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Mrs. T. H.
Gale House
In this house we saw walls that
looked like drawers that stuck out at us. People in
the neighborhood thought that this was the weirdest
house they'd ever seen when it was first built.
Some thought it was interesting and they liked it
but many hated it and wanted it to be torn down.
Over time people accepted the house and it turned
out to be an important part of the
neighborhood.
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W. H.
Copeland
House
Frank Lloyd
Wright seemed to make this house look
more "normal" than his other ones, but really he
didn't. Notice the columns
in front of the porch. If you look at the houses
near this one you won't see these kinds of
columns.
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Nathan G.
Moore
House
Frank Lloyd Wright didn't make this
house look like any of his other houses in this
neighborhood. He made huge slanted roofs, which
isn't his normal prairie style. This house burnt
down in 1922 and they had to rebuild it from
scratch. He kept one of his normal features though,
the hidden doorway. On this house the entrance is
to the left and there are two statues of lions that
guard the entranceway.
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Walter H.
Gale House
(Bootleg
House
#3)
Wright designed this house when he
was working for Louis Sullivan. Sullivan didn't
want Wright to design houses on his own, but Wright
designed them "behind Sullivan's back" and that is
how Bootleg Houses 1, 2, and 3 got their names. On
this house the entrance is down the side of the
house and it really is quite a ways down. Another
one of Frank Lloyd
Wright's tricks was that he made his
houses look like they had more stories than they
actually have. Another interesting thing about this
house is the porch. It is very cool.
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Robert P.
Parker House (Bootleg House
#1)
This house is said to look like the
Bootleg House #3. On this house however, the door
is not hidden. The other entrance to the house is.
It is down the driveway and to your right just
after the part of the house that juts out into the
driveway. Once again, he makes the house look like
it has more stories then it really has.
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Arthur
Heurtley
House
This house has a perfect example of
an arch
and also has one of Wright's
huge chimneys. First, the arch. Over to the side,
on the first floor is a perfect example of an arch.
Then, he shows you the beginning of his interest in
chimneys. If you look at later houses by Wright you
see that he tries to make you see the
chimney.
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Frank
W. Thomas
House
This house's front door is very hard
to see. You would think that the door is right
below the arch
on the first story. Well, it's not. The door is on
the second story. The windows of this house are
very unique. The eaves
hang way over the sides of the house so that in the
winter sunlight can come in, but in the summer
sunlight doesn't shine through. You can't see them
right now but across the whole house there are dark
green beads. No one knows how many beads there are
on the house. (Nobody felt like counting them
all!)
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Frank Lloyd
Wright Home and Studio (West
Side)
Frank Lloyd
Wright designed this house for his
family. Wright made an office for himself, inside
of his house. He also put a separate door for
people who were going to visit him, and not his
family. The house was later turned into an inn
after Wright had run away with another woman and
his family had passed away. Now the Chicago
Architecture Foundation uses it for
tours.
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