Wright's Neighborhood
300 Kenilworth Avenue
Queen Anne style
The Frank Lloyd Wright/Prairie School of Architecture Historic District is a residential neighborhood in the Cook County, Illinois village of Oak Park, United States. The Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District is both a federally designated historic district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and a local historic district within the village of Oak Park. The districts have differing boundaries and contributing properties, over 80 of which were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, widely regarded as the greatest American architect to have ever lived.
308 Kenilworth Avenue
Stick style
Oak Park, Illinois was first settled in 1835 and incorporated as a village in 1901. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright came there in 1889 and designed his home which was built in 1889, in 1897 he added the studio along Chicago Avenue. Wright brought international attention to the village, designing 25 structures there in all; most of them within the historic district. The Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District provides a look at a cross section of Wright's work which spans several decades over his career. Some of his earliest works are within the district, leading up to buildings he designed during his "first mature period."
322 Kenilworth Avenue
In 1972 the village of Oak Park created and designated the Frank Lloyd
Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District as a local historic
district under its municipal laws. In December 1973 it was added as a federal
historic district on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District's boundaries for its National Register
listing is roughly the Oak Park roads of Clyde Street, Division Street, Lake
Street and a combination of Harlem Avenue. The district's local boundaries are
irregular but more specifically it is bounded by Division Street on its north,
Lake Street on its south, Ridgeland Avenue on its east, and Marion Street and
Woodbine Avenue on its west.
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334 Kenilworth Avenue
Harrison P Young house
remodeled in 1895 to Frank Lloyd Wright design