The Trust’s rentable learning kits provide all the hands-on materials needed to bring Frank Lloyd Wright and design to your classroom. Each themed kit includes objects and materials that connect to resources and lessons available at teachingbydesign.org. Pair the kit with an online lesson or use the materials for your own design activity. Kits should be reserved at least 1 month in advance with a credit card.
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All learning kits can be converted into virtual workshops where a Trust educator will lead your class through the…
A fall restoration project is underway at Wright’s Oak Park Home and Studio. Over the next few weeks, the wood shingle roof will be replaced, as well as shingles on the east and south gables of the house. Two chimneys will be tuckpointed—one over Wright’s Library and the other over his Drafting Room.
Oak Park contractor Von Dreele-Freerksen Construction Company is handling the work. They are well-known in Oak Park with over 30 years of experience restoring historic homes. They have worked on over 25 Frank Lloyd Wright homes.
The first phase of restoration work has begun, with project…
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Date: 1910
Address: 509 Shelby Street, Frankfurt, KY
City: Frankfort, Kentucky
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Wright met Reverend Jesse R. Ziegler, a Presbyterian minister, while abroad in Europe. The house Wright designed for him is a close derivation of his “Fireproof House for $5,000,” with the addition of a screen and piers to conceal the front entrance and porches off the living and dining rooms. The design was refined and constructed while Wright was in Italy. Marion Mahony and Herman von Holst may have been…
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Date: 1898
City: River Forest, Illinois
Category: Recreational
Restoration Status: Demolished
Wright designed several recreational clubs in his early career. His first, the River Forest Golf Club, was initially conceived of as a simple T-shaped structure with a porch, assembly hall, and club room on its central access, and dressing rooms with pavilions projecting from its transept. Wright expanded and reconfigured the Club in 1901, replacing the semicircular club room found on the original plan with a larger octagonal lounge, and…
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Date: 1906
Address: 615 Lathrop Avenue, River Forest, IL 60305
City: River Forest, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Recreational
Links: www.rftc.org
Wright was commissioned to design the River Forest Tennis Club, a social and recreational facility to which he belonged as a member, after the organization’s original building was destroyed by fire. In Wright’s design, the low, elongated, single-story structure is clad in board-and batten siding that contributes to the dominate…
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Date: 1892
Address: 109 S. 8th Ave., La Grange, IL
City: La Grange, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: 1935 - the terraces were enlarged and enclosed
The Robert Emmond house was another of Wright’s “bootleg” houses— independent projects that he undertook while employed by Adler and Sullivan. Wright’s bootleg houses share much in common, including square plans, strong geometric forms, and minimal decoration. Elements like the octagonal bays and projecting dormers, as well as the asymmetrical…
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Date: 1903
Address: 22 North Butler Street, Madison, Wisconsin
City: Madison, Wisconsin
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
A childhood friend of Wright’s, Robert Lamp commissioned Rocky Roost, a summer cottage on Lake Mendota, from the architect in 1893. When Lamp contracted Wright to design his new residence in 1903, the architect was fully immersed in several large projects in Buffalo, New York, including the prominent Larkin Administration…
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Date: 1893
Address: Governor’s Island, Lake Mendota, Wisconsin
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: Altered in 1901 and subsequently destroyed by fire in 1934/1935
Located on Governor’s Island in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota—not far from Wright’s birthplace—the Robert Lamp summer cottage sat on an outcrop only slightly removed from the placid lake. It was designed for Wright’s childhood friend, Robert Lamp. Initially only one story, the cottage was modified to include a second level and surrounding veranda around the turn of the…
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Date: 1892
Address: Chicago Ave, Oak Park, Illinois
City: Oak Park, IL
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Similar in plan and design to the Emmond house, the Robert Parker house is defined by bold, geometric forms. An octagonal turret stands adjacent to the entrance which is sheltered by a shallow overhanging eave. The entrance leads to an octagonal reception room, library, and dining room on the left. The second floor features four bedrooms and a bathroom. The house was originally commissioned by Walter and Thomas Gale…
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With support of the Getty Foundation’s Keeping It Modern initiative, the Trust announces a new Conservation Management Plan for the Frederick C. Robie House. The plan documents the past, present, and future of Robie House research and conservation management and presents a defining vision for the preservation of Wright’s iconic Prairie house for generations to come.
READ THE ROBIE HOUSE CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN >>
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Date: 1898
Address: 515 Fair Oaks Avenue, Oak Park IL
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: open porch enclosed, new wood-shingled roof, gutters and downspouts
A wedding gift from Furbeck’s father, the house was the second residence Wright designed for the Furbeck family. In 1897, Rollin Furbeck’s brother George commissioned a home in Oak Park from the architect. Open porches at the sides of the front and rear façades, as well as a porte cochère at the rear of the…
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Date: 1897
City: Spring Green, Wisconsin
Accessibility: Public
Links: http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/
Restoration Status: Demolished in 1990. A replica of Wright’s design stands in place of the original, however, the stone base and capped roof were salvaged and reused for the new construction.
Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones, Wright’s aunts, founded the Hillside Home School as a progressive boarding school in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Wright, with the help of his mentor Joseph Lyman Silsbee, designed a Shingle Style structure to…
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Date: 1903
Address: Oak Park Avenue and Lake Street
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Public
Restoration Status: Original demolished, replica installed in 1969
Designed as a public sculpture for Oak Park’s Scoville Park, the fountain, which is variously referred to as the Scoville Park Fountain and the Horse Show Fountain, was developed by Wright in collaboration with sculptor Richard Bock. Between 1903 and 1910, Bock worked almost exclusively for Wright in the stimulating environment of the Oak Park Studio. The sculptor’s…
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Date: 1900
City: Chicago, Illinois
Category: Residential
Accessibility: Private
Designed in the same year as Wright’s seminal Bradley and Hickox houses, the Foster Cottage is less audacious in concept, and is more closely aligned with Wright’s buildings of the early 1890s. In place of the dynamic floor plans of its contemporaries, the Foster Cottage utilizes a square plan and wood siding similar to Wright’s earlier “bootleg” houses. The dramatic, outward flare of the ridges on the roof and dormers evokes…
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Date: 1907
Address: 345 S 7th Avenue, La Grange, IL
City: La Grange, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
In contrast to Wright’s lavish design for the Avery Coonley house of the same year, the Stephen M. B. Hunt house is exceedingly modest in scale. Its square-shaped plan closely replicates that of Wright’s “A Fireproof House for $5,000,” which was published in the Ladies Home Journal in 1907. Wright wrote that the “Fireproof House” was “trimmed to the last ounce of the superfluous” and emphasized its practical…
This brand-new 3-night, 4-day summer sojourn starts in Chicago and heads north along the lake, taking in the S.C. Johnson Complex, Wingspread and the 1905 Hardy House in Racine; then heads west to Madison’s Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, The First Unitarian Society Church and the Jacobs 1 House, the birthplace of Usonia.