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Combine a guided tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio with an outdoor self-guided audio walking tour of the surrounding Historic District. See the famed homes that were designed in Wright's studio.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a historic house and design studio in Oak Park, Illinois, which was designed and owned by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. First built in 1889 and added to over the years, the home and studio is furnished with original Wright-designed furniture and textiles. [ 3 ]
The Home and Studio was the birthplace of Wright's vision for a new American architecture. Wright designed over 150 projects in his Oak Park Studio, establishing his legacy as a great and visionary architect.
The Oak Park Studio years proved an incredibly prolific period in Wright’s career, during which he pioneered the first uniquely American style—known as the Prairie School—and produced more than a third of his life’s work.
Home and Studio. The Museum Shop and restrooms are accessible. The Studio, including the drafting room, octagonal library, Wright’s office, the reception area and the exterior, is accessible to standard-size wheelchairs. The Trust has one standard-size wheelchair available for guests at the Home and Studio.
Wright’s Home and Studio is one of the 13 Wright-designed buildings in Illinois that make up the Illinois’ Frank Lloyd Wright Trail. Nearby Lodging Cambria Hotel Chicago Loop - Theatre District (8 miles from Oak Park)
The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust operates public tours, programs, and events at major Wright sites, three of which are historic houses: Wright’s Home and Studio (1889/1898) in Oak Park, the Frederick C. Robie House (1908-10) in Chicago’s Hyde Park, and the Emil Bach House (1915) in Chicago’s Rogers Park. The Trust’s other sites are public ...
This is where your Frank Lloyd Wright tour should begin. In a tree-lined neighborhood in Oak Park where nearly 30 buildings were designed by the famed architect, you will find the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio where he lived and worked.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio is an early expression of the ideas that ultimately became the Prairie School—and the place where some of the most famous buildings in that style were designed.
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio. Wright was a 22-year-old draftsman for Louis Sullivan when he began work on this family home. The exterior reflects the popular East Coast Shingle design but also shows an emphasis on pure geometric forms with a broad, sheltering roof and natural materials.
