Video: Frank Thomas House - (Oak Park, IL)

[DavidC]

"Frank Lloyd Wright's Masterpiece: The Frank W. Thomas House" - (3:15)


David

[Roderick Grant]

The entrance with widows all around is one of the best interiors of FLW's career,

[SDR]

More than one Wright residence is claimed as "the first Prairie house." I hadn't seen Thomas on that list, before . . .

S

[Reidy]

It's the first mature prairie house in Oak Park, but I've never seen anyone call it the first.

I've also read that it contains the first-ever recessed lights.

[SDR]

I suppose an effective answer to these many claims is the creation of a list of Wright "firsts," arranged chronologically and with each innovation ascribed to the building which contains it ?

S

[Roderick Grant]

That sounds like a tedious task.

[SDR]

Isn't most academic research tedious ? Wasn't the assembly of, say, the Taschen trio of volumes on Wright a tedious task ?

Or was that a rhetorical comment . . .

S

[Tim]

Like the question of who the best boxer of all time was or is, knowing the answer is of no real value, while the debate is endlessly entertaining.