Walter Gale House 1893

 Frank Lloyd Wright - Walter Gale House - 1893

The 1st Home Wright designed after leaving the Firm of (Louis Sullivan) - Oak Park, Illinois - Chicago

U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

a local Landmark by the village of Oak Park.

The house was commissioned by Walter H. Gale of a prominent Oak Park family and is the first home Wright designed (at 26 years old) after leaving the firm of Adler & Sullivan (run by engineer Dankmar Adler and architect, Louis Sullivan).

The house is designed in a geometric Queen Anne style and demonstrates Wright's predilection for informal planning. The Queen Anne design, influenced by Wright's first teacher, Louis Sullivan, demonstrates just how far Wright had to go before his early modern style, known as Prairie style, was fully mature.

The house, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on August 17, 1973. The house was designated a local landmark by the village of Oak Park on the same day it was listed on the National Register.

Photographs by Hardy Wieting in 1975

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Today's quote:

“Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.” 

 American playwright Eugene O’Neill 

Today's art:

Room in New York 1932 by Edward Hopper

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