The Oak Park Home and Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright [SOLD]

The Oak Park Home and Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

Written by Ann Abernathy

Designed by John G. Thorpe

48 pages, Published by Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, 2001.

From the Text

“Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked in Oak Park from 1889 until 1909.  He raised six children with his first wife, Catherine, in the home and began his remarkable seventy-year career in the adjacent studio.  Here Wright created a wholly new form of American architecture known as the Prairie style because it reflects the landscape of the midwestern plains.  Through frequent additions and modifications, Wright’s Oak Park home and studio served as the first testing ground for his imaginative genius.  A tour of the building moves from the early home to the later studio, a sequence that reveals the evolving ideas of his first twenty years in practice and the origin of the principles he was to develop throughout the rest of his career.”