Wright Plus 2015

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 10:47 am

http://globegazette.com/entertainment/l ... 9af41.html

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:17 am

Wright Plus house walk offers rare look inside homes

David

clydethecat · Post by **clydethecat** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 4:18 pm

The Hemingway house is Prairie? Looks like A&C-era to me.

Unbrook · Post by **Unbrook** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 4:23 pm

How do you distinguish Prairie Style from Arts and Crafts (AC)? Aren't they variations on the same theme?

Oak Park Jogger · Post by **Oak Park Jogger** » Mon May 04, 2015 7:50 am

Just did my volunteer training for the housewalk over the weekend and heard that there are still a few tickets left. This is a GREAT selection of home!!! You could still make plans to attend!!

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Mon May 04, 2015 8:43 am

CONTEST! Win tickets to the Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk

David

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon May 04, 2015 11:19 am

I found another photo of the Hemingway house. If broad eaves, banded second-story openings, and Griffin-style roofs on the dormers make this a Prairie-style residence, okay. Arts and Crafts ? Not really. (The paint scheme surely indicates that the owner doesn't place this building in either of those categories . . .)

In looking at the pair of flat-topped houses, one by Frank Delos Wolfe, on another thread, it occurred to me that we have too few pigeonholes for the period in question; those houses are "Prairie" only because we don't have a better-named slot to fit them. "American Secession" ?

SDR

DRN · Post by **DRN** » Mon May 04, 2015 12:17 pm

Something was "going around" in the teens and early '20's....
Young Bruce Goff's take on this "grammar":

http://www.prairiemod.com/.a/6a00d8341b ... 970d-popup

and another:

http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/14000299.htm

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon May 04, 2015 1:20 pm

Good examples. "Flat-topped" is not really the best descriptor for these designs, is it; "wearing a hat" -- such as a straw boater -- might be better. I can't think of a Wright design, in fact, which carries this combination of terminal forms -- though there must be one . . .

Oscar Balch (1911) perhaps qualifies.

SDR

DRN · Post by **DRN** » Mon May 04, 2015 2:06 pm

Could Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park have been generative idea for these forms at a much smaller scale?

https://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/unity/whole.jpg

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Tue May 19, 2015 2:59 pm

The pursuit of goodness

David

SREcklund · Post by **SREcklund** » Tue May 19, 2015 4:55 pm

He's absolutely right about the feelings elicited by touring Coonley; I was smart (fortunate?) enough to be on the first bus to Riverside, and when I emerged from my tour and found only 20 people waiting to enter, immediately seized the chance to double up on the experience.