Eugene A. Gilmore HouseFrank Lloyd Wright
Exterior · Madison, United States · 1908
Photo: w_lemay · 2022-09-22 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3824×2868
Built in 1908, this Prairie-style house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Eugene A. Gilmore, and features a form that is reminiscent of an airplane with cantilevered sections that seem to soar above the surrounding landscape, hence the house’s nickname of the “Airplane House.” Eugene Allen Gilmore was a law professor at the Law School of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he had begun teaching in 1902, and lived in Madison with his wife, Blanche Bayse Gilmore, eventually becoming the acting dean of the school in 1912-1913 and president of the Association of American Law Schools.