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Threatened to be demolished in 1957, Wright returned to champion the Robie House as a “cornerstone in American Architecture.” The Robie House was preserved and continues to prove Wright’s keen regarding the direction of residential architecture in the U.S.
The Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S. National Historic Landmark now on the campus of the University of Chicago in the South Side community area of Hyde Park in Chicago, Illinois. Built between 1909 and 1910, the building was designed as a single family home by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. [4]
- 0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1909
- 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
May 16, 2010 · Designed and built between 1908-1910, the Robie House for client Frederick C. Robie and his family was one of Wright's earlier projects.
Experience and explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s visionary Robie House on this in-depth guided tour. Trained interpreters provide an immersive experience of Wright’s Prairie style masterpiece as you tour both the exterior and interior of the house.
Robie House, residence designed for Frederick C. Robie by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in Chicago. Completed in 1910, the structure is the culmination of Wright’s modern design innovations that came to be called the Prairie style. Read more about the house, its history, and how it defied tradition.
Completed in 1910, the house Wright designed for Frederick C. Robie is the consummate expression of his Prairie style. The house is conceived as an integral whole—site and structure, interior and exterior, furniture, ornament and architecture, each element is connected.
Prairie. See This Building on a Tour. Amid a collection of Victorian homes in Hyde Park, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, Robie House, stands out from the crowd. Trading height and lavish ornamentation for clean horizontal lines, it tightly hugs the ground.
