George W. Smith House
| George W. Smith House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| Historic District Contributing Property | |||
 George W. Smith House in Oak Park |
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| location | Oak Park , Cook County , Illinois | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 52 '52 " N , 87 ° 47' 58" W | ||
| Built | 1895-98 | ||
| architect | Frank Lloyd Wright | ||
| Architectural style | Queen Anne Style | ||
| NRHP number | 83003564 | ||
| The NRHP added | December 8, 1983 | ||
The George W. Smith House is a residential building in Oak Park , a western suburb of Chicago , Illinois in the United States , designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1895. It was built in 1898 and occupied by a merchant from the Marshall Field Company . The design elements were also used when Wright designed the Unity Temple in Oak Park a decade later . The house is listed as a Contributing Property of the Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District and with this was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in December 1983.
history
The George W. Smith House was designed in 1895 by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Charles E. Roberts . It was one of a series of budget houses that Wright designed for Roberts, but that were not realized at the time of their design. The house's eventual owner and namesake, George W. Smith, was a businessman for the Chicago firm Marshall Field & Company.
architecture
The house is designed in the " shingle style ", a variant of the Queen Anne style , and precedes the full development of Wright's early prairie style architecture . The most eye-catching feature of the Smith house is the angled kink in the roof panel. The details of the house would likely be more appropriate for a plastered house than for a clapboard facade. There are no early photographs of the building whatsoever to determine if the exterior was ever changed. The wall and the decorative pillars form a folded surface as they continue across the corners. Wright used the same effect ten years later when he designed the Unity Temple , of which George W. Smith was parishioner. The Smith House is similar to the Harry Goodrich House , despite the raised roof with the double ridge. The Goodrich House, a Wright design from 1896, could also have been one of the unrealized houses. that Wright had drawn for Roberts. The clapboard contrasts with the style Frank Lloyd Wright used at the time the house was built in 1898. During this period he began to use horizontal panels with roof battens, which achieved the linear, horizontal effect of his later work. The design for the George W. Smith House is clearly an example from Wright's early period. The house also missing corner panels that allows the shingle envelope to continuously wrap around the sides, and a hipped roof - Dormer windows , both elements typical of the shingle style are. Wright's early attempts at what would later become hallmarks of the Prairie Style can also be seen on Smith House. The wide, flat chimney that dominates the front, as well as the minimalist horizontal skirting boards, are both obvious elements of the house that are actually present in the Prairie Style.
meaning
The house is an early example of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. It is part of the Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District and was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1983. The house is one of two Frank Lloyd Wright designs within the Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District - the other is the Unity Temple - but is the only example of Wright's residential design within that area. This Historic District lacks examples of the fully developed Prairie Styles Wright, which is found in abundance in the nearby Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District .
literature
- Heinz, Thomas A. The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright , Chartwell Books, Inc., Edison, New Jersey: 2006, ( ISBN 0-7858-2145-7 )
- McAlester, Virginia & Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses , Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York: 1984, ( ISBN 0-394-73969-8 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b George W. Smith House , " Oak Park Tourist , from: Sprague, Paul E. Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright & Prairie School Architecture in Oak Park . Oak Park Bicentennial Commission of the American Revolution [and] Oak Park Landmarks Commission, Village of Oak Park: 1986, ( ISBN 0-9616915-0-6 ). Retrieved June 4, 2007.
- ↑ a b Heinz, page 70.
- ^ Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Guide Map, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.
- ↑ a b Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District , "(PDF), National Register of Historic Places nomination form HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency . Retrieved on 4 June 2007.
- ^ Heinz, page 67.
- ↑ Siry, Joseph. Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple and Architecture for Liberal Religion in Chicago, 1885-1909 , ( JSTOR ), The Art Bulletin , Vol. 73, no. June 2, 1991, pages 257-282. Retrieved June 4, 2007.
- ^ McAlester, pp. 289 f.
- ^ McAlester, p. 439 f.
- ^ Ridgeland-Oak Park Historic District on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 11, 2017.