Here is a picture of a Prairie School style apartment building located in Edgewater, Chicago, IL.

Huge apartments with original wood beam ceilings. Exposed brick work design, original hard wood floors etc...

This was definitly designed by a Prairie School architect in the early 1900s.

You can see a strong Frank Lloyd Wright influence.

I'm waiting for this rental apartment building to go condominium so that I can make an offer.


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The entrance. Original green arts and crafts tile on the walls in the vestibule.

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some of the detail work along side the entrance.


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A view from the steet looking up.


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and some of the detail near the roof. Very Wright!


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Here is another Prairie School style condominium building. Using yellow brick.

Less ornate than the first one.

For those of you who dont know what condominiums are they are units in a building that you buy opposed to renting.

Keep checking back to this post because I'm going to keep this thread going.

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Here is another Prairie School style condominium
building.It's been rehabbed.

Pre-1914


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The entrance.


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Check out the detail of the front door.

The detail of the front door is very much like the windows Frank Lloyd Wright designed.

It's very beautiful at night.

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Check out the balcony. In those days it was meant to be slept in. See the air holes incorporated in the design? That's so the breeze from the lake which is near by would go through.


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A common arts and crafts design along side the entrance.

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Hello Rico,
Thank you for showing these buildings and I have been by the first one on a trip that I made to Chicago while researching information of Frank Lloyd Wright who lived in Oak Park in a house with the family living quarters on the second floor.
The house was built 1889-1895 and later became the laboratory for many of his experiments in domestic architecture. Here, in an idyllic American suburb, with giant oaks, sprawling lawns and no fences. Wright built some sixty rambling homes by the year 1900 (when he forged the "Prairie Style"). The Nathan Moore House, 1895, (rebuilt 1923 after a fire) is one of the best of the period - although Wright was later to think it one of the worst.

As an independent architect, Wright became the leader of a style known as the Prairie school.

Houses with low pitched roofs and extended lines that blend into the landscape typify his style of "organic architecture".

In 1904 he designed the strong, functional Larkin Building in Buffalo, N.Y., and in 1906 the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois.

I feel that your posting of the pictures and my little tid bit of history about Mr. Wright go together pretty well and this is what prompted me to jump in on your topic.

Thank you for the opportunity.

Respectfully,

Ralph Jones