Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House
| Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| Historic District Contributing Property | |||
 The Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House (2007) |
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| location | Oak Park , Cook County , Illinois | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 53 '30 " N , 87 ° 47' 56" W | ||
| Built | 1909 | ||
| architect | Frank Lloyd Wright | ||
| Architectural style | Prairie style | ||
| NRHP number | 70000239 | ||
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| The NRHP added | March 5th 1970 | ||
| Declared as CP | 4th December 1973 | ||
The Laura Gale House , also known as Laura Gale House known is a residential building in the Chicago suburb Oak Park , Illinois . The house was designed and built in 1909 by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright . It was entered on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1970 as a monument . Since December 4, 1973, Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House has been a Contributing Property of the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic Districts .
history
Laura R. Gale, the widow of real estate agent Thomas Gale, commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the house on Elizabeth Court in 1909. It wasn't the first time the Gale family had used Wright. The architect has already designed two houses on Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, two of the so-called “bootleg” houses, for the Gales. The Laura Gale House was built during Wright's most creative Prairie Style phase and is seen by architecture experts as a milestone in the development of early modern architecture . The house was inhabited by its original owners until 1962. At that time, the architect Howard Rosenwinkel bought it, who had a careful renovation carried out.
architecture
The house was designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright in his own prairie style . Nevertheless, Wright's use of his abstract geometric shapes in detail and throughout the house anticipated and arguably inspired modern European architects of the 1920s. The house is considered one of Wright's most unusual designs from his time in Oak Park, Illinois. It is compact and consists of interlocking right-angled shapes around a fireplace in the center. These heaped extreme right-angled forms of the exterior of the house are not found in any of Wright's other works, neither before nor after the completion of the Laura Gale house. The interior of the house corresponds to the Walser House in Chicago and the George Barton House in Buffalo , New York .
meaning
The Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House is considered one of Wright's most successful small house designs and pioneered several other important Prairie-style structures designed by Wright, culminating in the completion of Fallingwater in Mill Run , Pennsylvania in 1936 .
swell
- Thomas A. Heinz: The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright. Chartwell Books, Inc., Edison, New Jersey: 2006, pp. 142-143, 145, 153, ISBN 0-7858-2145-7 .
Remarks
- ^ Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Guide Map, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust .
- ^ Gale, Mrs. Thomas H., House on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 11, 2017.
- ^ Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 11, 2017.
- ^ A b Frank Lloyd Wright: Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House (1909). Oak Park River Forest Historical Society, accessed August 8, 2007 .
- ↑ a b c Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House. (PDF; 178 kB) (No longer available online.) In: ihpa.greatarc.com. National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, HAARGIS database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, archived from the original October 28, 2014 ; Retrieved September 29, 2012 . 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.
