William B. Green house

William B. Green house

Lawrence Technological University

January 28, 2015

Wright, Frank Lloyd

O’Connor, Thomas (photograph)

American

Single Built Works

July, 1965

Illinois (state)

Aurora (inhabited place)

Prairie School

houses

windows

Detail view of windows on three levels of the Green house in Aurora, Illinois designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1912. "…the house is designed in the Prairie style of Wright’s history: a low-pitched roof, overhanging eaves, horizontal lines, central chimney, open floor plan and clerestory windows …he home was at that time the smallest home that Wright designed and the only Wright home in Aurora (it is however, larger today than when Wright originally designed it). There are also several attributes of the home – i.e., the gabled roof, as opposed to the flat one that Wright typically used, and the Greenes liked the casement windows – that cause some to label the design as an “arguably disorganized layout …There was a 1926 addition to the western side of the house which, “according to Wright Historian Thomas Heinz, was supervised by Greene's college roommate Harry Robinson” (it nearly doubled the size of the house to accommodate Greene's growing family),"--Frank Lloyd Wright sites web page.

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