D. Martin commissioned Wright to design the Barton house for his sister, Delta, and her husband George Barton. A chief executive at the Larkin soap and mail-order company in Buffalo, New York, Martin would become one of Wright’s most important early clients.
Martin was introduced to Wright’s work during a visit to Chicago…
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Date: 1907
Address: 4858 south Kenwood Ave, Chicago, IL
City: Chicago, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Utilitarian
In 1892, at the inception of his career, Wright designed a house for George Blossom in the Colonial Revival style. Fourteen years later, Blossom commissioned Wright to design a garage on the same property. Wright employed his mature design vocabulary to the garage, which featured a hipped roof, casement windows, and siding in Roman brick, stucco, and wood. He developed two schemes—one…
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Date: 1892
Address: 4858 South Kenwood Ave
City: Chicago, IL
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
To supplement his salary, Wright began taking on independent commissions in violation of his five-year contract with Louis Sullivan. Known as the “bootleg houses,” these early designs typically reflect historical architectural styles, yet exhibit elements that would manifest themselves fully in Wright’s mature Prairie style. Reflecting the nineteenth-century taste for academic Colonial Revival design, the George Blossom house…
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Date: 1908
Address: 530 1st Street NE, Mason City, IA 50401
City: Mason City, Iowa
Accessibility: Public
Category: Residential
Links: http://www.stockmanhouse.org/
Restoration status: Moved to new site in 1989, restored and opened to the public
The George C. and Eleanor Stockman house was Wright’s first commission in the state of Iowa. Its square-shaped plan is a derivation of the Stephen M. B. Hunt house (1907) and Wright’s design for a “Fireproof House for $5000.” Unlike the “Fireproof House,” however, the…
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Date: 1897
Address: 223 N. Euclid Ave., Oak Park, IL
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: Porch enlarged and enclosed in 1922
The George Furbeck house was designed around the same time as Wright’s own Studio, and both structures make use of strong octagonal shapes. In the Furbeck house, for instance, two large, octagonal turrets flank the entrance that leads to a larger octagonal living room. Likewise, faceted walls border an alcove located off of the first floor dining room.…
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Date: 1906
Address: 1689 Lake Avenue, Highland Park, IL
City: Highland Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Located in Highland Park, Illinois, the Millard house was commissioned by George and Alice Millard, successful antiquarian book dealers with a special interest in the English Arts and Crafts movement. The Millards sold illuminated manuscripts, prints, and finely bound books, and their cosmopolitan appreciation of art and culture surely informed their decision to…
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Date: 1898
Address: 404 Home Ave., Oak Park, IL
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Category: Residential
Accessibility: Private
The plan for the George Smith House closely resembles those developed for Charles Roberts as low-cost housing in Ridgeland, Illinois. The simple shingle siding in a muted brown palette; the steeply pitched roof; and thin, towering chimneys evoke Wright’s earlier “bootleg” houses. The roofs flare slightly as they project over the supporting walls of the structure—a device echoed in the flared band of siding that…
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Date: 1902
Address: 3209 South Shore Drive, Delavan, Wisconsin 53115
City: Lake Delavan, Delavan, Wisconsin
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Another of Wright’s vacation homes in Delavan, Wisconsin, the George Spencer summer cottage is marked by the sharply protruding, covered veranda at its side. Prow-like in form, this feature recalls the deck at the William G. Fricke house, several bays at the Arthur and Grace Heurtley house, and the stairwell at the Henry Wallis summer cottage. The triangular protrusion interrupts…
Let our Group Tours Department assist you in planning an itinerary for your group of 10 or more. We offer tours of the Chicago area’s most famous Frank Lloyd Wright sites: his first Home and Studio and Unity Temple in Oak Park; the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District in Oak Park; the Frederick C. Robie House in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago and The Rookery Light Court in downtown Chicago.
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Supervisor’s Title: Guest Services Administrator
Salary: $18.00 - $22.00 per hour
Employees Supervised: None
Work Summary:
Carry out all aspects of guest services administration and operations including, scheduling of staff and volunteers, guest orientation, tours, retail sales, phone reservations, administrative support, coordination of onsite special events, programs, and facility rentals. Travel to all public visitation sites may be required. Weekend and evening hours required to meet the needs of the organization and customer service goals of the…