Prairie Sites
In Illinois:
 
Arenzville
Aurora
Barrington_Hills
Batavia
Belvidere
Berwyn
Bloomington
Blue Island
Brookfield
Calumet City
Camp Point 
Canton
Champaign
Chicago
Danville
Decatur
Dekalb
Delevan
Dixon
Downers_Grove
Dwight
Edwardsville
Elgin
Elmhurst
Evanston
Flossmore 
Galva
Geneva
Glencoe
Glen Ellyn
Highand Park
Harvey
Hinsdale
Jacksonville
Joliet
Kankakee
 Kenilworth
 LaGrange
Lincoln
Lisle
Lombard
Maywood
Morris
 Naperville
Normal
Oak Park
0ttawa
Palos Park
Peoria
Plainfield
Pontiac
Quincy
River Forest Riverside
Rochelle
Rockford
Rock Island
St. Charles Springfield Villa_Park 
Watseka
Western Springs
Wheaton
Wilmette
Winnetka
Winfield 
Rick's WrightSite (TM) 90 12/08/2013
Prairie Style Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
(and contemporaries) in Illinois, and beyond...

Prairie Sites
Beyond Illinois:
Alexandria
 Bloomington
Buffalo
Canton, OH
Dallas
Dayton
Deal, NJ
Denver
Derby, NY
Dunbar, PA
Elkhart
Elkins Park, PA
Ft. Myers
Ft Wayne
Gary
Grand Beach
Grand Rapids
Hammond
Holland
Indiana
 Indianapolis
 Jacksonville
Logansport
 Kalamazoo
Kansas City
Kenosha
Kirkwood
Lake_Geneva
Lakeland
Los Angeles
Madison, WI
Madison, OH
Marion
Memphis
Milwaukee
Mill Run, PA
Montclair, NJ 
New York 
Oberlin,Ohio
Ogden Dunes 
 Pasadena
Phoenix
Plainfield
Racine
Rochester
Santa Cruz
San Diego
San Jose
 San Rafael
South Bend
Taliesin
Spring Green
 Springfield, Ohio
 St Joseph
St Petersburg
 Scottsdale-Taliesin West
Shorewood
Tampa
Tucson
Waikapu, Maui
Wauwatosa
West Lafayette
 Whiting
Williams Bay 
My work as a volunteer certified docent/interpreter and research captain for the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust is enriched by my knowledge of work by Wright and his contemporaries. Here is my photo gallery of prairie style architecture and FLW sites that I have visited as part of my travels and studies. Many thanks to John Panning and his Prairie School Traveler site for making many of these discoveries possible, and the docent interpreters at sites I have visited. I look forward to seeing you at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois.

Rick's Wright-Site Home Index of IL Prairie Sites Prairie Sites Beyond Illinois FLW sites Other Prairie Sites FLW Artglass
  • Index of Prairie School Buildings Featured on Rick's WrightSite
     
    Frank Lloyd Wright and Prairie Style architecture sites visited and featured on McNees.org WrightSite:
     
    Beyond Illinois Prairie Architecture Sites
    Area Structure Address Architect Date
             
    Alexandria Pope-Leighey House 9000 Richmond Highway Frank Lloyd Wright 1941-42
    Bloomington   House  825 East Eighth Street designer unknown
    Buffalo Darwin Martin Complex, 125 Jewett Parkway, Buffalo, NY - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1903-1905, 1909
      Walter V. Davidson House, 57 Tillinghast Place, Buffalo, NY - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1908
      Fontana Boat House, Buffalo Marina, Buffalo, NY - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1905
    Canton, OH Ellis Feiman House,  452 Santa Clara Drive NW, Canton, Ohio - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1954
      John Dobkins House, 5120 Plain Center Ave., Canton, OH - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1954
    Dallas

    Tom W. Newsome House

    		 4930 Swiss Ave. C.P. Sites 1914
      House  4937 Swiss Ave. designer unknown  
      House 4946 Swiss Ave.    

    Rufus W. Higginbotham House

    		 5002 Swiss Ave. Lang & Witchell 1913
     

    J.P. Griffin House

    		 5109 Swiss Ave. Designer unknown  1911
      House 5125 Swiss Ave.,  
     

    James L. Allred House

    		5643 Swiss Ave. Designer unknown 1917
    Dayton Meyers Medical Clinic 5441 Far Hills Avenue, Dayton, Ohio Frank Lloyd Wright 1956
    Deal, NJ House at 27 Monmouth Drive, Deal, New Jersey
    Denver Mrs. M. D. Lewis House 642 Clarkson Glen Wood Huntington 1923
      House 750 Emerson Unknown architect 1916
      T. Robert Wagner House, 1617 Vine Street T. Robert Wagner 1909
    Derby, NY House 27 Monmouth Drive,
    Deal, New Jersey    		 Unknown C. 2008
    Dunbar, PA I.N. Hagan House, "Kentuck Knob"  723 Kentuck Road, Dunbar, PA Frank Lloyd Wright 1956
    Elkhart House 750 North Riverside Drive,
    Elkhart, Indiana    		 attrib. Enock Hill Turnock  
      House 760 North Riverside Drive,
    Elkhart, Indiana     		attrib. Enock Hill Turnock  
    Elkins Park, PA Beth Shalom Synagogue Elkins Park, PA Frank Lloyd Wright 1959
    Ft. Myers Kingston-Langford House First & Hough Streets Designer unknown 1919
    Ft Wayne John D. Haynes House 3901 N. Washington Road, Ft Wayne, Indiana Frank Lloyd Wright 1952
      J. B. Franke House 2131 Forest Park Boulevard Fort Wayne Barry Byrne  1914
             
    Gary Ingwald Moe House 669 Van Buren Street Frank Lloyd Wright 1910
    Grand Beach Ernest Vosburgh House 46208 Crescent Road Frank Lloyd Wright 1916
      Joseph Bagley House 47017 Lake View Frank Lloyd Wright 1916
    Grand Rapids

    J.H. Amberg House,

    		505 College Avenue Frank Lloyd Wright, Marion Mahony, Hermann V. Von Holst 1909
    450 Madison Avenue SE Frank Lloyd Wright 1908
    Hammond Lost Marsh Golf Clubhouse and Banquet Hall   American StructurePoint 2009
    Holland

    Marigold Lodge, (Egbert H. and Margaret J. Gold Summer House)

    		  1116 Marigold Avenue Thomas E. Tallmadge (Tallmadge & Watson)   1913
    Indianapolis Arthur Wolfe House  4136 North Meridian Street  Fermor Spencer Cannon  1924 
      Arthur Wolfe House - 4136 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana - Fermor Spencer Cannon - 1924
      Shea House - 4366 North Meridian Street Indianapolis, Indiana - Frank B. Hunter - 1922
      Carl F. Walk House - 4375 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana - Adolph Shermer - 1911
      Eric & Cathy Allen House - Brendonwood, Indianapolis, IN - 2009 
    Architect - Dale Sollenberger, Sollenberger Assoc., Carmel, IN
    Construction Manager - Dennis Collins, The Collins Group, Fishers, IN
    Indiana Shea House  4366 North Meridian Street  Frank B. Hunter  1922
      Carl F. Walk House  4375 North Meridian Street  Adolph Shermer  1911 
    Jacksonville Prairie Architecture in Jacksonville, FL - 1644 McDuff Ave. - Designed by Henry Taylor - circa 1915
      House at 2317 Oak Street, Jacksonville, FL  - Designed by WIlbur Bacon Camp - 1913
      House at  2528 Oak Street, Jacksonville, FL - 1921
      House at 2770 Oak Street, Jacksonville, FL - circa. 1914
      House at 1649 Osceola Ave., Jacksonville, FL - circa. 1914
      House at 2254 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, FL
      House at 2525 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, FL
      House at 2717 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, FL
      House at 2805 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, FL
      House at 2821 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, FL
      Arthur Chitty House @ 2953 Riverside Ave. - Designer unknown - 1918
      G. W. Byrne House @ 2973 Riverside Ave. - Henry A Taylor Designer - 1916
      C. B. Fitch House at 2981 Riverside Ave. - Designed by Ranson Buffalo - 1915-1916
      House at 3003 Riverside Ave. - Designed by Ranson Buffalo - circa 1915
      N. Wilson Redmond House at 3037 Riverside Ave. - Designer Unknown - circa. 1914
      Ranson Buffalo House at 3305 Riverside Ave. - Ranson Buffalo - 1922
       
    Kalamazoo Robert Levin House 2816 Taliesin Drive Frank Lloyd Wright 1949
      Robert Winn House 2822 Taliesin Drive Frank Lloyd Wright 1948
      Eric V Brown House 2806 Taliesin Drive Frank Lloyd Wright 1953
             
    Kansas City

    House

    		 810 Gleed Street Clarence E. Shepard 1922
     

    Amos C. Erman House

    		 3201 Karnes Blvd Shepard & Belcher architects 1916
     

    Mrs. H. M. Fowler House

    		 3205 Karnes Blvd Unknown 1923
     

    House

    		 3400 Karnes Blvd Architect unknown  
     

    House

    		 3800 Manheim Blvd Architect unknown  
     

    Louis R. Gates House

    		 4146 Cambridge Street Clarence E. Shepard 1923
      Frank J. Morgan House 200 W. 53rd Street Alice Jackson architect 1916
      House 604 Valentine Street, Architect unknown  
     

    Roy Colcord Morgan House

    		 201 W. 53rd Street Alice Jackson architect 1915
     

    Hovey House

    		215 W. 53rd Street Shepard & Belcher architect 1915
     

    Orion V. Dodge House

    		 5200 Wyandotte Street Leon G Middaugh architect 1918
     

    John J. Wolcott House

    		 5225 Wyandotte Street Shepard, Farrar & Wiser architects 1915
      William B. Lincoln Residence 45 W. Concord Street Architect unknown 1915
      House 405 W. 58th Street Architect unknown  
      House 621 W. 58th Street Architect unknown  
      House 646 W. 58th Street Architect unknown  
      House 811 W. 58th Street Architect unknown  
      Corrigan/Sutherland House 1200 W. 55th Street Louis Curtis architect 1913
             
    Kenosha
    Frank and Jane Isermann House
    		6500 Seventh Avenue
    Kenosha, WI    		 Designer: Russell Barr Williamson Built 1923
      Anthony and Caroline Isermann House 6416 Seventh Avenue,
    Kenosha, WI    		 Designer: Russell Barr Williamson Built 1922
    Kirkwood Russell and Ruth Kraus House 120 North Ballas Road Frank Lloyd Wright 1957
    Lake_Geneva Lake Geneva Public Library 918 W. Main Street, Lake Geneva , WI James R. Dresser - FLW protégé 1954
    Lakeland Florida Southern College Lakeland, Florida Frank Lloyd Wright 1938-1959
      William Danforth Chapel   Frank Lloyd Wright 1955
      Annie Pfeiffer Chapel   Frank Lloyd Wright 1939 - 1941
      Thad Buckner Building   Frank Lloyd Wright 1945
      Emile Watson Administration Building   Frank Lloyd Wright 1948
      Benjamin Fine Administration Building   Frank Lloyd Wright 1948
      Polk County Science Building   Frank Lloyd Wright 1958
      Lucius Pond Ordway Building   Frank Lloyd Wright 1952
      Carter Walbridge Hawkins Seminar Building   Frank Lloyd Wright  1941
      Covered Walkways and Terraces   Frank Lloyd Wright 1939 - 1958
      Roux Library      
    Logansport, IN House 3117 High Street, Logansport designer unknown  
    Los Angeles Charles Ennis House, 2655 Glendower Frank Lloyd Wright 1923
      Hollyhock House Barnsdall Park, Hollywood Blvd Frank Lloyd Wright 1919-1920
      John Storer House 8161 Hollywood Blvd. Frank Lloyd Wright 1923
    Madison, OH Karl Staley House  6363 Lake Road, Madison, Ohio Frank Lloyd Wright 1951
    Madison, WI Eugene Gilmore House 120 Ely Place Frank Lloyd Wright 1908
      Herbert Jacobs I House 441 Toepfer Frank Lloyd Wright 1936
      Edward C. Elliott House 137 North Prospect Avenue George W. Maher 1910
    Marion Dr. and Mrs. Richard Davis residence, 'Woodside' 1119 Overlook Road, Marion, Indiana Frank Lloyd Wright 1950 
    Memphis   1523 Goodbar Avenue architect unknown  
        1399 Carr Avenue    
        1400 Carr Avenue    
        1643 Carr Avenue    
        1595 Vinton Avenue    
    Milwaukee
    		American System Built Homes Model C3 1835 South Layton Blvd. Frank Lloyd Wright 1915
      Model B1 2714 West Burnham Street Frank Lloyd Wright 1915
      Model Flat C 2720-22 W. Burnham St. Frank Lloyd Wright 1915
      Model Flat C 2724-26 W. Burnham St. Frank Lloyd Wright 1915
      Model Flat C 2728-30 W. Burnham St. Frank Lloyd Wright 1915
      Model Flat C 2732-34 W. Burnham St. Frank Lloyd Wright 1915
       Bogk House 2420 North Terrace Ave. Frank Lloyd Wright 1916
      T. Robinson Bours House 2430 East Newberry Boulevard Russell Barr Williamson 1921
      Robert Closson Spencer, Sr. House 3307 No. Summit Ave., Robert C. Spencer, Jr. 1903
    Mill Run, PA Fallingwater Mill Run, PA Frank Lloyd Wright 1938
    Montclair, NJ 
         		Frederick Taylor Gates House, 66 South Mountain Road, Montclair, New Jersey -
    George W. Maher, 1902
    New York  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), New York -
    Frank Lloyd Wright - 1959
    Oberlin,Ohio Weltzheimer/Johnson House, Oberlin, Ohio - Frank Lloyd Wright 1947-48
    Ogden Dunes, IN  Andrew Armstrong House 43 Cedar Trail, Ogden Dunes, Indiana Frank Lloyd Wright 1939
    Pasadena
    Sylvanus B. Marsten House at 661 So El Molina Avenue, Pasadena, CA - Sylvanus B. Marsten - 1910
    House at 1001 No El Molina, Pasadena CA
    French House @ 1011 South Madison Ave. Pasadena, California - Sylvanus B. Marston - 1910
     
             
    Phoenix Norman Lykes House North 6836 36th Street Frank Lloyd Wright 1959
      Taliesen West Wright Blvd @ Cactus Frank Lloyd Wright  
      Arizona Biltmore Hotel   Frank Lloyd Wright  
    Plainfield,IN Triangle Fraternity Natl Hq - originally  a Carnegie Library, 120 Center St., Plainfield, IN -  built 1912
    Racine Thomas Hardy House 1319 South Main Street Frank Lloyd Wright 1905
    Rochester, NY Edward Boynton House, 16 East Blvd, Rochester, New York - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1908
    Santa Cruz House 332 Union Avenue   c. 1912
    San Diego House, 3220 Goldsmith, San Diego, California - unknown - 1914
      House, 3238 Goldsmith, San Diego, California - unknown - 1914
      House, 3252 Goldsmith, San Diego, California - unknown - c. 1914
     
    James Wood Coffroth House - 3279 Homer Ave- unknown architect - 1916
     

    House @ 2704 Evergreen Street, San Diego, CA - architect unknown, c. 1914
      Rebecca Schiller House @ 115 Redwood Street, San Diego, CA - Emmor Brooke Weaver - 1913
     

    Katherine Teats Cottage, 3560 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, CA - William Hebbard & Irving architects, 1905

    House @ 3578 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, CA - architect unknown, c. 1914

    House at 4130 Lark Street, San Diego, CA - Joel Brown architect - 1916
    San Jose Prairie architecture in San Jose, California - Sherwood Apartments @ 79 West Devine Street - 1916
      74 North 10th Street, San Jose, California - 1916
      Prussia Apartments @ 99 East Julien Street, San Jose, California - Wolfe & Wolfe - c.1912
      Harry Preston House @ 551 North 3rd Street, San Jose, California - 1917
      Ora Hart House @122 North 5th Street, San Jose, California
      Lewis Baker House @ 377 So 14th Street, San Jose, California - 1914
      Robert Stewart House @ 402 So 14th Street, San Jose, California - 1915
      Martin McDonough House @ 403 So 14th Street, San Jose, California - 1914
      Raymond Henkle House @ 390 So 15th Street, San Jose, California - 1914
      Carl Holmes House @ 310 So 15th Street, San Jose, California - 1914
      House @ 320 So 15th Street, San Jose, California - Unknown
      John Jones House @ 310 So 16th Street, San Jose, California - 1914
      David Rampe House @ 245 So 17th Street, San Jose, California - 1917
    San Rafael Marin County Civic Center, North San Pedro Road at U.S. 101
    San Rafael, California - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1957
     Taliesin Scottsdale Taliesin West -Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd @ Cactus, Scottsdale, AZ - Frank Lloyd Wright
      Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix, AZ - Frank Lloyd Wright
             
    Shorewood Bernard J. Neitschmann House 3934 North Harcourt Place Russell Barr Williamson 1921
     

    Nathan Stein House

    		 3965 North Harcourt Place, Russell Barr Williamson 1921
    Spring Green Taliesin East Estate Highway 23 and County Road C Frank Lloyd Wright  
      Taliesin East Hillside School      
     Springfield, Ohio Burton J. Wescott House, 1340 High Street, Springfield, Ohio - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1905
    St Joseph Ina Morris Harper House 207 Sunnybank Frank Lloyd Wright 1959
    St Petersburg House 834 6th Street architect unknown  
    Tampa

    Henry Leiman House

    		716 South Newport Avenue Malachi Leo Elliott 1916
      Tampania House, (also known as the Arnold S. Kirkeby House) 4611 West North A Street architect unknown 1927
    Tucson Fred Ronstadt House, 607 N. 6th Ave., Tucson, AZ - Henry C. Trost architect, 1904
      Robert N. Goodrich House, 645 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ - Henry C. Trost architect, 1909
    Waikapu, Maui King Kamehameha Golf Club Waikapu, Maui Frank Lloyd Wright 1949
             
    Wauwatosa
      George J. Lexa House  2208 N. 65th St. Russell Barr Williamson 1922
    George Delonge House 6735 W. Cedar St. Emil Brodelle 1912
      Alex P. Bimo House 7104 W. Cedar Ct. Russell Barr Williamson 1921
      Frank J. Hoye House 6911 W. Aetna Ct. " 1920
      Anthony Siegl House 7101 W. Aetna Ct. " 1920
      Herbert Sweers House 7111 W. Aetna Ct. " 1920
    Fred H. Straus House 7123 W. Aetna Ct. " 1917
      Ernest Watson House 7127 W. Maple Terrace " 1923
      Clark L. Dunlop House 6937 W. Wellauer " 1921
      Ralph Sporlender Duplex 1639-41 N. 69th " 1922
      James Mackey House 2014 N. 83rd " 1923
    West Lafayette
    Purdue State Bank Building - (Now Chase), 210 State St., West Lafayette, IN -  built 1914 -
    Louis H. Sullivan architect
    Whiting Whiting High School 1751 Oliver Street, Whiting, Indiana Perkins & Hamilton 1909

    Williams Bay 
    Barrett Williams House 45 Parkhurst Place Williams Bay, Wisconsin - 1902
    House at 33 Liechty Drive, Williams Bay, Wisconsin - unknown - modern era
     
             
     
     
    bullet Walter Burley Griffin Society of America web site. Our mission is to preserve the legacy of architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin and the Prairie School of Architecture.
    bullet Walter Burley Griffin Society Incorporated of Australia
    bullet http://www.pbs.org/wbgriffin/index.htm - WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN: IN HIS OWN RIGHT from PBS
    bullet Walter Burley Griffin Profile on Prairie Styles.com
     
    Other Cool & Informative Architecture Sites
    bullet Chicago Landmarks - Architects Page
    bullet Farnsworth House - Built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951 and located near Plano, Illinois, is one of the most famous examples of modernist domestic architecture.
    bullet GreatBuildings.com/
    bullet http://www.pbs.org/wbgriffin/mueller.htm
    bullet Prairie School Traveler by John Panning
     Prairie School Traveler  -  Comprehensive informative site about Prairie School properties by John Panning of Lake City, Iowa
    bullet PrairieStyles.com by Tim Loftus
    bullet Prairie Style House on Old House Web
    bullet Repeat by Lynn Becker  - writings on architecture.
    bullet John S. Van Bergen Site by Martin Hackl - http://www.re-building.com/johnvanbergen/title.html
    bullet Walter Burley Griffin Society of America web site. Our mission is to preserve the legacy of architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin and the Prairie School of Architecture.
    bullet Marion Mahony Griffin Site - http://www.marionmahonygriffin.org/ - by Marty Hackl
    bullet Prairie Avenue Bookshop. An independent bookstore in downtown Chicago serving those interested in architecture and design, whether students, professionals, or general enthusiasts.
    bullet Harry Franklin Robinson profile on Prairiestyles.com
    bullet SydneyArchitecture.com/
     

    Characteristics of the Prairie Style home from Prairie Style House on Old House Web

    • Hipped roof (sometimes gabled), pitched low
    • Roof with extended lines and oversized eaves
    • Strong horizontal lines
    • Entrance is typically secluded; only people coming to see you would know how to get in
    • Windows are set in groups (sometimes with art glass) and in geometric shapes
    • Window placement is intricate part of design; their placement is thoughtfully arranged
    • House appears to grow out of the ground; very low and close to the terrain
    • Open interior spaces
    • Central chimney massing
     
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