Wright in Chicagoland

Maywood Historic House Walk - July 12, 2009

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The North Maywood Community Organization (NoMCO) is having their Historic House Walk and Trolley Tour on Sunday July 12, 2009.

This is a great opportunity to see some of the historic homes in Maywood, Illinois 60153

Tickets are $15.00 per person and the tour meets at the First Congregational Church located at the Northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Erie starting at 1:00pm and ending at 5:00pm.

NoMCO www.nomco.org

Tour la Minatura - January 26, 2008

2008-01-18T09:23:00.000-08:00

Friends of the Gamble House are hosting a tour of La Minatura in Pasadena on Saturday, January 26, 2008, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Here is an extraordinary opportunity to tour Wright’s unique textile-block commission, La Miniatura (1923), originally envisioned as a Mayan ruin set in a jungle ravine. Rarely open to the public, this spectacular private home is a restoration in progress.

Tour the main house, a mysterious and exotic blend of wood, stone and ironwork, and Lloyd Wright’s studio building, added in 1926.

Lunch, available for purchase, will be served in the gardens in the shadow of La Miniatura.

Frank Lloyd Wright said of this commission, “I would rather have built this little house than St. Peter’s in Rome”

Frank Lloyd Wright tour Jan. 26, $50 and $30 for students and FOGH members; lunch $20

The William Boswell House is on the market

2008-01-17T10:22:00.000-08:00

The William Boswell House a 5,500 square toot Usonian-style ranch has been listed with an asking price of $3.4 million.

The Cincinnati area home is often called the "lost house" of Frank Lloyd Wright.

For information: Carol Harris and Sheila Miller, Comey & Shepherd Realtors, 513-561-5800.

Take the Robie House Geek Tour

2008-01-02T14:44:00.000-08:00

A specialty tour of the Robie House on January 26th and also February 26th gives visitors a look at how Wright was ahead of his time . The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) tour, allows the visitor to analyze historic plans and construction photographs, assess building and design technologies of 1910 and see them in contrast to current technologies.

Explore how Wright?s revolutionary concepts were translated through innovative use of materials and construction. Geek's Guide to Wright's Robie House

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 12

2007-12-25T08:35:00.000-08:00

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio was started in 1889. The house was modified with the addition of a playroom in 1893 and the adjacent studio in 1898.

Merry Christmas to all!

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 11

2007-12-24T07:16:00.000-08:00

For Christmas Eve here is the William E. Martin House built in Oak Park, Illinois in 1903.

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 10

2007-12-23T15:02:00.000-08:00

The Harry S. Adams House was built in 1913. This was the last Frank Lloyd Wright house built in Oak Park, Illinois.

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 9

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Wright designed this Prairie Style house for Oscar Balch in 1911. Its located on Kenilworth Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 8

2007-12-21T09:51:00.000-08:00

This Prairie Style house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1909. The J. Kibben Ingalls House is located in River Forest, Illinois.

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 7

2007-12-20T12:36:00.000-08:00

All decked out for the holidays is the Chauncey Williams House located in River Forest, Illinois.

This house was built in 1895 at a time when Frank Lloyd Wright was experimenting with new ideas.

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 6

2007-12-19T12:13:00.000-08:00

Located across the street from the Heurtley House on Forest Avenue is the Hills-DeCaro House. This is a remodeling job done by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1906 and has many Prairie Style traits, stucco exterior, horizontal banding and

large overhanging eaves. The Japanese influenced roof line was popular with Wright at the time.

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 5

2007-12-18T07:32:00.000-08:00

The Arthur Heurtley House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1902. The home is located on Forest Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois just down the block from Wright's home & studio.

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 4

2007-12-17T12:32:00.000-08:00

The George W. Smith house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in Oak Park, Illinois in 1898.

Not a Prairie Style home it does show some of the influences with the large overhanging eaves. It has a shingle exterior and a Japanese influenced roof line.

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 3

2007-12-16T10:56:00.000-08:00

The Laura R. Gale house was built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1909. Located in Oak Park, Illinois.

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas - Day 2

2007-12-15T10:00:00.000-08:00

Day 2 brings us the Joseph Jacob Walser, Jr. house built in 1903. This house is located in Chicago's Austin neighborhood and shows many traits of the mature Prairie Style.

Twelve days of Wright for Christmas

2007-12-14T09:15:00.000-08:00

Just for fun I have been taking some photo's of Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes after the recent snow.

For day #1 here is the William Winslow House located in River Forest, Illinois. The house was designed by Wright and built in 1893 and shows some early traits of the Prairie Style.

FLW in Japan

2006-02-25T06:37:00.000-08:00

Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with Japanese prints in the late 1880s, praising their design and composition, and in particular their "elimination of the insignificant." While designing 12 projects in Japan and overseeing the construction of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Wright found time to explore this magical country, always searching for hidden treasures.

You can take a 12-day exploration sponsored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust to see how Japan influenced the master during the formative years of his career. Tour three of Wright's remaining Japanese buildings and stay at the Imperial Hotel. For more information: www.wrightplus.org.

Create a house with Frank Lloyd Wright

2006-02-21T08:00:00.000-08:00

One of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust's most popular programs is the Youth Architecture Workshop, held every summer in the drafting room of Wright's first studio in Oak Park, Illinois. Young people in grades 7 through 12 learn architectural and design principles as they create their own buildings and get acquainted with the ideas of one of the world's most influential architects. With Architect Studio 3D, the Preservation Trust brings to young architects everywhere the exciting process of designing a home — hands-on. Starting as real architects do, with a client who has lifestyle preferences and a site that has its own environmental considerations, you will use your imagination to design your own architectural solutions.

Check out the Architect Studio 3D from The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust

Frank's Home to open at the Goodman Theatre

2006-02-20T07:45:00.000-08:00

Frank's Home will be presented first at The Goodman in November-December 2006, followed by Playwrights Horizons in early 2007

According to Goodman and PH, "It is summer, 1923, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright has recently left Chicago for California — the edge of the continent — determined to embrace Hollywood's youthful zest, mend broken relationships with his adult children and revive his career. He has recently enjoyed the successful completion of his latest 'wonder of the world' —Tokyo's Imperial Hotel — and is now poised to settle down and embrace his new home. But splintered family still has deep-seeded resentments.

Then news arrives of an earthquake in Japan that has crumbled his prized hotel to the ground. Or has it?

A stunning new play from one of America's best contemporary playwrights, Frank's Home is a lyrical, heartbreaking story about one of our greatest, if less than perfect, visionaries — a man who created a new architectural vocabulary, but couldn't create a home for himself and his family."

Read the entire article at Playbill

New York Approves Renewal Project in Buffalo

2006-01-25T07:58:00.000-08:00

The State Assembly has also committed $1 million each towards the new Frank Lloyd Wright Rowing Boathouse, and Frank Lloyd Wright Filling Station at the Buffalo Transportation/Pierce-Arrow Museum, both previously unbuilt Wright designs. The boathouse will provide a home for the West Side Rowing Club, the nation’s largest rowing club. Wright’s design for the boathouse was originally included in his Wasmuth Portfolio series of distinctive Prairie Style lithograph designs. The winged Tydol Filling Station will be constructed on the campus of the Buffalo Transportation/Pierce-Arrow Museum.

Read the entire article at Interior Design

The owner wants to rebuild Wynant House

2006-01-20T07:26:00.000-08:00

The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Wynant House was a derelict, weather-beaten mess that had been quietly rotting away in a Gary neighborhood awash in poverty. Then it burned to a husk.

Now owner David Muhammad, a construction executive, says he wants to rebuild it.

Read the entire Chicago Tribune article.

Another Part of the Legacy Gone

2006-01-18T14:40:00.000-08:00

I drove out to Gary this afternoon to see what remains of the Wynant House. Fire has gutted the entire structure. It would be nice to believe that it could still be saved, but I think its a total loss.

Preservation Online noted that the two-story stucco house was one of only 11 of Wright's American System-Built houses, an affordable modular line the architect produced with the Wisconsin-based Richards Co. The Wynant House was the last model of its kind.

Read the entire Margaret Foster article at Preservation Online

2006-01-18T14:36:00.000-08:00

Wynant House Destroyed

Wilburt Wynant House destroyed by fire

2006-01-17T14:39:00.000-08:00

One of the last remaining examples of Frank Lloyd Wright's venture into precut homes was destroyed by fire January 9, 2006. The Wilburt Wynant House at 600 Fillmore in Gary, Indiana was an example of a American System Built Home. At the time of the fire the Wynant House was in the process of restoration by a nonpofit group.

The City of Buffalo and Frank Lloyd Wright Tourism

2006-01-16T01:07:00.000-08:00

Buffalo is hoping that their association with the works of FLW will mean increased tourism. As the home to the demolished Larkin Building, Martin House and the new Blue Sky Mausoleum, the city gets its fair share of FLW fans as tourists. But what about the general public? Will FLW be a tourism draw?

"There is a large collection of Frank Lloyd Wright followers who will find out what's going on in Buffalo on their own," said Ron Scherubel, executive director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy in Forest Park, Ill. "What you want to attract are the people who don't follow Wright as closely."

Read the entire article in the Buffalo News