Robie House has seen its share of scandal. In 1908, Wright was 41 years old and had designed dozens of houses, not only in his home base, Oak Park, but also in Chicago and other Illinois towns ...

But the pitch from Landmarks Illinois, the Chicago-based non-profit that runs ... The same issue is in play at Wright’s Robie House, the culmination of the architect’s Prairie Style.

It’s a masterpiece. The word, often overused, fits. Let’s use it. The artistry of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House is dazzling, from its sweeping horizontal planes to its delicate bands of ...

Journalists packed into the second floor living room as guests, including Illinois state ... for Frederick C. Robie, the house was completed in 1910. A private residence until 1926, it was then ...

Lora Hieronymus Robie, one-half of the couple who had Frank Lloyd Wright design Chicago’s famed Robie House, spent far more ... and later president of the Illinois National Bank.

It takes visitors from the hustle and bustle of downtown Chicago to quiet spaces in the ... JESMER: This is the Robie House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Thomas Hoeddinghaus came from Germany ...

Woodlawn Ave. for clients Frederick and Lora Robie. A national historic landmark, the house is “a masterpiece, dazzling,” now-retired Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin wrote in ...

Robie House in Hyde Park and the Emil Bach ... and does not meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards, Landmarks Illinois said. The 2018 Chicago Park District South Lakefront Framework ...