Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
Wright, Frank Lloyd; Bock, Richard W.
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Date
1889-1898Description
Original house, view from upper bedroom window, depicting cut in roof allowing light into bay window; The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust to its appearance in 1909, the last year Frank Lloyd Wright lived there with his family. Frank Lloyd Wright purchased the property and built the home in 1889 with a $5,000 loan from his employer Louis Sullivan. He was 22 at the time, and newly wed to Catherine Tobin. The Wrights raised six children in the home. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and declared a National Historic Landmark four years later. The original 1889 structure was quite small. The home was extensively remodeled in 1895, when among other changes the kitchen was enlarged and converted to a dining room, the upstairs nursery was expanded and converted for use as Catherine's dayroom, and the Children's Playroom and a new kitchen were added to the back of the house. A second major addition was made in 1898, when the Studio and Connecting Corridor were built. In the Studio, Frank Lloyd Wright and associated architects like Walter Burley Griffin and sculptor Richard Bock advanced the Prairie School of Architecture and designed many notable structures, including the Robie House, Unity Temple, the Laura Gale home, and the Larkin building. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/13/2008)
Type of Work
house; studio (work space)Subject
architectural exteriors, Artists' studios, Housing, dwelling, Shingle Style, Nineteenth century
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