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Date: 1902
City: Lake Delavan, Delavan, Wisconsin
Accessibility: Private
Category: Recreational
Restoration status: Demolished
Wright’s design for the Delavan Lake Yacht Club departs dramatically from his earlier scheme for the Mendota boathouse, which also served as a recreational facility. While the Mendota boathouse referenced the Beaux-…
Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois are two vibrant suburban communities to the west of Chicago. Historically and architecturally renowned, the villages’ proximity to the city has made the area a premier destination for visitors from all over the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright spent the first 20 years of his life and career in the area, which is home to the largest collection of his buildings and attracts thousands of guests annually. Several other local luminaries called Oak Park River Forest home over the years, including writer Ernest Hemingway, chemist Percy Julian, novelist Edgar Rice…
The Trust offers a specialized collection of photographic resources available for study purposes and for publication. These images include historic photographs, restoration documentation and current photography of the Trust’s sites, as well as historic images of Frank Lloyd Wright, his family, and both historic and contemporary images of selected buildings designed by Wright’s Oak Park Studio.
Please note: The online digital image collection is not available at this time. The Trust plans to make the digital image collection accessible again in 2025.
Selected images are available as digital…
Salary: $64,000 - $68,000
Supervisor’s Title: President & CEO
Employees supervised: Trust Educators, Librarian, Archivist
Work Summary:
Working with others, creates, implements, and evaluates Trust education programs for young people, families, adults, educators and other audiences. Oversees operation of Trust library reading room and archives.
Duties:
Sets goals for educational programming and provides oversight for the development, and management of new and existing programs for all audiences. Advances the Trust’s local, national, and international education objectives.
Oversees…
Join the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust on an inaugural journey filled with Art, Architecture and Nature. Enjoy the waning days of summer on this two-night, three-day weekend getaway, which includes a private dinner at Crystal Bridges, lunch at the privately owned Faubus House, and more.
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Date: 1902
Address: 1014 Hinman St, Evanston IL
City: Evanston, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration status: Wright’s renovation destroyed by fire in 1959.
Wright’s renovations to the Dr. A. W. Herbert house, which entailed the enclosure of the front porch and other modifications to the facade, were destroyed by a fire in 1959. His architectural drawings were also damaged by fire, rendering it difficult to ascertain how he intervened in the building’s original design.
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Date: 1892
City: Chicago, IL
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: Destroyed by a fire in 1963.
According to Wright, the Harlan house marked the true inception of his career. He believed its design was uncompromised by external influences, and, indeed, the house featured many innovations that would become distinct hallmarks of his residential work. The building was oriented on the northern periphery of its lot so as to maximize its exposure to natural light on the south. Wright employed cantilevers to sustain the house’s…
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Date: 1894
Address:
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Category: Residential
Restoration Status: Demolished in 1922
Wright adapted this Oak Park residence for Dr. H.W. Bassett, a homeopathic physician, as an office and living space. He modified the first floor to house waiting, examining, and operating rooms, and expanded the roofline so that it reached over the second story-windows. Like the Francis Wooley house, the exterior of the Basset house featured a bipartite surface treatment: shingle-and-batten siding extended to the sill of the…
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Date: 1909
Address: 400 Forest Avenue, Oak Park, IL
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Constructed in 1875, the Copeland house was built in the popular Italianate style. William Copeland, a physician and manufacturer of patent medicines, commissioned Wright to remodel the garage in 1908, and house in 1909. Wright proposed a number of renovations aimed at opening the interior spaces to more natural light and giving both structures a simplified, horizontal…
Experience and explore Dutch Modernism on Travel Wright’s inaugural visit to the Netherlands. Renowned for its townhouses, merchants' mansions and picturesque bridges and canals, Amsterdam is a city that melds 17th century historic charm with important modernist design.
Experience and explore Dutch Modernism on Travel Wright’s inaugural visit to the Netherlands. Renowned for its townhouses, merchants' mansions and picturesque bridges and canals, Amsterdam is a city that melds 17th century historic charm with important modernist design.
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Date: 1905
City: River Forest, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
Restoration status: Demolished (year unknown)
The E. A. Cummings Real Estate Office was a small commercial building. Its low roof sat just above a tall, broad wall at the front of the structure. The wall’s length and close proximity to the office building distorted the scale of the structure, making it appear larger than it actually was. Signage painted directly onto the expansive planes of the wall promoted the real estate…
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Date: 1908
City: Madison, Wisconsin
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
In contrast to many of Wright’s Prairie houses, which are characterized by an overriding horizontality, the E. A. Gilmore house is defined by a monolithic verticality. Its unusual form is a result of the topographic features of the land on which it sits. The house is positioned on a hill and its interior spaces are organized along two axes that intersect at a centrally located fireplace. Sharply pointed, prow-like balconies project from the dining…
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Date: 1901
Address: 559 Ashland Ave., River Forest, IL
City: River Forest, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
In 1901, Wright’s design for “A Small House with ‘Lots of Room in It,’” was published in the Ladies’ Home Journal. The speculative plan for a suburban residence shares much in common with the E. Arthur Davenport house, including gabled roofs with dramatic flared eaves. In discussing his plan for “A Small House,” Wright stated it, “disregards somewhat the economical limit in compact planning to take…
Date: 1908
City: Glencoe, Illinois
Category: Utilitarian
Restoration status: Demolished
Wright prepared preliminary designs for a house and detached stable for Edmund Brigham in 1908, however they were not realized until 1915. The stable had a large room for carriages, three stalls for horses, a service area, and a paddock. It was eventually demolished and only a single drawing survives.
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Date: 1902
City: Sapper Island, Desbarats, Ontario, Canada
Accessibility: Private
Category: Residential
In 1902, E.H. Pitkin, a Chicago businessman, commissioned Wright to design a two-story summer cottage on his eighteen-acre property on Sapper Island, a remote vacation destination in Canada. Situated on a rocky crag and featuring a first floor veranda that wraps around its north, west, and south elevations, the structure affords expansive views of Lake Huron. Like many of Wright’s designs for cottages, the…
Date: 1905
Address: 3017 W. Carroll Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
City: Chicago, Illinois
Accessibility: Private
Category: Commerical
Wright designed the E-Z Polish factory for the production, storage, and distribution of the Martin and Martin Polish Company’s shoe and stove polishes. The company was owned by William E. Martin, for whom Wright designed a house in Oak Park in 1903, and Darwin Martin, who commissioned a number of large-scale projects in Buffalo, New York, including a private residence and the Larkin Administration Building. The E-Z Polish…
Job Type: Part-time (Non-exempt), Intern, 15 hours per week
Salary: $16.50-$17,00 per hour
Supervisor’s Title: Manager for Education
Employees supervised: None
Work Summary:
The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Education Department is looking for an intern for an 8-week program at Wright’s iconic Home and Studio. In this internship, you’ll be working closely with the Trust’s education department giving tours to K-12 audiences, assisting with our Summer Camp programming, creating your own unique project with education staff assistance, and helping the education staff with daily duties.
Dates…
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Date: 1900
Address: 313 Forest Avenue, Oak Park, IL
City: Oak Park, Illinois
Category: Residential
Accessibility: Private
Restoration status: Rebuilt after fire in 1976
In 1900, Wright’s client, Nathan Moore, purchased the house neighboring his own as a gift for his daughter, Mary, and her husband Edward R. Hills. Wright subsequently remodeled the 1883 building. His modifications entailed reorienting the structure on its site, the addition of two verandas on the first floor, and finishing the exterior of the house in stucco with…