Prairie School is a late 19th and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the use of ornament. Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate to the wide, flat, treeless expanses of America's native prairie landscape.
Chicago Avenue side of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, showing post-1911 changes to studio building.
Robie House, 1910. It is considered by many to be the quintessential Prairie house
Harold C. Bradley House, Madison, Wisconsin, by Louis Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie
Woodbury County Courthouse, Iowa, by William L. Steele and Purcell and Elmslie (associate architects)
In architecture, an overhang is a protruding structure that may provide protection for lower levels. Overhangs on two sides of Pennsylvania Dutch barns protect doors, windows, and other lower-level structures. Overhangs on all four sides of barns and larger, older farmhouses are common in Swiss architecture. An overhanging eave is the edge of a roof, protruding outwards from the side of the building, generally to provide weather protection.
Overhang on 16th century Tomb of Salim Chishti, Fatehpur Sikri, India
Overhangs on the White Palace in the Potala Palace complex—an example of Tibetan architecture from 1649.
A contemporary home in Glen Ellen California exemplifying the practice of Indoor-Outdoor Living design through an elongated overhang. Builder: Stillwater Dwellings.
15th century timber-framed houses with overhanging jetties in Thaxted, England.