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National Register of Historic Places
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The National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register, of the more than one million properties on the National Register,80,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts, each year approximately 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or by individual listings. For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service and its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States. While National Register listings are mostly symbolic, their recognition of significance provides some financial incentive to owners of listed properties, protection of the property is not guaranteed. During the nomination process, the property is evaluated in terms of the four criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, the application of those criteria has been the subject of criticism by academics of history and preservation, as well as the public and politicians. Occasionally, historic sites outside the proper, but associated with the United States are also listed. Properties can be nominated in a variety of forms, including individual properties, historic districts, the Register categorizes general listings into one of five types of properties, district, site, structure, building, or object. National Register Historic Districts are defined geographical areas consisting of contributing and non-contributing properties, some properties are added automatically to the National Register when they become administered by the National Park Service. These include National Historic Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Historical Parks, National Military Parks/Battlefields, National Memorials, on October 15,1966, the Historic Preservation Act created the National Register of Historic Places and the corresponding State Historic Preservation Offices. Initially, the National Register consisted of the National Historic Landmarks designated before the Registers creation, approval of the act, which was amended in 1980 and 1992, represented the first time the United States had a broad-based historic preservation policy. To administer the newly created National Register of Historic Places, the National Park Service of the U. S. Department of the Interior, hartzog, Jr. established an administrative division named the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. Hartzog charged OAHP with creating the National Register program mandated by the 1966 law, ernest Connally was the Offices first director. Within OAHP new divisions were created to deal with the National Register, the first official Keeper of the Register was William J. Murtagh, an architectural historian. During the Registers earliest years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, organization was lax and SHPOs were small, understaffed, and underfunded. A few years later in 1979, the NPS history programs affiliated with both the U. S. National Parks system and the National Register were categorized formally into two Assistant Directorates. Established were the Assistant Directorate for Archeology and Historic Preservation and the Assistant Directorate for Park Historic Preservation, from 1978 until 1981, the main agency for the National Register was the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service of the United States Department of the Interior. In February 1983, the two assistant directorates were merged to promote efficiency and recognize the interdependency of their programs, jerry L. Rogers was selected to direct this newly merged associate directorate
National Register of Historic Places
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Logo used for the NRHP.
National Register of Historic Places
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Old Slater Mill, a historic district in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was the first property listed in the National Register on November 13, 1966.
National Register of Historic Places
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The
Loren Andrus Octagon House in
Washington, Michigan has been on the NRHP since September 3, 1971.
National Register of Historic Places
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Built in 1800 by
Samuel McIntire in
Salem, the
Stephen Phillips House is operated as a
historic house museum by
Historic New England and open for public tours.
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National Historic Landmark
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A National Historic Landmark is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Of over 85,000 places listed on the countrys National Register of Historic Places, a National Historic Landmark District may include contributing properties that are buildings, structures, sites or objects, and it may include non-contributing properties. Contributing properties may or may not also be separately listed, prior to 1935, efforts to preserve cultural heritage of national importance were made by piecemeal efforts of the United States Congress. The first National Historic Site designation was made for the Salem Maritime National Historic Site on March 17,1938. In 1960, the National Park Service took on the administration of the data gathered under this legislation. Because listings often triggered local preservation laws, legislation in 1980 amended the procedures to require owner agreement to the designations. On October 9,1960,92 properties were announced as designated NHLs by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton, more than 2,500 NHLs have been designated. Most, but not all, are in the United States, there are NHLs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Three states account for nearly 25 percent of the nations NHLs, three cities within these states all separately have more NHLs than 40 of the 50 states. In fact, New York City alone has more NHLs than all but five states, Virginia, California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, there are 74 NHLs in the District of Columbia. Some NHLs are in U. S. commonwealths and territories, associated states, and foreign states. There are 15 in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other U. S. commonwealths and territories,5 in U. S. -associated states such as Micronesia, over 100 ships or shipwrecks have been designated as NHLs. About half of the National Historic Landmarks are privately owned, the National Historic Landmarks Program relies on suggestions for new designations from the National Park Service, which also assists in maintaining the landmarks. A friends group of owners and managers, the National Historic Landmark Stewards Association, works to preserve, protect, if not already listed on the National Register of Historic Places, an NHL is automatically added to the Register upon designation. About three percent of Register listings are NHLs, american Water Landmark List of U. S
National Historic Landmark
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USS Constitution
National Historic Landmark
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Frank Lloyd Wright 's
Taliesin is a National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark
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The
American Legation in Tangiers, Morocco, was the first National Historic Landmark on foreign soil.
National Historic Landmark
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Navajo Nation Council Chamber, the seat of government for the
Navajo Nation,
Window Rock, Arizona.
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Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin
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Shorewood Hills is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,565 at the 2010 census, a suburb entirely surrounded by the city of Madison and Lake Mendota, it is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. Shorewood Hills is located at 43°4′43″N 89°26′43″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.80 square miles, all of it land. Shorewood Hills is served by the Shorewood Hills Police Department, prior to 2014, the Shorewood Hills Fire Department provided fire and emergency medical services to the village. Starting in 2014, a contract with the city of Madison was established, as of the census of 2010, there were 1,565 people,620 households, and 478 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,956.3 inhabitants per square mile, there were 660 housing units at an average density of 825.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 91. 2% White,1. 0% African American,0. 1% Native American,5. 2% Asian,0. 1% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 8% of the population. 19. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 2.90. The median age in the village was 48.4 years. 25. 2% of residents were under the age of 18,3. 4% were between the ages of 18 and 24,16. 1% were from 25 to 44,35. 4% were from 45 to 64, and 19. 9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 48. 2% male and 51. 8% female, at the 2000 census, there were 1,732 people,640 households and 504 families residing in the village. The population density was 2,139.8 per square mile, there were 664 housing units at an average density of 820.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 91. 97% White,1. 44% African American,0. 12% Native American,2. 83% Asian,1. 62% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 18% of the population. 18. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 2.94. Age distribution was 26. 5% under the age of 18,3. 2% from 18 to 24,16. 7% from 25 to 44,36. 5% from 45 to 64, the median age was 47 years. For every 100 females there were 98.2 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.1 males. The median household income was $122,879, and the family income was $131,265. Males had an income of $93,506 versus $51,667 for females
Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin
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Frank Lloyd Wright's
First Unitarian Society Meeting House
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
Geographic coordinate system
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures,532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment and this philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater, which has been called the best all-time work of American architecture. Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home and his creative period spanned more than 70 years. In addition to his houses, Wright designed original and innovative offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, museums and he often designed interior elements for these buildings as well, including furniture and stained glass. Wright wrote 20 books and many articles and was a lecturer in the United States. His colorful personal life made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire. Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as the greatest American architect of all time, Frank Lloyd Wright was born Frank Lincoln Wright in the farming town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States, in 1867. His father, William Carey Wright, was an orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer, William Wright met and married Anna Lloyd Jones, a county school teacher, the previous year when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County. Originally from Massachusetts, William Wright had been a Baptist minister, Anna was a member of the large, prosperous and well-known Lloyd Jones family of Unitarians, who had emigrated from Wales to Spring Green, Wisconsin. One of Annas brothers was Jenkin Lloyd Jones, who would become an important figure in the spread of the Unitarian faith in the Western United States, both of Wrights parents were strong-willed individuals with idiosyncratic interests that they passed on to him. According to his biography, his mother declared when she was expecting that her first child would grow up to build beautiful buildings and she decorated his nursery with engravings of English cathedrals torn from a periodical to encourage the infants ambition. In 1870 the family moved to Weymouth, Massachusetts, where William ministered to a small congregation, in 1876, Anna visited the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia where she saw an exhibit of educational blocks created by Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel. The blocks, known as Froebel Gifts, were the foundation of his innovative kindergarten curriculum, Anna, a trained teacher, was excited by the program and bought a set with which young Wright spent much time playing. The blocks in the set were geometrically shaped and could be assembled in various combinations to form three-dimensional compositions, the Wright family struggled financially in Weymouth and returned to Spring Green, Wisconsin, where the supportive Lloyd Jones clan could help William find employment. They settled in Madison, where William taught music lessons and served as the secretary to the newly formed Unitarian society, although William was a distant parent, he shared his love of music, especially the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, with his children. Soon after Wright turned 14, his parents separated, Anna had been unhappy for some time with Williams inability to provide for his family and asked him to leave. The divorce was finalized in 1885 after William sued Anna for lack of physical affection, William left Wisconsin after the divorce and Wright claimed he never saw his father again. At this time he changed his name from Lincoln to Lloyd in honor of his mothers family
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Wright's home in
Oak Park, Illinois
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The
Walter Gale House (1893) is
Queen Anne in style yet features window bands and a cantilevered porch roof which hint at Wright's developing aesthetics
Frank Lloyd Wright
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William H. Winslow House (1893) in
River Forest, Illinois
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Unitarian Universalist
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Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion characterized by a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. The Unitarian Universalist Church does not have a creed, instead, UUs are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth. As such, UU congregations include many agnostics, theists, the roots of UU are in liberal Christianity, specifically Unitarianism and Universalism. Unitarian Universalists state that from these traditions come a deep regard for intellectual freedom, Congregations and members seek inspiration and derive insight from all major world religions. The Unitarian Universalist Association was formed in 1961, a consolidation of the American Unitarian Association, established in 1825, and it is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and serves churches mostly in the United States. A group of thirty Philippine congregations is represented as a member within the UUA. The Canadian Unitarian Council became an independent body in 2002, the UUA and CUC are, in turn, two of the seventeen members of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists. At the time of the North American consolidation, Unitarians and Universalists had expanded beyond their roots in liberal Christian theology, today they draw from a variety of religious traditions. Individuals may or may not self-identify as Christians or subscribe to Christian beliefs, Unitarian Universalist congregations and fellowships tend to retain some Christian traditions, such as Sunday worship with a sermon and the singing of hymns. New England Unitarians evolved from the Pilgrim fathers Congregational Christianity, which was based on a literal reading of the Bible. Liberalizing Unitarians rejected the Trinitarian belief in the godhead, Father, Son. Instead, they asserted a unitary notion of God, in addition, they rejected the doctrine of original sin, moving away from the Calvinism of the Congregationalists. New England Universalists rejected the Puritan forefathers emphasis on the few, the Elect. Instead Universalists asserted that all people will eventually be reconciled with God, Universalists rejected the hellfire and damnation of the evangelical preachers, who tried to revive the fundamentalist Christianity of the early Pilgrim fathers. This core doctrine asserts that through Christ every single human soul shall be saved, in 1793, Universalism emerged as a particular denomination of Christianity in the United States, eventually called the Universalist Church of America. Early American advocates of Universal Salvation such as Elhanan Winchester, Hosea Ballou and John Murray taught that all souls would achieve salvation, Christian Universalism denies the doctrine of everlasting damnation, and proclaims belief in an entirely loving God who will ultimately redeem all human beings. Historically, various forms of Nontrinitarianism have appeared within Christianity, Nontrinitarianism was especially prevalent during the theological turmoils of the Protestant Reformation. A Spanish physician, Michael Servetus, studied the Bible and concluded that the concept of the Trinity and his books On the Errors of the Trinity and Christianismi Restitutio caused much uproar
Unitarian Universalist
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A Unitarian Assembly in
Louisville, Kentucky.
Unitarian Universalist
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An early version of the
flaming chalice, the most widely used symbol of UUism.
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Church (building)
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A church building, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly worship services. The term in its sense is most often used by Christians to refer to their religious buildings. In traditional Christian architecture, the church is arranged in the shape of a Christian cross. When viewed from plan view the longest part of a cross is represented by the aisle, towers or domes are often added with the intention of directing the eye of the viewer towards the heavens and inspiring church visitors. The earliest identified Christian church was a church founded between 233 and 256. During the 11th through 14th centuries, a wave of building of cathedrals, a cathedral is a church, usually Roman Catholic, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox or Eastern Orthodox, housing the seat of a bishop. In standard Greek usage, the word ecclesia was retained to signify both a specific edifice of Christian worship, and the overall community of the faithful. This usage was retained in Latin and the languages derived from Latin, as well as in the Celtic languages. In the Germanic and some Slavic languages, the word kyriak-ós/-ē/-ón was adopted instead, in Old English the sequence of derivation started as cirice, then churche, and eventually church in its current pronunciation. German Kirche, Scottish kirk, Russian церковь, etc. are all similarly derived, according to the New Testament, the earliest Christians did not build church buildings. Instead, they gathered in homes or in Jewish worship places like the Second Temple or synagogues, the earliest archeologically identified Christian church is a house church, the Dura-Europos church, founded between 233 and 256. During the 11th through 14th centuries, a wave of building of cathedrals, in addition to being a place of worship, the cathedral or parish church was used by the community in other ways. It could serve as a place for guilds or a hall for banquets. Mystery plays were performed in cathedrals, and cathedrals might also be used for fairs. The church could be used as a place to thresh and store grain, a common architecture for churches is the shape of a cross. These churches also often have a dome or other large vaulted space in the interior to represent or draw attention to the heavens. Other common shapes for churches include a circle, to represent eternity, or an octagon or similar star shape, another common feature is the spire, a tall tower on the west end of the church or over the crossing. The Latin word basilica was used to describe a Roman public building
Church (building)
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La Madeleine, a
Neoclassical,
Catholic church in
Paris, France.
Church (building)
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The
Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in
Aleppo, Syria is considered to be one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the world.
Church (building)
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Evangelical (
Lutheran) church in
Štrba (
Slovakia) - a typical village church in
Europe.
Church (building)
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The
Frauenkirche in
Munich is a largely
Gothic, medieval church.
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Architecture
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Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings and other physical structures. Architectural works, in the form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements, Architecture can mean, A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures. The art and science of designing buildings and nonbuilding structures, the style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures. A unifying or coherent form or structure Knowledge of art, science, technology, the design activity of the architect, from the macro-level to the micro-level. The practice of the architect, where architecture means offering or rendering services in connection with the design and construction of buildings. The earliest surviving work on the subject of architecture is De architectura. According to Vitruvius, a building should satisfy the three principles of firmitas, utilitas, venustas, commonly known by the original translation – firmness, commodity. An equivalent in modern English would be, Durability – a building should stand up robustly, utility – it should be suitable for the purposes for which it is used. Beauty – it should be aesthetically pleasing, according to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as well as possible. Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise, De Re Aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, for Alberti, the rules of proportion were those that governed the idealised human figure, the Golden mean. The most important aspect of beauty was, therefore, an inherent part of an object, rather than something applied superficially, Gothic architecture, Pugin believed, was the only true Christian form of architecture. The 19th-century English art critic, John Ruskin, in his Seven Lamps of Architecture, Architecture was the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by men. That the sight of them contributes to his health, power. For Ruskin, the aesthetic was of overriding significance and his work goes on to state that a building is not truly a work of architecture unless it is in some way adorned. For Ruskin, a well-constructed, well-proportioned, functional building needed string courses or rustication, but suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say, This is beautiful, le Corbusiers contemporary Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. The notable 19th-century architect of skyscrapers, Louis Sullivan, promoted an overriding precept to architectural design, function came to be seen as encompassing all criteria of the use, perception and enjoyment of a building, not only practical but also aesthetic, psychological and cultural
Architecture
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Brunelleschi, in the building of the dome of
Florence Cathedral in the early 15th-century, not only transformed the building and the city, but also the role and status of the architect.
Architecture
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Section of
Brunelleschi 's dome drawn by the architect
Cigoli (c. 1600)
Architecture
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The
Parthenon,
Athens,
Greece, "the supreme example among architectural sites."
(Fletcher).
Architecture
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The
Houses of Parliament, Westminster, master-planned by
Charles Barry, with interiors and details by A.W.N. Pugin
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American Institute of Architects
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The American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. The AIA also works with members of the design and construction team to help coordinate the building industry. The AIA is currently headed by Robert Ivy, FAIA as EVP/Chief Executive Officer and Thomas V. Vonier, wells, with Richard Upjohn serving as the first president. They met on February 23,1857 and decided to invite 16 other prominent architects to join them, including Alexander Jackson Davis, Thomas U. Prior to their establishment of the AIA, anyone could claim to be an architect and they drafted a constitution and bylaws by March 10,1857, under the name New York Society of Architects. Walter, of Philadelphia, later suggested the name be changed to American Institute of Architects, the members signed the new constitution on April 15,1857, having filed a certificate of incorporation two days earlier. As of 2008, AIA has more than 300 chapters, the AIA is headquartered at 1735 New York Avenue, NW in Washington, D. C. A design competition was held in the mid-1960s to select an architect for a new AIA headquarters in Washington, mitchell/Giurgola won the design competition but failed to get approval of the design concept from the United States Commission of Fine Arts. The firm resigned the commission and helped select The Architects Collaborative to redesign the building, the design, led by TAC principals Norman Fletcher and Howard Elkus, was ultimately approved in 1970 and completed in 1973. More than 90,000 licensed architects and associated professionals are members, AIA members adhere to a code of ethics and professional conduct intended to assure clients, the public, and colleagues of an architects dedication to the highest standards in professional practice. There are five levels of membership in the AIA, Architect members are licensed to practice architecture in the United States, international associate members hold an architecture license or the equivalent from a licensing authority outside the United States. Emeritus members have been AIA members for 15 successive years and are at least 65 years of age or are incapacitated, allied membership is a partnership with the AIA and the American Architectural Foundation. The AIA’s most prestigious honor is the designation of a member as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and this membership is awarded to members who have made contributions of national significance to the profession. Slightly more than 2,600, or 2% of all members, have elevated to the AIA College of Fellows. Foreign architects of prominence may be elected to the College as Honorary Fellows of the AIA, the AIA is governed by a Board of Directors and has a staff of over 200 full-time employees. Although the AIA functions as an organization, at its heart are some 300 local. The components are spread throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Japan, by speaking with a united voice, AIA architects influence government practices that affect the practice of the profession and the quality of American life. The AIA monitors legislative and regulatory actions and uses the power of its membership to participate in decisionmaking by federal, state
American Institute of Architects
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The Octagon House
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National Park Service
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It was created on August 25,1916, by Congress through the National Park Service Organic Act and is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. As of 2014, the NPS employs 21,651 employees who oversee 417 units, the National Park Service celebrated its centennial in 2016. National parks and national monuments in the United States were originally individually managed under the auspices of the Department of the Interior, the movement for an independent agency to oversee these federal lands was spearheaded by business magnate and conservationist Stephen Mather, as well as J. Horace McFarland. With the help of journalist Robert Sterling Yard, Mather ran a publicity campaign for the Department of the Interior and they wrote numerous articles that praised the scenic and historic qualities of the parks and their possibilities for educational, inspirational, and recreational benefits. This campaign resulted in the creation of a National Park Service, Mather became the first director of the newly formed NPS. On March 3,1933, President Herbert Hoover signed the Reorganization Act of 1933, the act would allow the President to reorganize the executive branch of the United States government. It wasnt until later that summer when the new President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Roosevelt agreed and issued two Executive orders to make it happen. In 1951, Conrad Wirth became director of the National Park Service, the demand for parks after the end of the World War II had left the parks overburdened with demands that could not be met. In 1952, with the support of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he began Mission 66, New parks were added to preserve unique resources and existing park facilities were upgraded and expanded. In 1966, as the Park Service turned 50 years old, emphasis began to turn from just saving great and wonderful scenery, Director George Hartzog began the process with the creation of the National Lakeshores and then National Recreation Areas. Since its inception in 1916, the National Park Service has managed each of the United States national parks, Yellowstone National Park was the first national park in the United States. In 1872, there was no government to manage it. Yosemite National Park began as a park, the land for the park was donated by the federal government to the state of California in 1864 for perpetual conservation. Yosemite was later returned to federal ownership, at first, each national park was managed independently, with varying degrees of success. In Yellowstone, the staff was replaced by the U. S. Army in 1886. Due to the irregularities in managing these national treasures, Stephen Mather petitioned the government to improve the situation. In response, Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane challenged him to lobby for creating a new agency, Mather was successful with the ratification of the National Park Service Organic Act in 1916. Later, the agency was given authority over other protected areas, the National Park System includes all properties managed by the National Park Service
National Park Service
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In 1916, a portfolio of nine major parks was published to generate interest. Printed on each brochure was a map showing the parks and principal railroad connections.
National Park Service
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National Park Service Arrowhead
National Park Service
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In 1934, a series of ten postage stamps were issued to commemorate the reorganization and expansion of the National Park Service.
National Park Service
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Grand Canyon National Park, south rim of canyon.
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Contributing property
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Government agencies, at the state, national, and local level in the United States, have differing definitions of what constitutes a contributing property but there are common characteristics. Local laws often regulate the changes that can be made to contributing structures within designated historic districts, the first local ordinances dealing with the alteration of buildings within historic districts was in Charleston, South Carolina in 1931. Properties within a district fall into one of two types of property, contributing and non-contributing. A contributing property, such as a 19th Century mansion, helps make a historic district historic, while a non-contributing property, such as a medical clinic. The contributing properties are key to a districts historic associations, historic architectural qualities. A property can change from contributing to non-contributing and vice versa if significant alterations take place, the ordinance declared that buildings in the district could not have changes made to their architectural features visible from the street. By the mid-1930s, other U. S. cities followed Charlestons lead, an amendment to the Louisiana Constitution led to the 1937 creation of the Vieux Carre Commission, which was charged with protecting and preserving the French Quarter in the city of New Orleans. The city then passed an ordinance that set standards regulating changes within the quarter. Other sources, such as the Columbia Law Review in 1963, the Columbia Law Review gave dates of 1925 for the New Orleans laws and 1924 for Charleston. The same publication claimed that two cities were the only cities with historic district zoning until Alexandria, Virginia adopted an ordinance in 1946. The National Park Service appears to refute this, in 1939, the city of San Antonio, Texas, enacted an ordinance that protected the area of La Villita, which was the citys original Mexican village marketplace. In 1941 the authority of local controls on buildings within historic districts was being challenged in court. In City of New Orleans vs Pergament Louisiana state appellate courts ruled that the design, beginning in the mid-1950s, controls that once applied to only historic districts were extended to individual landmark structures. The United States Congress adopted legislation that declared the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, by 1965,51 American communities had adopted preservation ordinances. By 1998, more than 2,300 U. S. towns, contributing properties are defined through historic district or historic preservation zoning laws, usually at the local level. Zoning ordinances pertaining to historic districts are designed to maintain a historic character by controlling demolition and alteration to existing properties. It can be any property, structure or object that adds to the integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district, either local or federal. Definitions vary but, in general, they maintain the same characteristics, another key aspect of a contributing property is historic integrity
Contributing property
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Thomas T. Gaff House, a contributing property to the
Dupont Circle Historic District in
Washington, D.C.
Contributing property
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Plaque acknowledging Little Red Schoolhouse as a contributing property to
Newberry Historic District in Newberry, Florida
Contributing property
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This medical clinic building in the
East Grove Street Historic District in
Bloomington, Illinois is an example of a non-contributing property.
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Historic districts in the United States
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Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided into two categories, contributing and non-contributing. Districts greatly vary in size, some have hundreds of structures, the U. S. federal government designates historic districts through the United States Department of Interior under the auspices of the National Park Service. Federally designated historic districts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, state-level historic districts may follow similar criteria or may require adherence to certain historic rehabilitation standards. Local historic district designation offers, by far, the most legal protection for historic properties because most land use decisions are made at the local level, local districts are generally administered by the county or municipal government. The first U. S. historic district was established in Charleston, South Carolina in 1931, Charleston city government designated an Old and Historic District by local ordinance and created a board of architectural review to oversee it. New Orleans followed in 1937, establishing the Vieux Carré Commission, other localities picked up on the concept, with the city of Philadelphia enacting its historic preservation ordinance in 1955. The Supreme Court case validated the protection of resources as an entirely permissible governmental goal. In 1966 the federal government created the National Register of Historic Places, conference of Mayors had stated Americans suffered from rootlessness. By the 1980s there were thousands of federally designated historic districts, Historic districts are generally two types of properties, contributing and non-contributing. In general, contributing properties are integral parts of the historic context, in addition to the two types of classification within historic districts, properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places are classified into five broad categories. They are, building, structure, site, district and object, all but the eponymous district category are also applied to historic districts listed on the National Register. A listing on the National Register of Historic Places is governmental acknowledgment of a historic district, however, the Register is an honorary status with some federal financial incentives. The National Register of Historic Places defines a historic district per U. S. federal law, a district may also comprise individual elements separated geographically but linked by association or history. Districts established under U. S. federal guidelines generally begin the process of designation through a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, the National Register is the official recognition by the U. S. government of cultural resources worthy of preservation. While designation through the National Register does offer a district or property some protections, if the federal government is not involved, then the listing on the National Register provides the site, property or district no protections. If, however, company A was under federal contract the Smith House would be protected, a federal designation is little more than recognition by the government that the resource is worthy of preservation. Usually, the National Register does not list religious structures, moved structures, reconstructed structures, however, if a property falls into one of those categories and are integral parts of districts that do meet the criteria then an exception allowing their listing will be made. Historic district listings, like all National Register nominations, can be rejected on the basis of owner disapproval, in the case of historic districts, a majority of owners must object in order to nullify a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places
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The federally designated
Sycamore Historic District in
Illinois
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Walker Hall, part of the
University of Florida Campus Historic District
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Helvenston House, part of the
Ocala Historic District, in
Ocala, Florida
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1848 Duncan House,
National Register of Historic Places Cooksville Historic District, Wisconsin
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American Legation, Tangier
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The Tangier American Legation is a building in the medina of Tangier, Morocco. The first American public property outside the United States, it commemorates the historic cultural and it is now officially called the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, and is a cultural center, museum, and a research library, concentrating on Arabic language studies. The legation was listed on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places on January 8,1981, U. S. Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt subsequently designated it a National Historic Landmark on December 17,1982. It was the first such listing or designation in a foreign country, the legation is an elaborate Moorish-style building of stuccoed masonry. This complex structure contains the mud and stone building presented to the United States in 1821 by Sultan Moulay Suliman. It is symbolic of the 1786 Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship, which is still in force today, the complex expanded over the years as the surrounding houses were bought up. During World War II it served as headquarters for United States intelligence agents, after the move to Rabat as the diplomatic capital in 1956, when the country gained its independence, the Legation was abandoned as a diplomatic building. Over the years the United States government proceeded to use it as offices and Peace Corps offices. In time it became neglected and threatened with demolition, in 1976 a group of American citizens established a public, non-profit organization to save the Old American Legation. Today the Tangier American Legation Museum Society rents the structure, which is owned by the United States government. TALIMs historic building now includes a wing devoted to the expatriate writer and composer Paul Bowles. The museum also has a library and conference room. TALIMs community outreach programs include Arabic literacy courses for women living in the Tangier medina, john Davison is the current museum director
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Mary W. Adams House
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The 1905 Mary W. Adams House, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Prairie School home that was constructed in Highland Park, Illinois. The Adams House is a stucco-surfaced wood-frame house, built for Wrights oldest client, widowed Mary W. Adams, who was a teacher in the Christian Science movement, hired architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design her a house in 1905. Adams was 70 years old, making her Wrights oldest client, disciples of the Christian Science movement wanted to be seen as innovative, therefore Mrs. Adams chose an innovative architect, 38-year-old Wright. Wright submitted a plan which had porches at the extremities. Adams approved of a draft, which removed the south porch and made the dining room an open view. An interesting feature of the building is its diagnol corner buttresses which are not structural, the exterior is stucco with cypress wood trim and the interior wood is southern yellow pine with quarter-sawn white oak floors. The original tan Roman brick fireplace has been restored, Wright designed a small storage building for the house which has also been restored. The house had rooms for a maid and servant and it was designed with a call system so that Adams could request help from anywhere in the house, even the porch. The building sits on a lot, four houses from Lake Michigan. It is reminiscent of what would become Wrights A Fireproof House for $5000 design, Adams lived in the house for only three years before her death and is buried with her husband in Lowell, Massachusetts. The house was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places on September 29,1982 as part of the Highland Park Multiple Resource Area, the house was listed as a short sale in the 2000s and its fate was uncertain. New owners purchased the home in December 2010 and embarked upon an 18-month restoration using the plans of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Highland Park Historic Preservation Commission named it a landmark in 2011. Also in 2011, it was nicknamed the Olson Supreme Overlord of America Monument, the current owners received the Highland Park 2012 Historic Preservation Award for Restoration
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Albert and Edith Adelman House
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The Albert and Edith Adelman House is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home in Fox Point, Wisconsin. Albert Ollie Adelman was just 32 years old and had three sons when he asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design an affordable home in 1948. Albert was the son of Benjamin Adelman, founder of a laundry and dry cleaning business in the Milwaukee area. Wright designed a number of projects for the Adelman family, including a laundry plant, of these, only this house and the Benjamin Adelman Residence in Phoenix, were actually built. Although the house’s long, low profile recalls Wright’s turn-of-the-century Prairie school homes and it is built of buff-colored concrete block and cypress, neither of which requires paint or plaster. The roof is covered with hand split cedar shakes and has wide overhangs, Wright also designed many of the interior furnishings. The 170-foot long home has five bedrooms on one end, a kitchen and dining room at the end. A covered walkway leads from the end of the house to the garage and this house is built on a long,2. 5-acre lot and set back well from the road at the end of a long, winding drive. The lot has a deep, wooded ravine at one end, the house sits at the rear of the lot, overlooking the ravine, and faces south/southeast to take maximum advantage of natural light
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Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House
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The Gregor S. and Elizabeth B. Affleck House, also known as the Affleck house, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in Metro Detroit
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Carroll Alsop House
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Carroll Alsop House, also known as Mitchell House, is a historic residence located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. It is one of seven Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian houses located in Iowa and this house is an L-plan, unless you count the carport, which makes it a T-plan. It was a house that embodied the ideals of free and simple living, in touch with nature. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, university Of Chicago Press,2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 Frank Lloyd Wrights Carroll Alsop House in Oskaloosa, Iowa Alsop house on dgunning. org
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E. Clarke and Julia Arnold House
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The E. Clarke and Julia Arnold House is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home in Columbus, Wisconsin, United States. The Arnold house occupies a site on the west edge of the city of Columbus. It was built in 1955-1956 for E. Clarke Arnold, a successful Columbus attorney, his wife, Julia and this low one-story home is built of Wisconsin limestone, redwood board and batten, and glass. It is one of Wrights diamond module homes, a form he used in the Patrick Kinney House, the Richard Smith House, in this design, all the angles are either 60°or 120°, forming equilateral parallelogram modules having 4-foot-long sides. This home featured a twist on the usual Usonian color scheme with Golden ocher floors instead of the signature Cherokee Red, within three years of completion, the arrival of twins necessitated the construction of a second bedroom wing. Wright approved this wing in 1959 and the plans were in preparation when he died in April of that year, Wright apprentice and Taliesin Fellow John H. Howe drafted a second, partly revised design, which established the final Y-shaped plan of the house
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Emil Bach House
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The Emil Bach House is a Prairie style house in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States that was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was built in 1915 for an admirer of Wrights work, Bach was co-owner of the Bach Brick Company. The house is representative of Wrights late Prairie style and is an expression of his creativity from a period just before his work shifted stylistic focus. The Bach House was declared a Chicago Landmark on September 28,1977, on December 5,1914, Emil Bach and his wife Anna purchased the site of the Bach House from Amelia Ludwick and her husband. In 1915 Bach commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the house, Joseph Peacock purchased the house from the Bachs in 1934 and owned it until 1947. The property changed hands twice in 1951, the sale was in December to Manuel Weiss who held the property until 1959. That year he sold the house to Joseph Blinder, in 2003, Toulabi put the home up for sale with a price of US$2.5 million, it was later listed at $1.9 million. The house lingered on the market for months before it was put up for auction with a starting bid of $750,000. The Rogers Park neighborhood changed from a quiet lake front, country area to a busy street. Preservationists expressed concern surrounding the auction and the question of the destiny for the expansive 45 ft by 150 ft side yard. The yard is zoned RT-4 which, among other residential uses, when the home finally sold at auction, well above the opening bid of $750,000, the new owners revealed that they intended to live in the house and preserve the yard. In 2009, according to Crains Chicago, James Pritzker paid $1.7 million to acquire the house, the seller, Jane Elizabeth Feerer, bought the famous architect’s Prairie-style home at a 2005 auction for $1.17 million. She financed the acquisition with a loan for just under that amount from a trust controlled by Mr. Pritzker, president, following an extensive restoration, the house was re-opened to the public in 2014. The Bach House is one of the homes Wright designed after his 1911 return from Europe still extant in the city of Chicago, the home is part of a series of geometric, cubic homes with overhanging, flat roofs designed by Wright in the early 20th century. These details were first published by Wright in a 1907 Ladies Home Journal article, the first was the Laura Gale House in Oak Park, Illinois, followed by the Oscar Balch House, also in Oak Park, Coonley Kindergarten, the Bogh House and then the Bach House. Of the houses of type in Chicago, with cubic masses and a slab roof. The 2,700 ft² house was designed as a single family residence with a basement. When the house was constructed it was a home with a clear view of Lake Michigan from its rear facade
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Theodore Baird Residence
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The Theodore Baird Residence, also known as Baird House, is a suburban house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and located at 38 Shays Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the only Wright design in Massachusetts, the Usonian house was planned and built in 1940 for Amherst College English professor Theodore Baird. The Bairds became interested in Wrights work after reading his autobiography, Wright produced drawings based on the Bairds description of their lifestyle and a description of the lot. They were unable to locate contractors in the area who were able to do the work, part of the construction work was done at a factory in New Jersey, and moved to Amherst for final assembly. The house was the only Usonian for which the materials were prefabricated before being brought to the site and it is a single-family house with brick, cypress wood and glass façades and a flat roof highly cantilevered over a carport. Heating is conveyed by pipes distributing hot water through the concrete floor, there are also three fireplaces, one in the master bedroom and another with a single chimney and two grates which is divided by a partition wall separating the living room and study. The building includes an apartment for Bairds mother, which is located at the opposite end of the house from the Bairds quarters. Wrights design also included a space for the Bairds dog, including a dog run. The house is set back about 250 feet from the road, the property, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, also includes a 4-acre woodlot that extends behind the house and neighboring properties on Shays Road. National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts Photo Photo
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Frank J. Baker House
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The Frank J. Baker House is a Prairie School style house located at 507 Lake Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois. The house, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was built in 1909, the two-story house has a T-shaped floor plan and is similar in design to Wrights Isabel Roberts House. The houses two-story living room features a fireplace, a sloped ceiling. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 8,1974, media related to Frank J. Baker House at Wikimedia Commons Frank J. Baker House by Frank Lloyd Wright at Citywide Services
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Oscar B. Balch House
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Balch House is a home located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The Prairie style Balch House was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1911, the home was the first house Wright designed after returning from a trip to Europe with a clients wife. The subsequent social exile cost the architect friends, clients, the house is one of the first Wright houses to employ a flat roof which gives the home a horizontal linearity. Historian Thomas OGorman noted that the home may provide a glimpse into the mind of Wright. The Balch house is listed as a property to a U. S. federally Registered Historic District. The Oscar Balch House was one of the first homes designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright upon his return from a trip to Europe. Wright had traveled to Europe with Mamah Borthwick, a clients wife and this flaunting of public morality lost him friends, clients and his family. Amongst those who by contrast stood by Wright was the interior decorator Oscar Balch, Balch was one of two partners in the decorating firm Pebbles & Balch. Wright had previously designed a building remodel for Balchs storefront on Lake Street in Oak Park, in 1907, the Balch House is one of Wrights first flat-roofed houses and its proportions are taller compared with later flat-roofed homes he designed. Wright brought new drama to his Prairie style with the addition of the flat roof, the expansive roof further refined the simplicity of Wrights Prairie style house. The house has broad, overhanging eaves, common to Prairie houses, the exterior is sheathed in stucco which provides a sculpting effect on the exterior. The original color of the stucco on the exterior is unknown, the design of the house is symbolic in its heightened terrace walls, the security walls and its hidden and obscured entryway. The house clearly shows the signs of someone who feels trapped or under siege, the events of Wrights personal life may be reflected in the design of the Balch House. Regardless, the house has a remarkable linear proportion and Wright managed to raise the eyeline with the rows of windows on the second floor. The home is part of a series of geometric, cubic homes with overhanging, the first was the Laura Gale House in Oak Park, Illinois, followed by the Oscar B. Balch House, also in Oak Park, Coonley Kindergarten, the Bogh House, the first floor plan is similar to the Edwin H. Cheney House, both have a three part first floor layout that includes a library, a dining room and a living room. The interior spaces are separated by low decks set at the window heads, in the living room the house is anchored by a Roman brick fireplace at its center and there are libraries on either side of two small setback pavilions. These features help the buildings interior flow and symmetry, copious use of glass brings natural light into the interior
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Hiram Baldwin House
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The Hiram Baldwin House, also known as the Baldwin-Wackerle Residence, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Prairie school home located at 205 Essex Road in Kenilworth, Illinois. Built in 1905, the house was part of Wrights primary period of development of the Prairie School, the house has a centrifugal floor plan with a north-south axis and wings containing the living room and stair tower. The exterior is stucco with wood stripping, and the roof is low-pitched, the living room uses its fireplace as a focal point and has curved walls with casement windows. The houses garden space is divided by wooden screens to form courtyards, the house is Wrights only residential work in Kenilworth. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 28,1983, university Of Chicago Press,2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 Photos on Flickr Baldwin house on delmars. com Photo of Baldwin house on prairiestyles. com Baldwin house on peterbeers. net
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George Barton House
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Barton House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built between 1903 &1904, and is located at 118 Summit Avenue in Buffalo, New York. The Barton House is part of the larger Darwin D. Martin House Complex, the complex was commissioned by Darwin D. Martin an entrepreneur who worked at the Larkin Soap Company. The site was purchased by Martin in 1902 as a location where he planned to build two houses, one for himself, and one for his sister, Delta Martin Barton, and her husband, George F. Barton. Of the Martin Complexs six buildings construction on the Barton House began first and not only was it the first building of the complex to be completed, the Barton House is on the north east corner of the complex. The basic floor plan is cruciform, with the living spaces concentrated in the center two-story portion of the house where the reception. The two main bedrooms are on the story, at either end of a narrow hall. The kitchen is at the end, behind the main stairway. DeRhodes House in South Bend, Indiana, is a image of the Barton House. The F. B. Henderson House in Elmhurst, Illinois is also similar in plan, the Martin House Restoration Corporation operates guided public tours and presents educational programs for both volunteers and the general public. Darwin D. Martin House Complex Official website Historic American Buildings Survey No. NY-5611, Darwin D. Martin House,125 Jewett Parkway, Buffalo, Erie County, NY,15 photos,27 measured drawings,14 data pages Graycliff Official Site, member of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
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Peter A. Beachy House
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The Peter A. Beachy House is a home in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois that was entirely remodeled by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1906. The house that today is almost entirely different from the sites original home. The home is listed as a property to the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District. The original home, a Gothic cottage, was almost entirely replaced when banker Peter A. Beachy commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to remodel the home. The house is set at angles to the street to utilize part of the cottages original foundation. Wright built this house after returning from a trip to Japan, though the Beachy House incorporates an earlier structure, the original building is completely obliterated on the interior. The only points that the house, known as the Fargo House. The house has seven gables and sits on the largest residential lot in Oak Park, much of the furniture in the house was also Wright designed but the windows contained only wooden muntins, no leaded or colored glass. However, Wright designed leaded-glass light fixtures which are used throughout the house, the Peter A. Beachy House is an example of Wrights prairie design work. It is listed as a property to the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District. The historic district joined the U. S. National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the Peter A. Beachy House is one of three homes in Oak Park that Wright was commissioned to remodel. The other two are the 1906 Hills-DeCaro House, which was under renovation when the Hills House was built, and the William H. Copeland House, also on Forest Avenue
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Gustav Becker House
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The Gustav Becker House is located at 2408 Van Buren Avenue, in Ogden, Utah, United States. It was built around 1915 based on Frank Lloyd Wrights A Fireproof House for $5,000 published in Ladies Home Journal in April 1907 and it was designed in detail by Salt Lake architects Ware & Treganza. Photo Collection at Prairie School Traveler Roberts, Allen D. Powell, national Register of Historic Places Nomination, Gustav L. Becker House. National Register of Historic Places Inventory
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Quintin Blair House
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The Quintin Blair House in Cody, Wyoming was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1952-53. The house is an example of Wrights natural house theme, emphasizing close integration of house and it is the only Wright building in Wyoming. Ruth Taggart Blair was a student at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts during the 1930s and her professor, Bruce Goff, took the class to visit Taliesin at Spring Green, Wisconsin, where they met Wright. In 1951 Ruth and Quintin Blair were visiting Arizona, when Ruth suggested that they visit Taliesin West in Arizona and they were met by Wright in the driveway, introduced themselves, and were invited to stay for lunch. At the luncheon, Wright expressed a desire to design a house for them, at Wrights suggestion, the Blairs bought some land away from town, as Wright did not want to design for a city lot. The house was completed in 1953, the house is laid out on a 4-foot by 4-foot grid. The house is dominated by a low, nearly flat roof that flares dramatically over the living room, the windows have mitered corners, eliminating a support and giving the impression that the glass itself incorporates a right-angle bend. A small triangular bay projects from the wall as a piano niche. Exterior wall materials are locally quarried ashlar sandstone. The site is a 40-acre parcel near a creek about 15 feet below the house. Springs near the house have been dammed by a wall aligned with the piano bays angled wall, the house has been modified and somewhat enlarged, with consultation from Taliesin. The Blair House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, photographs of the Quintin Blair House at the National Park Services NRHP database Quintin Blair House at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
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Frederick C. Bogk House
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Bogk House is Frank Lloyd Wrights only single-family residential project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bogk was an alderman and secretary-treasurer of the Ricketson Paint Works and this house embodies Wrights prairie style elements into a solid-looking structure that appears impregnable. In the mid-1910s, developer Arthur Richards was promoting Wright and he had designed several projects for associates of Richards, but only two were built - the Munkwitz Apartments, and this residence for Frederick C. By this time, Wrights popularity was in decline, mostly due to personal troubles, the house was built in 1917 at a cost of $15,000. The current owners, Robert and Barbara Elsner, purchased the home in 1955, the sophisticated balance of horizontal and vertical lines further reflects the strong Japanese influence. The understated entrance is located at the side of the house, the first-floor interior is a fluid succession of rooms sprawling under a low-lying ceiling. The living room extends across the front of the house, with a room at the right rear of the living room. A bedroom above the garage at the rear was for the maid. There are four bedrooms and a room upstairs. Tall, narrow leaded glass windows both frame the windows, and appear by themselves as design elements. Similar glass panes are embedded in interior brick walls, with lights behind, there is a tiled goldfish pond against one wall of the living room, and a plaque above it with and image of cranes. Built-in light fixtures and other elements are common. There is some built-in furniture, such as desks and bookshelves, the other furniture is not original to the house, but is Wrights design. The current carpeting is a reproduction of Wrights original design, university Of Chicago Press,2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 WRIGHT AND LIKE, MILWAUKEE TOUR Architecture Travel, Unpronounceable, Unforgettable Bogk Frederick C. Bogk House at the archINFORM database, UWM Libraries Digital Collections, Item Viewer Wright in Wisconsin Photos on Arcaid Bogk House on LoC
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Narrow, leaded art glass can be seen alongside the windows, as well as planters beneath the second-story windows.
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Edward E. Boynton House
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The Edward E. Boynton House was built in Rochester, New York in 1908. This two-story house is built in the elongated T plan, Frank Lloyd Wright won agreement from Boynton to not only design the house but also design the landscape and furnishings as well. Its the furthest east of Wrights Prairie houses, Edward Boynton was a successful lantern salesman and partner in the C. T. Boynton learned of Frank Lloyd Wright through a partner, Warren McArthur. Wright had built the Warren McArthur House in the Kenwood District of Chicago in 1892, in 1907, Wright came to Rochester to help Edward and his daughter Beulah select a site for their home. Boynton bought four city lots on East Blvd, the plans also called for 28 American elm trees on the property. Boyntons daughter helped him work with Wright on the design of the house as his wife had died years earlier, Wright and Beulah Boynton established a great architect-client relationship - not always the case for Wright with his clients. Wright incorporated many of her suggestions into the structure and design, Wright would frequently and unexpectedly show up at the site during construction and once there, never leave the house for 2 to 3 days - often sleeping in makeshift sheds set up by the workmen. The home is oriented sideways on the lot, the living room is extended west by a veranda which aims towards the street. The dining room is large and includes rows of leaded art glass windows on each floor, with separate designs for casements and clerestory windows. The veranda was enclosed and the same art glass added to it. The cost of the house and site was $55,000.00, the Boyntons lived in the house until 1918. I thought it was sited on a hilltop surrounded by an expanse of space. This home is still a private residence, the elms are gone, a casualty of Dutch elm disease in the 1960s. As a result of weather conditions in Rochester and problems with the original design, its upkeep has been a continual problem. An extensive restoration project was completed in 2012, the two and a half year restoration project was undertaken by the present owners of the house, Francis J. Cosentino and his wife Jane E. Parker, who purchased the house in 2009 for $830,000. The progress of the work was documented in a Rochester. Public Broadcasting Station channel WXXI program entitled, Frank Lloyd Wrights Boynton House, the Rochester, N. Y. based architecture firm, Bero Architecture PLLC, was the lead firm in the restoration of the house
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Dining Room, bay windows, winter 1968
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B. Harley Bradley House
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Harley Bradley House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home, constructed in the Prairie School style, that was constructed in Kankakee, Illinois in 1900-1901. Harley Bradley and his wife, Anna Hickox Bradley, were the brother-and-sister-in-law of Warren Hickox, harley Bradley had inherited means from his grandfather, a local manufacturer of plowshares and other farm and garden implements. Tours are available for a fee, and the current owner. This mirroring theme was especially suited to the fenestration of the constructed in this style. USA Today commented that the house, reveals what would become his hallmarsk, long rows of windows, stained glass,82 of the Bradley Houses original 90 art glass windows survive. The home, as completed, included fittings and furnishings designed or chosen by Wright, ironically, much of the Bradley family fortune used to build and fit out the house had come from the implements used to plow up the prairie sod that is celebrated by the house. Harley Bradley House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Riverview Historic District on August 22,1986, on June 2,2009, it was individually recognized by the National Park Service with a listing
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Brandes House
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The Ray Brandes House is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home located at 2202 212th Avenue SE, Sammamish, Washington It was constructed in 1952. The home is constructed in Frank Lloyd Wrights Usonian style which is designed to flow between nature, the home and its interior. It is one of the preserved examples of this style. Landscaping was selected from local flora and fauna, typical of Frank Lloyd Wrights preference
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Broad Margin
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Broad Margin is a private residence in Greenville, South Carolina. The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and was built in 1954 and it is one of two buildings designed by Wright in South Carolina. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the house is built into the slope of the 2-acre lot. It extensively uses cypress wood throughout including its ceiling of cypress boards, the house has polished red concrete floors. Copper tubes are embedded in the floors to heat the house using hot water. The cypress furniture was designed for the house, the doors and window frames were constructed on-site of cypress. The house was documented with photographs and written historical data by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1988, sC-597, Broad Margin,9 West Avondale Drive, Greenville, Greenville, SC,28 photos,2 color transparencies,4 data pages,3 photo caption pages
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Maynard Buehler House
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The Maynard Buehler House in Orinda, California is a 4,000 square feet Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 for Katherine Z. Much of the Maynard Buehler House is steel frame with redwood panel cladding, like many Usonian homes, the house has a distinct flat roof line, carports, underfloor heating, and is organized on a modular grid system on an L-shaped plan. The carport is cantilevered to the extreme engineering capacity, a prop was put at the corner during construction to prevent sagging. The roof was built two inches too high at that corner and when the prop was removed the roof settled right down to the proper level and this was a trademark of Wright, to take engineering to the extreme. The long leg of the L houses a wing with three bedrooms, and a small workshop, at the hinge, a small kitchen with wood cabinets and a dark countertop served the family. The more public spaces – a living room, den, the hexagonal living room opens onto a dramatic space, with a shed roof soaring over it. The sloped ceiling has a large gold leaf inset that reflects the natural light. The hallway leading to the bedrooms is of redwood batten, as are the walls in the bathroom, the kitchen, with its wood cabinets and dark counter top, is conveniently nestled near the center of the house. The smaller wing was designed to accommodate Mr. Buehler’s need for a home office and he was known for machining the highest-quality mounts, bases, and rings for rifle scopes. Wright designed a number of pieces of furniture for the house and they include a dining room set with the backs of the chairs that do not intentionally rise above the tabletop so as not to impede the view of the garden. The wooden dining table consists of pieces that can be moved around and more pieces added to create a large setting for Thanksgiving. The living room has a bench along the perimeter. Manuel Sandoval, who made the cabinetry and furniture for the V. C. Morris Gift Shop, the building is on 3.5 acres of land transversed by a small stream. The house is surrounded with Japanese style gardens designed by Henry Matsutani, there is an expansive lawn area that sprawls away from the main living area and a ceremonial Japanese Tea House or chashitsu at the farthest reach of the property. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12,2006, National Register of Historic Places listings in Contra Costa County, California List of Frank Lloyd Wright works List of Frank Lloyd Wright works by location Storrer, William Allin
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Maynard and Katherine Buehler House
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A. H. Bulbulian Residence
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The A. H. Bulbulian Residence is a house located at 1229 Skyline Drive, Rochester, Minnesota, United States. It was designed by noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Arthur H. Bulbulian and it is down the street from the Thomas Keys House and not far from the James McBean Residence, all three examples of Wrights Usonian genre of architecture. The Bulbulian Residence is a house built with one 120-degree angle. The house has recently restored to near-original condition. The Bulbulian House, A New Rochester Skyline All-Wright Site - Frank Lloyd Wright Building Guide - Minnesota
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The Bulbulian House as seen from Skyline Drive, Rochester, Minnesota
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James Charnley House
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The James Charnley Residence is located in Chicagos Gold Coast neighborhood, at 1365 North Astor Street. The house is now called the Charnley–Persky House and is operated as a museum, an Adler & Sullivan design, the townhouse is the work of Louis Sullivan and a young Frank Lloyd Wright, who was a junior draftsman in Sullivans office at the time. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, the house was completed in 1892 for Charnley, a Chicago lumberman who lived in the house with his family for about a decade. The building was owned by members of the Waller family. The house was purchased by the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in 1986. Seymour Persky purchased the house in 1995 and donated it to the SAH who renamed the building to the Charnley–Persky House to honor their benefactor. The plain brick facade with simple ornamentation was quite different from houses on the Gold Coast. First and second floor plan Historic American Buildings Survey HABS ILL, 16-CHIG, the Charnley House, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Making of Chicagos Gold Coast, University of Chicago Press,249 pages Charnley House Website A site about the James Charnley House
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James Charnley House
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Adler & Sullivan Works
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Edwin H. Cheney House
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Edwin H. Cheney House located in Oak Park, Illinois, United States, was Frank Lloyd Wrights design of this residence for electrical engineer Edwin Cheney. The house is part of the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District and it is a brick house with the living and sleeping rooms all on one floor under a single hipped roof. The living rooms, which take up the front of the house. The basement features a large in-law suite, the house is currently a bed-and-breakfast inn. Cheney for a year in Europe. This era of Wrights life ended in 1914 when Mrs. Cheney and her children were murdered at Taliesin by an insane servant
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Edwin H. Cheney House
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James B. Christie House
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The James B. Christie House is a large, flat-roofed Usonian on a wooded site in Bernardsville, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The Christie House, built in 1940, is Frank Lloyd Wrights oldest and, at 2,000 square feet, the residence has one story and is made of brick, cypress, and redwood. It is designed in an L-shaped plan with a living room. The kitchen is in the corner of the L, like a hinge connecting the two sections, separating public from private areas, the flat roof with its overhanging soffit reinforces the sprawling horizontal design. Christie, his first New Jersey client, to select a setting that has as much individuality as to topography and features—stream, trees, etc. and as much freedom from adjacent buildings as is possible. University of Chicago Press,2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 Mr. and Mrs. James Bryan Christie House, Bernardsville, New Jersey, graphite and color pencil on tracing paper,18 × 35½. Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. ©2008 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society, New York Mr. and Mrs. James Bryan Christie House, Bernardsville, New Jersey, graphite and color pencil on tracing paper,18 × 35½
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Andrew B. Cooke House
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Cooke House in Virginia Beach, Virginia, was designed in 1953 and completed in 1959 for Andrew B. Along with the Pope-Leighey House and the Luis Marden House, it is one of three Frank Lloyd Wright designs in Virginia, a variation of Wrights solar hemicycle designs, the Cooke House features yellow-gold brick and a copper, cantilevered roof. University Of Chicago Press,2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2
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Coonley House
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The Avery Coonley House, also known as the Coonley House or Coonley Estate was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Constructed 1908-12, this is an estate of several buildings built on the banks of the Des Plaines River in Riverside, Illinois. It is itself a National Historic Landmark and is included in another National Historic Landmark, the Avery Coonley House in Riverside, Illinois, is located on a unique small peninsula surrounded by the Des Plaines River. Of the few estates that Frank Lloyd Wright developed, it is one of his largest and most elaborate prairie school-homes ever built and it is one of just three multi-building prairie complexes built by the famed architect. The other two are the Dana-Thomas House and the Darwin D. Martin House complexes, the Coonley house is also the first example in Wrights work of a zoned plan. The raised second floor includes three zones, The public area, the wing and finally the kitchen and servants areas. The original residence was over-9000-square-feet and built on a ten-acre parcel, the entrance halls, playroom and sewing room are on the ground floor. An entire complex of interrelated buildings with extensive raised and sunken gardens was designed by landscape architect Jens Jensen, the main structure of the Avery Coonley Estate is the public-living room wing, located on Bloomingbank Road and behind that facing Scottswood Road is the bedroom wing of the mansion. The complex also includes a separate house and gardeners cottage. The Coonleys had investigated Wrights other homes and told him that they saw in his work the countenances of principle, Wright stated in his autobiography that This was to me a great and sincere compliment. So I put my best into the Coonley House and he designed all the features and furnishings within the home, including rugs and textiles. Wright had been rumored to have designed dresses worn by Queene Ferry to compliment the interior surroundings, the designs of the Coonley House were included in his 1907 exhibition at the Chicago Architectural Club. A philanthropic couple, The Coonleys had progressive beliefs which included education for children. At the age of four years, their only daughter Elizabeth was too young to attend the local school. To educate her child and others, Queene Ferry requested that Wright design a kindergarten, The Avery Coonley School Playhouse, in 1912 on nearby Fairbank Road, the art glass windows of the Coonley Playhouse feature one of Frank Lloyd Wrights most well known designs. Many of the originals can be seen in such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The colored side of the art glass windows faced the inside of the house, the kindergarten school moved from the Coonley Playhouse in Riverside to a larger facility in Downers Grove in 1916 and eventually became a full K-8 elementary school and still exists today. The original Coonley Playhouse near the estate in Riverside is currently a private residence, alterations to the Coonley Estate have been made through the years, by Wright and others
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William H. Copeland House
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The William H. Copeland House is a home located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. In 1909 the home underwent a remodeling designed by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the original, Italianate home was built in the 1870s. Dr. William H. Copeland commissioned Wright for the remodel and that version was rejected and the result was the more subdued, less severely Prairie, William H. Copeland House. On the exterior the most significant alteration by Wright was the addition of a hip roof. The house has been listed as a property to a U. S. The William Copeland House was first constructed around 1873 for William H. Harman, the large, Italianate home represented a microcosm of the general character of homes in Oak Park before Wright began designing buildings. Homes of this style, classically tinged and robust, dotted the landscape of small towns across the United States, in 1909 the then-owner, Dr. William Copeland, a prominent surgeon with offices in Chicago and Cleveland, commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to remodel the home. It was the commission for Wright from Copeland, in 1908 the architect had designed a garage for Copeland at the residence. The Copeland House was designed around 1873 by an unknown architect, Wrights 1909 remodel work included exterior and interior alterations. A new tile roof was added above the brick work. The work fused Wrights Prairie style with the traditional Italiante style through the exterior lines. The remodeling work also replaced the doors with doors, frame, sidelights. Wrights original plan called for the Copeland House to be remodeled into a three-story Prairie house, the result was that the Wright-designed remodel was not as ambitious as it had been planned to be originally. Of the exterior work Wright designed, the new roof was the most substantial, in addition to the expansive exterior work Wright remodeled the main rooms on the ground floor to adhere to his Prairie style. Also inside he designed the dining room sideboard, table and chairs, the Copeland House is an example of Wrights remodeling design work. It is listed as a property to the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District. The historic district joined the U. S. National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the William Copeland House is one of three homes in Oak Park that Wright was commissioned to remodel. The other two are the 1906 Peter A. Beachy House and the Hills-DeCaro House, also on Forest Avenue, Wright also added a large brick fireplace to the library
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William H. Copeland House
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The Crimson Beech
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The Crimson Beech is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright located in the Lighthouse Hill neighborhood of the New York City borough of Staten Island. Its original owners, Catherine and William Cass, had it manufactured by Marshall Erdman in kit form in Madison, Wisconsin and it is the only residence designed by Wright in New York City and one of eleven Marshall Erdman Prefab Houses that were built. The particular model is known as the Prefab #1, the house features a combined kitchen and family room, a sunken living room with a cathedral ceiling, and a gallery that leads to four bedrooms. All interior walls are paneled in Philippine mahogany, with raised horizontal bands set about a foot apart, the house is a long and low L shape, with wide hip roofs. The exterior, red brick and largely clad in cream-colored Masonite, is similarly striped with redwood battens that emphasize the low-slung lines, the front of the house has one story, while the rear, because of the sloping site, has two. The roof is made of terne, at the time of construction, the components of the house cost $20,000 and assembly cost a further $35,000. The house was declared a landmark in August 1990 and the original owners resided there until 1999 when it was sold
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Catherine and William Cass House ("The Crimson Beech")
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Walter V. Davidson House
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The Walter V. Davidson House, located at 57 Tillinghast Place in Buffalo, New York, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1908. It is an example of Wrights Prairie School architectural style, the house is a contributing property to the Parkside East Historic District, a neighborhood laid out by renowned American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1876. Wrights patron, Walter V. Davidson, had joined the Larkin Company in Buffalo as the manager in 1906. Davidson was introduced to Wright by fellow Larkin executive Darwin D. Martin, consequently, Wright was commissioned to build a house by Davidson, and in turn another Larkin employee William R. Heath. Davidson left both the house and the Larkin Company in 1913 to establish the Davidson Shoe Company, in a house built on a relatively modest budget, Wright emphasized space and light rather than ornament. This helped make the Davidson House notable in several respects, primarily as a Tall Living Room house, the living room is two stories high featuring a 2-story bay window on the east wall and 1 1⁄2-story-high clerestory windows on the north and south walls. These panes are oriented horizontally, rather than vertically, uncommon to the style of the day, each pane is offset a number of degrees, rather than laid flat on an even plane, increasing privacy due to light reflecting off the glass at different angles. The basic floor plan is cruciform, on the ground floor is the dining room, and at the opposite end a porch, with the Tall Living Room and the second story centered in the middle. The floor plan is almost identical to the Isabel Roberts House, built that year in River Forest, Illinois. This resulted in the room being oriented to the side of the house rather than the street front. This view was quickly lost, however, when the next door was built. Like the William R. Heath House the Davidson House has a basement containing the utilities, a laundry, pantry. Nearby are the kitchen and side entry on the ground floor, there are three bedrooms and bathroom on the second floor. In the 1930s the residence was remodeled, updating the kitchen, one of the original bedrooms was reduced in size and a closet eliminated to make way for a hallway leading to the new suite, which consisted of a dressing chamber, bathroom, and sleeping chamber. The addition incorporated the same casement windows of diamond-shaped leaded glass prevalent in the rest of the house
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Walter V. Davidson House
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Dining Room with Built-In Side Board
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Dr. Richard Davis House
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The Usonian style home was constructed in 1955. An addition was completed in 1960 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. University Of Chicago Press,2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 Davis house on Wiki Marion Photo of the Davis house Davis house on flickr. com Dr. Richard Davis House named Woodside
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K. C. DeRhodes House
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DeRhodes House is a classic 1906 Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie style home located at 715 West Washington Avenue in South Bend, Indiana. The home has been restored by its current owners over more than two decades and remains in private ownership. It is one of two Wright homes in South Bend, the other being the Herman T, in 1906, newlyweds Laura Caskey Bowsher DeRhodes and Kersey C. DeRhodes built a house in South Bend, Indiana, designed for them in the Oak Park studio of Frank Lloyd Wright. In plan, the DeRhodes house is a image of the 1904 Barton House in Buffalo. An entry/foyer to the east and the stairway and kitchen wing to the west extend the plan into a cruciform shape, terraces protected by low walls at the north and south ends of the house extend the living space into the surrounding landscape. Laura Caskey Bowsher DeRhodes Laura Caskey was born in Ligonier, Indiana, before her marriage to Kersey C. DeRhodes, Laura Caskey was the wife of South Bend industrialist-millionaire Nelson Prentice Bowsher. Bowsher rose from being an inventor and master mechanic at the Oliver Chilled Plow Works to the proprietor of his own manufacturing business, by his first wife, Clarissa C. Hostetter, Bowsher had two sons, Delavan Denis Bowsher and Jay C, prior to her marriage to DeRhodes, Laura lived in the Bowsher family mansion at 805 West Washington, South Bend. DeRhodes was born in Fairfield, Ohio, the son of farmer David, after coming to South Bend in 1901, DeRhodes served as the cashier of the Merchants National Bank. He also served as the treasurer of the Williams-Forrest Machine Company and his residence before his marriage to Laura C. Bowsher was at 329 West Colfax Avenue, now the site of the First Presbyterian Church of South Bend. From a prior marriage, he had one daughter, Hazel M. DeRhodes, Bowsher visited with her South Bend friend Isabel Roberts in Berwyn, Illinois. She commissioned Wrights Oak Park studio to design a house for her to be located at 715 West Washington Avenue, Isabel Roberts stated that she was the designer of this house, although since it came from Wrights studio it has always been attributed to him. On September 22,1906, in Berwyn, Illinois, Laura Caskey Bowsher, DeRhodes were married, the officiating minister was Frank Lloyd Wrights uncle, the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Laura and Kersey DeRhodes lived in their Wright-designed house the rest of their lives, they were South Bend social, DeRhodes later business pursuits included the Vernon Clothing Company, the DeRhodes Motor Company. The DeRhodes were members of the First Methodist Church of South Bend, Laura was a member of the Progress Club
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John and Syd Dobkins House
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Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 and completed in 1954, the John and Syd Dobkins House is one of three Wright-designed Usonian houses in Canton, Ohio. Located farther east than the Nathan Rubin Residence and the Ellis A. Feiman House, it is set back from the road, has tall, thin casement windows and its distinctive geometric design module based upon an equilateral triangle reflects Wrights Usonian design philosophy. An apprentice came from Taliesin to oversee construction of the houses in Canton and that was standard operating procedure for Wright. It was also standard that he would get a map of a site before he began a design. The house was built on a parcel that was once a cornfield. Along with a design for the house, Wright created an ingenious planting plan for the property which featured 14 pin oak planted in perfect relation to the structure
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John and Syd Dobkins House
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Ennis House
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The Ennis House is a residential dwelling in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, south of Griffith Park. The home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Charles and Mabel Ennis in 1923 and was built in 1924 and its prominent detail is the relief ornamentation on its textile blocks, inspired by the symmetrical reliefs of Mayan buildings in Uxmal. The Ennis House is a city, state, and national landmark. It is currently owned by billionaire Ronald Burkle, costs escalated owing to difficulties developed during construction, which was supervised by Frank Lloyd Wrights son Lloyd Wright. The owners took over after the reached the windows and carried out various changes. The house consists of two buildings, the house and a smaller chauffeurs apartment/garage, separated by a paved courtyard. The kitchen, pantry, guest room, dining room, living room, master bathroom and bedroom, upper terrace, and second bathroom and bedroom are at the eastern and lower end of the main building. In 1940, the house was sold to media personality John Nesbitt, who had Wright add a pool on the terrace, a billiard room on the ground floor. Although originally and currently known as the Ennis House, the building was known as the Ennis-Brown House. This became its name in 1980 when it was renamed in appreciation of its donation to the Trust for Preservation of Cultural Heritage by Augustus O. Brown, the eighth owner from 1968–1980. In August 2005, the house was returned to its name. Even before its completion the Ennis House was marked by structural instability, concrete blocks had cracked and lower sections of the walls buckled under tension. The use of decomposed granite from the site to color the textile blocks introduced natural impurities to the concrete mix, attempts to apply a protective coating caused additional problems. More damage occurred due to the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the precipitation during the 2004–2005 rainy season. The Ennis House Foundation had estimated that it could cost US$5 million just for stabilization costs, after the rains the building was briefly red-tagged as no entry but was down graded to yellow- for limited entry by late 2005. At that point significant damage to the wall at the southern rear of the building remained. In 2005 the house was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservations list of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. In 2006 a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant was issued, as well as a US$4.5 million construction loan through First Republic Bank, the project included a new structural support system, restoration or replacement of damaged blocks, restoration of windows, and a new roof
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During restoration, May 2007
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Fabyan Villa
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Fabyan Villa was the home of George and Nelle Fabyan from c.1908 to 1939. The house is notable because of its remodelling in 1907 by Frank Lloyd Wright and it was the centerpiece of the Fabyans country estate, which they named Riverbank. The Kane County Forest Preserve District of Illinois purchased the majority of the Fabyan estate in 1939, George Fabyan was a millionaire businessman who had a thirst for knowledge. Inheritance from his tycoon-fathers textile business, Bliss, Fabyan & Co. provided the foundation from which the Colonel and his wife, Nelle. The mid-1800s farmhouse that the Fabyans acquired in 1905 was dubbed by them, in 1907, the farmhouse was extensively redesigned by Wright, who added a south wing, three verandas, and large eaves to achieve a cruciform modestly Prairie-style country house. Other hallmarks of Wrights organic architecture found in the Fabyan Villa are geometric window motifs, light screens, string-coursing, open floor plan, in 1910, the Fabyans hired Taro Otsuka to design a Japanese-style garden below the villa. The one-acre garden was developed over the several years, and from 1918 on, maintained by Susumu Kobayashi. Japanese gardens were popular amongst the class, and it was a well-known attraction throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The Fabyan Windmill is unique due to the bakery it houses that according to legend, was used to bake bread for the Fabyans pet bears. During war-time rationing, the Windmill was used to grind grain for the surrounding community, between 1912 and 1922, Fabyan created Riverbank Laboratories, the first privately owned research facility in the United States. In fact, the National Security Agency has recognized Riverbank Laboratories as the birthplace of cryptology and has honored Fabyan for his services to the United States government. This site also contained Georges and Nelles private library and museum, in 1918, Fabyan built the first reverberation chamber in the US for Harvard physicist Wallace Clement Sabine, the pioneer researcher in architectural acoustics. The acoustic laboratory is still in use today as a testing facility, university Of Chicago Press,2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2. Fabyan Villa and Japanese Garden - official site, Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley Fabyan Villa on dgunning. org Fabyan Villa on waymarking. com Fabyan Villa at the archINFORM database. Fabyan Villa on franklloydwrightsites. com Photo of Fabyan Villa Fabyan Villa on peterbeers. net The story of how George Fabyan proved in a Chicago court that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare
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