Winslow House

Frank Lloyd Wright – William H. Winslow House, River Forest, Illinois, 1893-1894

The Winslow House is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright located at 515 Auvergne Place in River Forest, Illinois. A landmark building in Wright's career, the Winslow House, built between 1893 and 1894, was his first major commission as an independent architect. While the design owes a huge debt to the earlier James Charnley House, Wright always considered the Winslow House extremely important to his career. Looking back on it in 1936, he described it as "the first 'prairie house.'"

Sheltered under a gable roof with wide eaves, the house is symmetrical and divided horizontally into a stone section, a section of golden Roman brick, and a terracotta frieze of Sullivanesque ornament. In contrast to the calm and balanced front facade, the rear is a mass of irregular geometric forms. The interior echoes both Wright's house and the Charnley House, with the fireplace in the center facing the entrance with rooms on either side and a hidden main staircase. Source: Wikipedia