Winslow House

Frank Lloyd Wright

Exterior · River Forest, United States · 1893

Photo: Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois · 2010-09-07 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3648×1996

William H. Winslow House in River Forest (1894). Winslow was a publisher (who later established House Beautiful, still published today) who was Wright's first wealthy client. Consequently, Wright was able to incorporate more of his own style into the designs, since he had fewer financial restrictions. The result is a house that is heavily influenced by Sullivanesque design, but features many details common to later Prairie School plans, including a low roof and roman brick. The rear of the house had an unusual studio for Winslow that featured a tree growing through the middle. It is the oldest

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