Built in 1903-1905, this Prairie-style house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for William R. Heath, a lawyer whom served as the office manager and vice president for the Larkin Company, and his wife, Mary Hubbard Heath. The house is located on a corner lot at the intersection of Soldiers Circle and Bird Avenue, and was a precedent for the later, more famous, and similarly-sited Robie House in Chicago, and maintains much of its original character, minus a mid-20th Century alteration of the rear wing of the house, adding windows, enclosing the rear porches, extension of the west wing, and part‹›
William R. Heath House

Frank Lloyd Wright

Exterior · Buffalo, United States · 1903

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Built in 1903-1905, this Prairie-style house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for William R. Heath, a lawyer whom served as the office manager and vice president for the Larkin Company, and his wife, Mary Hubbard Heath. The house is located on a corner lot at the intersection of Soldiers Circle and Bird Avenue, and was a precedent for the later, more famous, and similarly-sited Robie House in Chicago, and maintains much of its original character, minus a mid-20th Century alteration of the rear wing of the house, adding windows, enclosing the rear porches, extension of the west wing, and part

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