The Walter H. Gale House, located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1893. The house was commissioned by Walter H. Gale of a prominent Oak Park family and is the first home Wright designed after leaving the firm of Adler & Sullivan. The Gale House was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on August 17, 1973.
Walter Gale House
By suburban American standards the Gale House is quite close to other structures. The house on the left is another Frank Lloyd Wright building, the Thomas H. Gale House.
Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, adjacent to Chicago. It is the 26th-most populous municipality in Illinois, with a population of 54,583 as of the 2020 census. Oak Park was first settled in 1835 and later incorporated in 1902, when it separated from Cicero. It is closely tied to the smaller town of River Forest.
Lake Street at dusk
Ernest Hemingway in Oak Park, 1919
The business entrance of Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio in Oak Park
Harlem/Lake station on the Chicago 'L' Green Line