Laura Gale House

The Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House, also known as Laura Gale House, is a house in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. The house was designed and built by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1909. It is located within the Frank Lloyd Wright - Prairie School of Architecture Historic District and was registered on 5 March 1970 in the National Register of Historic Places.

History

Laura R. Gale, the reality of the broker Thomas Gale widow, commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright in 1909, the house design on Elizabeth Court. It was not the first time that the family Gale Wright had claimed. The architect has designed two houses at the Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, two of the so-called " bootleg" houses, for the Gales. The Laura Gale House was built during Wright's create the most joyful Prairie -style architecture phase and is seen by experts as a milestone in the development of early modern architecture. The house was inhabited until 1962 by its original owners. At that time it was purchased by the architect Howard Rosenwinkel, which carried out a thorough renovation.

Architecture

The house was designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright in his own Prairie Style. Nevertheless, the use of his abstract geometric shapes in detail and all over the house by Wright has anticipated the modern European architects of the 1920s and probably inspired. The house is considered one of the most unusual designs Wright from his time in Oak Park, Illinois. It is compact and consists of running into each other rectangular shapes, which are set around a fireplace in the center. This heaping extreme rectangular shapes of the exterior of the home is to be found in any of Wright's other works again, 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 Barton House in Buffalo, New York.

Importance

The Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House is one of the most successful small house designs Wrights and as a pioneer in several other important Wright Prairie Style designed buildings, which culminated in 1936 represented the completion of Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania.

Swell

  • Thomas A. Heinz: The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright. Chartwell Books, Inc., Edison, New Jersey: 2006, pp. 142-143, 145, 153, ISBN 0785821457th

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  • Residential buildings in Illinois
  • Monument on the National Register of Historic Places (Illinois )
  • Building by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Oak Park (Illinois )
Oak Park (Illinois)
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