Job Type: Part-time (Non-exempt)
Job Location(s): Downtown Chicago, Hyde Park, Oak Park
Salary: $16.20 - $17.50 per hour
Supervisor's Title: Chief Operating Officer
Employees Supervised: None
Position Summary:
Carry out all aspects of guest services operations, including: guest orientation, tours, retail sales, scheduling, phone reservations, administrative support, coordination of onsite special events, programs, and facility rentals, etc.
Position Duties:
Deliver quality daily guest experiences and activities including (but not limited to): greet and orient…
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Date: 1896
Address: 534 North East Avenue, Oak Park IL
City: Oak Park, IL
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: Porch enclosed, kitchen remodeled, dormer added
With its symmetrical massing, visually attenuated second story, flared eaves and wooden base, the design of the Goodrich house hints at Wright’s mature design vocabulary.
On the first floor of the residence, a sitting room, library, dining room, and kitchen emanate from a centrally located fireplace, while five bedrooms and a bathroom occupy the…
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Date: 1905
Address: 602 Norris Avenue in McCook, Nebraska
City: McCook, Nebraska
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
The Harvey P. and Eliza Sutton house is Wright’s first and only design in the state of Nebraska. The Suttons commissioned Wright to design their home after Eliza encountered his proposals for “A Home in a Prairie Town” and “A Small House with ‘Lots of Room in It’” in the Ladies Home Journal in 1901. That the Sutton house was a result of the circulation of Wright’s designs in a journal with a primarily…
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Date: 1900
Address: 3407 South Shore Drive, Lake Delavan WI
City: Lake Delavan, Delavan, Wisconsin
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Wright conceived of two designs for a summer cottage for Henry Wallis, a resident of Oak Park who commissioned and sold a number of houses on the banks of Lake Delavan, Wisconsin. Wright’s first proposal for the property was square in plan and diminutive in scale, while the second was more expansive in…
Date: 1911
City: Lake Bluff, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: Destroyed by fire in 1956
The Angster house was situated on a promontory overlooking Lake Michigan. It was composed of sharp lines and geometric masses, and finished in plaster with cypress trim. Bands of casement windows and a large terrace afforded picturesque views of the nearby lake while also allowing ample natural light and air to filter into the house’s interior. The floor plan was exceedingly open and, somewhat atypically, its primary …
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Date: 1902
Address: 5607 Cty. Rd. C, Spring Green, WI 53588
City: Spring Green, Wisconsin
Links: www.taliesinpreservation.org
Accessibility: Public
Category: Educational
Wright designed the original Hillside Home School for his aunts, Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones, in 1887. By 1902, the school had outgrown the domestically scaled Shingle style structure, and Wright’s aunts commissioned a new structure to accommodate the activities of an expanding student body. The new building featured classrooms, an assembly…
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Date: 1909
Address: 205 Essex Rd., Kenilworth, Illinois
City: Kenilworth, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Wright devised two schemes for the Hiram Baldwin house, which was previously believed to have been designed and constructed in 1905 but has since been dated to 1909. In his final design, a slatted wooden screen conceals the front entrance and leads to a reception hall that opens onto the living and dining rooms on the ground floor. The living room is large and its semi-circular shape is distinctive,…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home and studio (1889-1909) was the birthplace of an architectural revolution. Wright used his home to explore design concepts that contained the seeds of his architectural philosophy. In his adjacent studio, Wright and his associates developed a new American architecture – the Prairie style. The historic district surrounding the Home and Studio has the greatest number of Wright-designed residences worldwide.
A Vision for a Village
GRADES 3-5
If you were designing a community, what would it look like? Would you create towering skyscrapers or small country villas? Would buildings be packed tightly together or have sprawling landscapes in-between? Frank Lloyd Wright considered these very ideas throughout his career, at one point planning his own town called Broadacre City.
In this year’s In Wright’s Studio: A Vision for a Village, campers will take on the role of a community planner and collaborate with other campers to design the ideal village. Participants will consider how…
A Vision for a Village
GRADES 6-8
If you were designing a community, what would it look like? Would you create towering skyscrapers or small country villas? Would buildings be packed tightly together or have sprawling landscapes in-between? Frank Lloyd Wright considered these very ideas throughout his career, at one point planning his own town called Broadacre City.
In this year’s In Wright’s Studio: A Vision for a Village, campers will take on the role of a community planner and collaborate with other campers to design the ideal village. Participants will consider how…
Classroom Visits
The Education Department is doing limited in-person classroom visits on Thursdays between 8 am and 3 pm. Currently, the Trust is only able to serve schools in Oak Park, River Forest, or in Chicago city limits. If you fall outside of those districts, please consider a kit rental and virtual workshop with us! Teachers can fill out our Booking Form linked below for more information.
Fee: $150 for one class, $15 per class for additional classrooms
New Virtual Tours
Virtual tours of the Home and Studio in Oak Park and the Frederick C. Robie House in Chicago are now…
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Date: 1909
Address: 669 Fillmore Street, Gary, Indiana
City: Gary, Indiana
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
This residence was designed for Ingwald Moe, a successful contractor in Gary, Indiana, just three years after the city was founded as a center of American steel manufacturing. The house’s plan is an exact duplicate of Wright’s Charles A. Brown house (1905), in Evanston, Illinois. It was constructed during Wright’s travels in Europe, and its design may have been overseen by Marion Mahony.
Back to The Buildings…
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Date: 1908
Address: 603 Edgewood Place in River Forest, Illinois
City: River Forest, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Isabel Roberts served as office manager and bookkeeper at Wright’s Oak Park studio. Wright designed a residence for her and her mother, Mary Roberts, five years after she began her career in his office. The house has an expansive, two-story living room with a vaulted ceiling and tall, diamond-paned windows that are evocative of those found at the Walter V. Davidson house (…
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Date: 1896
Address: 5132 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL
City: Chicago, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
As the 1890s came to a close Wright experimented with several elongated building plans that connected a series of distinct spaces along a continuous axis. The designs were markedly different from the square plans that characterized Wright’s earlier houses, and helped shape the plans of Wright’s mature Prairie buildings.
The Isidore Heller house…
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Date: 1903
Address: 42 N. Central Ave., Chicago, IL
City: Chicago, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
The J.J. Walser Jr. house, a moderately scaled residence that typifies Wright’s architecture of the period, is finished in light colored stucco with dark stained wood trim that creates a high level of contrast. A similar treatment is found on the interior of the residence and creates a sense of continuity. The design of Wright’s Barton house in Buffalo was based on that of the Walser house. The two structures…
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Date: 1891
Address: 1365 North Astor Street, Chicago, IL 60610
City: Chicago, IL
Accessibility: Public
Category: Residential
Links: http://www.sah.org/about-sah/charnley-persky-house
Restoration Status: Restored by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1986-1988, designated a Chicago landmark in 1972
The James Charnley house brings together the work of two of Chicago’s most progressive architects, Frank Lloyd Wright and his mentor, Louis Sullivan. The building stands as one of the few major residential commissions realized by Sullivan…