Emil Bach House
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| location | Rogers Park , Chicago , Illinois | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 0 '59.7 " N , 87 ° 39' 53.5" W | ||
| Built | 1915 | ||
| architect | Frank Lloyd Wright | ||
| Architectural style | Prairie style | ||
| NRHP number | 79000821 | ||
| The NRHP added | January 23, 1979 | ||
The Emil Bach House is in the Prairie Style house built in Rogers Park , a district of Chicago in Illinois , United States , which by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed. The house was built in 1915 for Emil Bach, an admirer of Wright and a co-owner of the Bach Brick Company . The Bach House was declared a Chicago Landmark on September 28, 1977 and entered on the National Register of Historic Places on January 23, 1979 .
history
Emil Bach and his wife bought the property for their planned house on December 5, 1914 from Amelia Ludwick and her husband; In 1915 they commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the building. In 1934 Joseph Peacock bought the house and owned it until 1947. In 1951 the owner changed twice; Finally, in December the house passed into the ownership of Manuel Weiss, who sold it to Joseph Blinder in 1959.
The fifth owner of the house put it up for sale in 2005. The initial set selling price was 2.5 million US dollars ; later the price was reduced to $ 1.9 million. The item was on the market for a few months before an auction was finally called. The starting bid was $ 750,000, less than a third of the original price. The reasons for the difficult sale of the Wright-designed house include monument protection regulations , but also the special features of the Rogers Park district.
The preservationists were concerned about the auction and about the fate of the side garden, which is 13.5 meters wide and 45 meters long and is located in a zone where tall apartment buildings are allowed to be built. When the house was finally auctioned well above the starting price, the new owners announced that they wanted to live in the house and keep the garden.
architecture
The house is one of the few houses that Wright designed after his return from Europe in 1911 and that are also located in Chicago. It is part of a series of geometric, cube-like houses with overhanging flat roofs, as designed by Wright at the beginning of the 20th century. 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 this type in Chicago, Bach House is the only building still standing.
The 2,700 square foot building is designed as a two story single family home with a basement. When it was originally built, it was a "country house" with Lake Michigan in sight from the rear on the east side . Due to the changes in the Rogers Park district in which it is located, the house is now located between commercial buildings and apartment blocks on a busy street, North Sheridan Road . Due to the lake view, the building originally had a large rear porch and a sun terrace; both were turned into closed spaces when other buildings were erected between the Bach House and the lake that blocked the view. Mainly glass was used, which means that Wright's intended impression and the original design were largely preserved. Other changes to the building involve the removal of Wright pen built-in furniture. An armchair was removed from the living room and a counter disappeared from the dining room. On the second floor, the servants' room was converted into a second bathroom.
meaning
The Bach House is an example of Frank Lloyd Wright's late Prairie style and was designed by him in the period shortly before the time when his style became more expressionistic and more influenced by the Japanese aesthetic. The uniqueness of the house, its high artistic value and the reputation of the famous architect represent the significant historical and cultural value.
Bach House is in a prime Chicago location one block from Lake Michigan . The neighborhood is an area where urban development companies bought land to build high-floor apartment blocks. A twenty-year-old monument protection plan , the demolition or alteration of the house without the consent of the city and the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois prohibits, was the director of the Association believes Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy in Chicago probably the only reason the abort the prevented.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bach House ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , "CityofChicago.org, Chicago Landmarks. Retrieved June 5, 2007.
- ^ Bach, Emil, House in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 10, 2017.
- ^ Emil Bach House , Historic American Buildings Survey , Survey Number: HABS IL-1088, Library of Congress. Retrieved June 5, 2007.
- ^ A b c d Margaret Foster: 1915 Wright house to be auctioned ( September 28, 2006 memento in the Internet Archive ) Online Preservation , National Trust for Historic Preservation, February 24, 2005, accessed October 16, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Anonymous. Frank Lloyd Wright house to be auctioned , " Associated Press , via MSNBC.com , February 25, 2005. Retrieved June 5, 2007.
- ^ One of Country's First Frank Lloyd Wright Home Auctions Set for March in Chicago ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), "(via Find Articles and Business Wire), Inland Real Estate Auction, Inc. February 22, 2005 Retrieved June 5, 2007.
- ^ Historic Frank Lloyd Wright Home Auction Brings Sale Price Well above Opening Bid; The New Owner Will Not Develop the Side Yard , (via Find Articles and Business Wire), Inland Real Estate Auction, Inc. March 9, 2005. Retrieved June 5, 2007.
- ^ A b c d e Emil Bach House ( Memento of October 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), "(PDF), National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency . Retrieved June 5, 2007.
- ↑ Mertens, Richard. " . Wright house Wrong place? In:. Christian Science Monitor , March 9, 2005. Retrieved on 5 June 2007.
