Enjoy exclusive access and curator-led tours of buildings and collections that represent the very best of the British Arts and Crafts movement in London, Glasgow and the Cotswolds, where the Arts and Crafts movement flourished at the turn of the last century.
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Date: 1906
Address: 605 North Batavia Road, Batavia, Illinois
City: Batavia, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
The Gridley house is a large residence set back from the street on a sprawling lot in Batavia, Illinois. The crisp geometry of the structure and its surrounding parapets, as well as its pale stucco finish, make for a striking contrast to the verdant landscape that surrounds it. The ground floor rooms are arranged along two perpendicular axes that intersect at a…
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Date: 1895
Address: 333 Forest Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: Second and third stories destroyed by fire in 1922, rebuilt in 1923 by Frank Lloyd Wright
Located just a block from Wright’s own home in Oak Park, the Moore house stands in contrast to Wright’s evolving philosophy of design. Responding to the desires of his client, attorney Nathan Moore, Wright drew on traditional English architectural models for design of the house. Its upper stories…
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Date: 1897
Address: 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Public
Category: Studio
Links: www.flwright.org
Restoration Status: Restored to its 1909 appearance by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, 1974 - 1987
After renovating his Oak Park home 1895, Wright’s studio workroom, which was subdivided into bedrooms for his children, was no longer a viable workspace. Wright maintained an office in Chicago’s downtown Loop neighborhood, occupying the Schiller Building, Steinway Hall, and the Rookery at…
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Date: 1906
Address: 1340 East High Street, Springfield, OH 45505
City: Springfield, Ohio
Accessibility: Public
Category: Residential
Links: http://www.westcotthouse.org/
The Westcott house, Wright’s first commission in Ohio and his only Prairie style residence in the state, was designed in 1906, and built in 1908. Burton Westcott had a successful career as a manufacturer of cars in Springfield’s burgeoning auto industry. Orpha Westcott was an active member of the community with progressive tastes that led her…
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Date: 1911
Address: 611 North Kenilworth, Oak Park, Illinois
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Oscar B. Balch moved from Pennsylvania to Oak Park to join the decorating firm of W. and S. E. Pebbles in 1890. Balch was eventually made a partner of the company. Wright remodeled the Pebbles and Balch storefront in 1907, and subsequently designed a residence for Balch and his family in 1911. The house’s entrance is concealed, and sturdy walls around the terrace and southern periphery of the property…
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Date: 1909
Address: 7631 Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL
City: Chicago, Illinois
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: Demolished 1963
The Oscar Steffens house occupied an elevated position on land overlooking Lake Michigan. Leaded glass windows with tinted chevron patterns afforded views and referenced the colors of the nearby lake. The two-story living room featured a balcony in a similar configuration as that found at the Isabel Roberts house. The living room terminated in a bay with…
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Date: 1906
Address: 318 S Fifth Street, Geneva, IL 60134
City: Geneva, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
The Hoyt house is a small, square-shaped structure finished in stucco. Unlike many of Wright’s buildings from this period, in which entrances are often indirectly accessed, the entrance to the Hoyt house is conspicuously placed at the center of the front elevation. The entrance opens directly into the living room rather than a hall. The unconventional…
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Date: 1911
City: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Category: Recreational
Restoration status: Demolished in 1938
The one-story recreational facility Wright designed in Alberta, Canada, was the result of a collaboration with Canadian architect Francis C. Sullivan. Wright conceived of the structure’s design while Sullivan prepared working drawings and oversaw its construction. The long, low-lying structure featured dark-stained board and batten siding and rough fieldstone that complemented the rocky mountain range in the surrounding landscape…
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Date: 1907
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Category: Commercial
Restoration Status: Demolished, 1950s
Established in 1868, Pebbles and Balch was a purveyor of paint and wallpaper in Oak Park. By the time Wright was commissioned to remodel the company’s brick storefront in 1907, its inventory had expanded to include textiles, furniture, flooring, lighting fixtures, and other home furnishings. Wright introduced a large plate-glass window for display, and framed it with a long band of casement windows on top and narrow…
Oak Park is home to the world’s largest collection of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Explore its picturesque historic neighborhoods on a guided bicycle tour of 21 Wright-designed structures. Wright sites featured on this tour include Wright’s Home and Studio, Frank Thomas House, Heurtley House, Cheney House, Furbeck House and more.
Bring your own bike or one can be provided (included in tour admission).
Tour operates rain or shine.
Tour length: 2 hours
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Date: 1906
Address: 238 Forest Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
In 1906, Emma Beachy, the daughter of Peter Fahrney, a successful doctor and real-estate investor in Chicago, commissioned Wright to renovate a Gothic cottage on Forest Avenue for her children and second husband, Peter A. Beachy. Wright’s renovations were dramatic, and left little more than the foundation of the original structure intact. The resulting house is situated on the northern corner of its…
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Date: 1909
Address: 856 Wilson Ave., Chicago, IL
City: Chicago, Illinois
Category: Commercial
Notation: Demolished in 1922
The Peter C. Stohr Arcade Building was a commercial structure that housed a variety of businesses including a grocery, photography studio, and real estate office. Destined for a triangular lot beneath the elevated tracks of the Northwestern Railroad, the project posed a number of design challenges. Steel columns punctuated the irregularly shaped property, and Wright had…
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Date: 1894
Address: 108 S Eighth Avenue, La Grange, Illinois, 60525
City: La Grange, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: front porch removed
With a central fireplace surrounded by a living room, dining room, pantry, kitchen, and hall, the Peter Goan house is similar in plan to Wright’s own residence. Four bedrooms and a bathroom are accessed from a central hall on the second floor. The lower three quarters of the exterior facade is clad in shingles, while the area just below the soffit is of…
Mason City, IA is a hidden jewel, featuring a stellar collection of Prairie School-style homes set amidst a picturesque natural landscape. Join us on Travel Wright’s inaugural journey to this small Midwestern city that is known as one of the best destinations for architecture—not just in the nation—but the world.
We spend our lives earning a living and then enjoy our retirement years traveling and volunteering. Many, however, don’t plan for a final gift to the organizations they have loved and supported throughout their lives.
The Legacy Society provides a means for you to include the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust in your final plans, to create a legacy in your name so that others may experience the innovative and influential ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright which you have come to know and appreciate.
There are a number of creative ways to support the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust such as a will bequest or trust,…