Tag: Frank Lloyd Wright
Video – A rare Frank Lloyd Wright rowhouse in The Gap
The Roloson Houses in the 3200 block of South Calumet are a Chicago Landmark, in part because they're the only rowhouses designed by Frank Lloyd W [...]
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, a DesignSlinger photography primer
Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park represented a startling new departure when it opened in 1908. It has since been listed on the Nation [...]
Side by side Wright bootleg homes sound an alarm
A year ago we invited you to consider this quote from John Shelette Van Bergen, a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright:
Since the American architect h [...]
A Wilmette home to control your morals and happiness
When it comes to pompous pronouncements, Chicago architects have many peers but few superiors. Consider this quote from John Shelette Van Bergen, [...]
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House nominated as World Heritage site
Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Hyde Park is one of a number of Wright buildings nominated for inclusion on the United Nations World Heritage [...]
If Frank Lloyd Wright wasn’t dead this home might kill him
According to the listing copy, the 7,000+ square foot ranch at 390 N East River Rd in Des Plaines is a "unique design that Frank Lloyd Wright woul [...]
Lucien Lagrange’s finest achievement
If you had to choose a single word to characterize well-known architects as a group, you'd be unlikely to choose "humility." Frank Lloyd Wright, f [...]
A Wright home in Glencoe for $550K
The Ravine Bluffs subdivision in Glencoe is home to half a dozen homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It also hosts a Wright-designed bridge and [...]
The most livable Frank Lloyd Wright house
Right down the street from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio in Oak Park, sits the Thomas Gale house, one of three homes which were designed by a [...]
Walk Wright into eight Oak Park homes next month
Even if you aren't in the market for one of the five Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes currently for sale in the suburbs, you still might be interes [...]
Finding the Wright home in Chicagoland
Last week Frank Lloyd Wright's old studio at 25 E Cedar St in the Gold Coast went on the market for $1.7 million. Wright didn't design the 6,000 squ [...]
Suburban showcase: A double-turreted Queen Anne in Frank Lloyd Wright Land
Double-turreted Victorian homes are unusual sightings in a place like Oak Park, so Joe Zekas couldn't pass up an opportunity to visit one.
Earlier [...]
Quote of the day: The death of the city
Skyscrapers in cities increase congestion, they were devised originally to hold concentration where it is, and they have proved to be the death of t [...]
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