Frank Lloyd Wright Home and StudioFrank Lloyd Wright
Exterior · Oak Park, United States · 1889
Photo: Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois · 2010-09-07 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3601×2677
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, a national landmark (house 1889, remodel 1895, studio 1898, studio remodel 1909). The history of Oak Park and River Forest is forever linked to the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, who operated out of his Oak Park home and studio from 1889 to 1909. This was his transitional period from his work with Adler & Sullivan through the refinement of the Prairie Style. The 1889 home was mostly utilitarian and Wright initially spent little time there. At this time, Wright mostly worked in the Auditorium Building in downtown Chicago for Adler & Sull