OTHER HOMES
HARRY S. ADAMS RESIDENCE (1913 - S.179) Date: Circa 1914 Title: Harry S. Adams Residence (1913 - S.179)
Description: Wright’s first proposal was more extensive than the finished project, and was dated September 4, 1912. Wright’s second proposal was dated May 31, 1913. Both were rejected as too elaborate, and the third scaled down proposal was one of Wright’s last prairie homes to be completed. 710 Augusta Blvd., Oak Park. Viewed from across the street. Photographed by Henry Fuermann.
Size: Original 10 x 6.75 B&W photograph.
S#: 0124.16.0112
Date: 1975 Title: Harry S. Adams Residence (1913 - S.179)
Description: Wright’s first proposal was more extensive than the finished project, and was dated September 4, 1912. Wright’s second proposal was dated May 31, 1913. Both were rejected as too elaborate, and the third scaled down proposal was one of Wright’s last prairie homes to be completed. Stamped on verso: "Apr 14, 1975. Chicago Tribune. Photo by Hardy Wieting." Clipping pasted to verso: "Distinctive Frank Lloyd Wright homes in Oak Park slated for restoration include the Gale house and Adams house. Tribune Photos by Hardy Wieting." Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Tribune.
Size: Original 10 x 6.75 B&W photograph.
S#: 1996.12.0112
PETER A. BEACHY RESIDENCE (1906 - S.117) Date: 1959 Title: Peter A. Beachy Residence Remodel, Oak park (1906 - S.117) 1959
Description: Label on verso: "Date: 12 Aug ‘59. Photographer: Gekler. Title: Wright Homes. Location: Oak Park. Caption: Home at 238 Forest Ave, Oak Park." Clipping on verso: "Oak Park home built early in the century has gabled roofs instead of the flat overhanging roofs which later characterized Wright’s prairie houses. It is now the home of Mr. And Mrs. Wallace W. Tudor. (Stamped) Aug 23 1959." Also stamped on verso: "Daily News, Jun 6 1964". Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Daily News.
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W Print
S#: 1377.39.0310
WILLIAM G. FRICKE RESIDENCE (1901 - S.058) Date: 1977 Title: William G. Fricke Home (1901 S.058) 1977
Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright’s William G. Fricke home at 540 Fair Oaks is subject for lookers and photographers on tour of seven Wright-designed structures and three others designed by colleagues of his. Photographer Graff. Date 5/21/77. Subject: Frank Lloyd Wright Tour." Sun-Times Caption pasted on verso dated May 22, 1977 "It’s the Wright look. The William G. Fricke home at 540 Fair Oaks, Oak Park, has its share of admirers Saturday. It was one of seven Oak Park homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and three others designed by his colleagues open for inspection on a tour sponsored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation, 951 Chicago. Some 2,200 persons paid $15 each to tour the structures. The fund will go to restore the Wright home and the studio’s dining room." Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News.
Size: Original 10.75 x 7.75 B&W print.
S#: 2033.02.0210
Date: 1981 Title: William G. Fricke Home (1901 S.058) 1981
Description: "Fricke House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the homes on the 1981 Wright Plus house tour. Chicago Sun-Times. Photographer Perry C. Riddle. Date 4/23/81. Location 540 Fair Oaks, Oak Park." Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News.
Size: Original 10 x 6.75 B&W print.
ST#: 1981.21.0210
GEORGE FURBECK RESIDENCE (1897 - S.043) Date: 1975 Title: George Furbeck Residence (1897, S.043) 1975.
Description: Warren Furbeck purchased a lot in Oak Park, and commissioned Wright to build a home for his Son George W. Furbeck. George Furbeck was an electrical contractor, working in Chicago. On April 9, 1897 the Oak Park Reporter announced that George Furbeck would be erecting a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home on the site his father had purchased five years earlier. On June 29, 1897, two weeks after ground was broken on his new home, Furbeck married Sue Allin Harrington of Michigan. Stamped on verso: "Mar 11 1975. Chicago Tribune. Photo by Ray Gora." Pasted on verso: "George Furbeck House, 1897, 223 N. Euclid Av., Oak Park." Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Tribune.
Size: Original 10 x 7.1 B&W print.
S#: 1996.11.0112
Date: 1975 Title: George Furbeck Residence (1897, S.043) 1975
Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright homes, Exterior. Note: Front room (at right) was originally a courtyard. 223 H. (N) Euclid, Oak Park. Daily News Photographer Riddle. Date 9/8/75. Field Enterprises, Inc." In 1922 the courtyard and open front porch were enclosed. The courtyard walls were used as the exterior walls. The existing roof over the open front porch was used and extended. A third floor dormer was also added at a later date. Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News.
Size: Original 10 x 7.25 B&W print
S#: 1996.03.0210
Date: 1975 Title: George Furbeck Residence Fireplace, Oak Park (1897, S.043) 1975.
Description: Label on verso: "Daily News Photog: Riddle. Date: 9/8/75. Slug: Frank Lloyd Wright house. Location: 223 H. (N) Euclid, Oak Park. Caption: Fireplace in Dining Room." Stamped on verso: "Perry C. Riddle". Also stamped on verso: "Sep 1975, Field Enterprises, Inc." From the archives of the Chicago Sun Times.
Size: 5 x 7.25 Print, High res image.
S#: 1996.04.0410
THOMAS GALE RESIDENCE (1892 - S.016) Date: 1898 Title: Halley’s Pictorial Oak Park (Digital Edition) (Published by William Halley, Oak Park, IL)
Author: Halley, William
Description: The history of Oak Park, Illinois up through 1898. Includes information and a biography of Alonzo W. Pebbles, one of the original founders of Pebbles & Balch. Also indicates that Anna L. Wright and Catherine L Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright’s mother and wife) were on the board of the Nineteenth Century Club (P 84). This copy originally belonged to Thomas H. Gale, "Real Estate and Loans". Gale was an early client of Wright's in 1892 and 1897. This copy courtesy of the University of Illinois Library, at Urbana-Champaign. See our Wright Study on the Pebbles & Balch Remodel.
Size: 5.25 x 3.5 (Digital Edition.)
Pages: Pp 128
S#: 0032.05.1111
MRS. THOMAS GALE RESIDENCE (1904 - S.098) Date: 1969 Title: Mrs. Thomas Gale Residence (1904 S.098) 1969
Description: Stamped on verso: "Daily News, Jun 12 1969. Article on verso: "By Susan Root. Living in a Frank Lloyd Wright house these days requires a little suffering for the sake of art. But many feel the experience is worth it. ¶ Among them is Chicago architect Howard A. Rosenwinkel, who lives with his wife and four children in a home at 6 Elizabeth Court, Oak Park, that has been called "Wright’s solution to the small house." ¶ Some of the sacrifices they are making to maintain architectural "purity" include living with sloping floors and settled window panels of lovely leaded glass that leave a quarter-inch opening for winter winds to whistle through. ¶ Then there are the radiators hidden behind grates that look attractive but five little heat in the living room, a single bathroom for a family of six and total lack of insulation. ¶ What makes it worth it is the architect’s pleasure in living in a house of such prefect scale and proportions. ¶ "The flow of space and the detailing in this house are unique." explains Mrs. Rosenwinkel. Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Daily News.
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W print
S#: 1803.05.0310
Date: Circa 1985 Title: Mrs. Thomas Gale House, Oak Park, Illinois - 1909
Description: “Mrs. Thomas Gale House, Oak Park, Illinois - 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright, architect" (Published exclusively for the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation, 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois 60302. #FllW-1 631561) Not Dated. Pub. By H. K. Barnett, Allison Park, Pa. 15101. With its cantilevered flat roof, projecting balconies, bands of casement windows wrapping around corners, and cream colored stucco walls, the Gale house was unique in Wright’s work and a forerunner of the Kaufmann house “Fallingwater” of 1936. Photo by Don Kalec.
Size: 6 x 4
ST#: 1985.20.0806
Date: 1991 Title: Mrs. Thomas Gale Residence (1904 S.098) 1991.
Description: Mrs. Thomas Gale Residence (1904 S.098) 1991. Label on verso: "Chicago Sun-Times. Photographer: Rich Heid. Date 5-15-91. Location: 6 Elizabeth Ct. Oak Park. Reporter: Neil Steinberg. Caption: Thomas Gale House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Owner Peter & Meg Klinkow got a permit to put up aluminum siding to demonstrate the city’s need for a law protecting famous buildings." Clipping pasted to verso: "Mae and Peter Klinkow of Oak Park obtained a permit to put up aluminum siding on their home – the Thomas Gale House, 6 Elizabeth Ct., which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright – to demonstrate their position that the city needs an ordinance protecting historic buildings." Acquired from the archived of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Size: Original 10 x 8 Print.
ST#: 1991.59.0411
WALTER M. GALE RESIDENCE (1893 - S.020) Date: 1969 Title: Walter M. Gale Residence, Oak Park (1893 - S.020)
Photographer: J. Mayo.
Description: Label on verso: "Date: June 17, 1969. Location: 1031 Chicago Avenue – Oak Park. Photographer: J. Mayo. Caption: Frank Lloyd Wright home in Oak Park." Stamped on verso: "June 23 1969". Clipping pasted to Verso: "Frank’s places. Has the weather given you spring fever in January? If it holds out for the weekend, take advantage of it. Soak up some architecture too. Sunday at 2, there’s a walking tour of 20 Frank Lloyd Wright homes in Oak Park. Meet at Unity Church, Lake and Kenilworth Avenues. Tour 2 ˝ hours. $2." Stamped on clipping: "Jan 19 1973". Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Tribune.
Size: Original 7.5 x 10 B&W Photograph.
S#: 1803.09.0112
Date: 1975 Title: Walter M. Gale Residence, Oak Park (1893 S.020) 1975.
Photographer: Harding Wieting
Description: Clipping pasted on verso: "Distinctive 1975 homes in Oak Park slated for restoration... Trib photo by Harding Wieting". Stamped on verso: "Apr 14, 1975. Chicago Tribune. Photo by Hardy Wieting".
Size: Original 8 x 10 B&W Photograph.
S#: 1996.09.0811
Date: 1989 Title: Walter M. Gale Dining Room (1893 S.020) 1989.
Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright house, 1031 Chicago Ave., Oak Park. Chicago Sun-Times. Photographed by Barry Jarvinen, 4-27-89." Caption pasted on verso dated 5-14: "Reproduction Mission-style light fixtures, a gold-touched wallpaper border and oak Arts and Crafts-style furnishings create a warm, comfortable setting in the dining room." Clipping pasted on verso dated 5-14: "Frank Lloyd Wright had designs on nearly every aspect of his clients’ lives. He started with architecture, but rarely stopped there. His commissions included schemes for furniture, art glass, fabrics, tabletop accessories and occasionally even a dress for the lady of the house. Now, for people who can’t live in a Wright design but would like to live with one, many of these designs are being reproduced. In an arrangement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, five manufacturers have been licensed to issue furniture, lighting, fabrics, wallcoverings, carpets, art glass and tabletop accessories based on Wright’s designs. The "Wright stuff" line includes art glass windows from Oakbrook Esser Studios in Oconomowoc, Wis.; furniture manufactured by Cassina of Milan, Italy, and distributed by Atelier International; rugs, wallcoverings and fabrics from Schumacher, as well as china, crystal and silver from Tiffany & Co. This fall a collection of Wright’s lighting designs will be issued by George Kovacs. All licensees were chosen for the high quality of their goods as well as their long term commitment to the program. Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News.
Size: Original 7.5 x 10 B&W print.
ST#: 1989.70.0210
ARTHUR HEURTLEY RESIDENCE (1902 - S.074) Date: 1959 Title: Arthur Heurtley Residence, Oak park (1902 - S.074) 1959
Description: Label on verso: "Chicago Sun-Times. Date: 12 Aug ‘59. Photographer: Gekler. Title: Wright Homes. Location: Oak Park. Caption: Home at 318 Forest Ave, Oak Park." Also stamped on verso: "Aug 1959". Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Sun Times.
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W Print
S#: 1377.40.0310
Date: 1978 Title: Arthur Heurtley Residence, Oak park (1902 - S.074) 1978.
Description: Caption on Face: "Oak Park, Ill.: The Heurtley House, a noble, self-assured mass of reddish brick built for a Chicago banker in 1902. (Second of Six). Wright/Goldberger. NYT Pictures / Yuichi Idaka" Published in the New York Times on August 27, 1978, accompanying a story about Wright by Paul Goldberger. Caption pasted to verso and stamped Aug 27 1978: "The Heurtley house (left) is a noble, self-assured mass of reddish brick built for a Chicago banker in 1902. Jack Prost (above) now lives in the house, which has a leaded glass skylight and an arched fireplace in the livingroom." Article pasted to verso (Excerpt): "Oak Park, Ill. - ...Just a couple of doors down Forest Avenue, (from Wright’s Home & Studio) is one of Wright’s best coherent wholes - the Heurtley House at No. 318, a noble, self-assured mass of reddish brick built for a Chicago banker in 1902. The Heurtley House is now owned by Jack Prost, a biology professor who purchased th house in 1973, three years after moving to Oak Park in the hope of setting in a Wright House. It is one of Wright’s finest prairie houses, as many of his early works were called. It gathers its many rooms under a vast, sprawling hipped roof, with rows of windows, in neat horizontal strips, tucked up near the top and a grand arched entrance." Photographed by Yuichi Idaka for the New York Times.
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph
ST#: 1978.34.0111
Date: 1978 Title: Arthur Heurtley Residence, Oak park (1902 - S.074) 1978.
Description: Caption on Face: "Oak Park, Ill.: Jack Prost now lives in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Heurtley House, with leaded glass skylight and arched fireplace in living room. (First of Six). Wright/Goldberger. NYT Pictures / Yuichi Idaka" Published in the New York Times on August 27, 1978, accompanying a story about Wright by Paul Goldberger. Caption pasted to verso and stamped Aug 27 1978: "The Heurtley house (left) is a noble, self-assured mass of reddish brick built for a Chicago banker in 1902. Jack Prost (above) now lives in the house, which has a leaded glass skylight and an arched fireplace in the livingroom." Article pasted to verso (Excerpt): "Oak Park, Ill. - ...Just a couple of doors down Forest Avenue, (from Wright’s Home & Studio) is one of Wright’s best coherent wholes - the Heurtley House at No. 318, a noble, self-assured mass of reddish brick built for a Chicago banker in 1902. The Heurtley House is now owned by Jack Prost, a biology professor who purchased the house in 1973, three years after moving to Oak Park in the hope of setting in a Wright House. It is one of Wright’s finest prairie houses, as many of his early works were called. It gathers its many rooms under a vast, sprawling hipped roof, with rows of windows, in neat horizontal strips, tucked up near the top and a grand arched entrance." Photographed by Yuichi Idaka for the New York Times.
Size: Original 8 x 10 B&W photograph
ST#: 1978.33.0111Date: Circa 1990 Publication: “Arthur Heurtley House - 1902, Oak Park, Illinois. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect" (Pub. By H. K. Barnett, Allison Park, PA 15101) (Published exclusively for the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation, 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois 60302)
Author: H. K. Barnett
Description: This house, with its compact form, continuous bans of casement windows, and living spaces on the second floor, is one of Wright’s early masterpieces. The banded brickwork, low hipped roof, and wide overhanging eaves all serve to emphasize the horizontal lines and tie the building to the breadth of the Illinois landscape. FLLW-14 #101195
Size: 5.8 x 4
ST#: 1990.59.0507
FRANK THOMAS RESIDENCE (1901 - S.067) Date: 1972 Title: Frank Wright Thomas Residence (1901 - S.067)
Description: In 1901, James Campbell Rogers hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design a house as a wedding present for his daughter, Susan Ann Rogers, and her husband, Frank Wright Thomas. The Thomas' were married on June 14, 1900. Label pasted on verso: "Date: May 31, 1972. Photographer: Yates. Caption: Frank Lloyd Wright designed home at 210 Forest up for sale for 100 grand." Clipping pasted to verso: "Stain-glass enclosed breezeway which leads to a long and narrow foyer can be yours for $100,000." Stamped on clipping: "June 8 1972". Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Tribune.
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph.
S#: 1909.35.0112
Date: Circa 1990 Title: “Frank Thomas House - 1901, Oak Park, Illinois. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect" (Pub. By H. K. Barnett, 915 Cedar Crest Ct. Wexford, PA 15090) (Published exclusively for the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation, 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois 60302)
Author: H. K. Barnett
Description: The first of Wright’s “Prairie houses” built in Oak Park, the Thomas house has its main living spaces raised a full story, a circuitous entry route, and exquisite art glass windows. FLLW-19 #20108249
Size: 5.8 x 4
ST#: 1990.60.0507
WILLIAM H. WINSLOW RESIDENCE & STABLE (1894 - S.024 & S.025)
The William H. Winslow Residence (1894 - S.024) was Frank Lloyd Wright's first independent commission after leaving Sullivan's office. Winslow was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and in 1883 at 26 became partner of the Hecla Iron Works. In 1885,when an opportunity arose, he moved to Chicago and with E. T. Harris, formed Harris and Winslow, manufacturing ornamental iron. Harris retired and with his brother Francis formed Winslow Bros. Ornamental Ironworks which he became president of, eventually opening offices in eight other major cities across the country.
Wright first met Winslow while working in Sullivan's office. "W.H. Winslow... had often been to Adler and Sullivan's to consult with me about the work of that office. W. H. now turned up to give me my first job... He had become my friend..."Winslow acquired the property on Auvergne Place from Edward C. Waller, who lived across the street and later became one of Wright's important clients (S.030, 031, 047, 065, 066, 166). Waller's son commissioned Wright to design Midway Gardens (1913 - S.180). Also in 1894 Wright designed four rowhouses for Robert W. Roloson (1894 - S.026), Waller's son-in-law.
In 1895 Wright design an office building for the American Luxfer Prism Company, one of the companies Winslow and Waller formed with three other partners. Winslow invented a process of joining glass pieces together. The project was never built, but in 1897 Wright, Robert C. Spencer, Waller and Winslow created designs related to Prism glass blocks. Wright (41), Winslow (11), Waller (2) filed patents. Continued...Date: 1959 Title: William H. Winslow House (1894).
Description: Photographed in 1894, printed in 1959. Chicago Architectural Photographing Company, Chicago. This is the actual print that was used for producing the image on page 117 in the June 1959 “Architectural Record”. Original gelatin silver photograph printed from the original negative. Printed in 1959 by Henry Fuermann and Sons. The original image was published in June 1900 "The Architectural Review" page 62. Also published in “In The Nature of Materials” 1942 Henry-Russell Hitchcock plate 27; “Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910" 1958 Grant Carpenter Manson page 66; “Frank Lloyd Wright: A study in Architectural Content” 1966 Norris Kelly Smith page 70; “Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier” 1994 Richard A. Etlin page 42; “Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect” 1994 Terence Riley page 115; "Frank Lloyd Wright and The Meaning of Materials", 1994 Patterson page 34; “The Decorative Designes of FLW”, 1979, Hanks, pp 12.
Size: 8 x 10
S#: 1275.07.0706
Date: 1969 Title: William H. Winslow House (1894 - S.024) Exterior 1969.
Description: Stamped on verso: "Hedrich-Blessing, Chicago" and "Daily News, Jun 21 1969". Cation pasted on verso: "The Winslow home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, will be open to the public for the first time tomorrow on a walking tour of the architect’s work in Oak Park and River Forest." Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Daily News.
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W print.
S#: 1803.08.0311
HARRISON P. YOUNG RESIDENCE (1895 - S.036) Date: 1959 Title:
Description: Harrison P. Young Residence Additions and Remodel, Oak park (1895 - S.036) 1959. Stamped on verso: "Sep 2, 1959". Clipping on verso: "This living room fireplace is original with the house. Built in 1894 and the famed architect designed the motto, the cushioned seat railing and even the andirons. (Stamped) Sep 11, 1959." Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Sun Times.
Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W Print.
S#: 1377.38.0310
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