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	Prairie School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prairie School was a late 19th and early 20th century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States.
		The style is marked by horizontal lines, flat roofs with broad overhanging eaves, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the use of ornament, in contrast to previous 19th century design.
		It is most associated with residences around Chicago built by a generation of architects trained, employed or influenced by Louis Sullivan, but does not include Sullivan himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prairie_Houses (276 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Garrett's Attic
		Each new house grew naturally and honestly from the needs of the people who would live in it and from the landscape, rather than from an historical design formula from the past.
		Prairie School architects added furnishings, often of their own custom-design, along with art glass, integrated lighting, and landscaping, lending harmony and integrity to the whole.
		The Prairie House reflects the search by Frank Lloyd Wright and his colleagues for an ideal, authentically American dwelling inspired by nature, shaped by human needs, and unified by a system of thoughtfully developed design principles.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/reviews/garrett/garrett12-7-00.asp (1183 words)

	2003 ASLA Awards
		Prairie Crossing lies at the western edge of Liberty Prairie Reserve, a 3,200-acre patchwork of farms, forests, and riparian corridors and home to 13 threatened and endangered species and natural landforms that reveal the unaltered effects of ice age glaciation on the northern Illinois landscape.
		In 1986 Prairie Crossing’s land was being cultivated in a rotation of corn and soybeans and was slated to become part of a sprawling suburb.
		Prairie Crossing encourages homeowners to plant prairie and wetland natives in place of sod and reduce or eliminate the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
	www.asla.org /lamag/lam03/october/feature1.html (2777 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		At the approach to the house, Wright reduced space by using an overhanging roof, side walls, and stairs that bring the person entering closer to the roof.
		In 1908 Wright designed a smaller prairie house, in River Forest, Illinois, for Isabel Roberts, his office bookkeeper and the daughter of an earlier client.
		The crowning achievement of Wright’s prairie architecture is the Frederick C. Robie house (1906-1909) on Chicago’s South Side.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761577834___3/Frank_Lloyd_Wright.html (1429 words)

	Prairie Style homes
		In designing the prairie house, Wright sought to "beat the box," to escape the rigidly defined spaces which he claimed were not only false representations of natural beauty but were also detrimental to the American family.
		The prairie house drew on the newer metropolitan notions that home life was not to be intruded upon except by invitation, that it was separate though not totally withdrawn from the rest of the community, and that contact with the outside world should be at the residents' discretion (82).
		Wright himself claimed that the interior of the prairie house held the greatest significance, and the outside "was there, chiefly because of what happened inside (10)." With his "open plan",he sought to "beat the box," to escape the Victorian compartmentalization which he claimed was stifling the American family.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CLASS/AM483_95/projects/wright/prayer.html (2078 words)

	American Praire style, Chicago Prairie style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Prairie houses were characterized by low, horizontal lines that were meant to blend with the flat landscape around them.
		Built at a cost of sixty thousand dollars, the house was commissioned by a successful young inventor who asked Wright to incorporate the newest technology in his design for a contemporary house that had everything in it, from furnishings to modern utilities.
		Robie House is a national landmark and has been designated by the American Institute of Architects as one of seventeen buildings designed by Wright to be retained as an example of his architectural contribution to American culture.
	www.bozzle.com /perPrarie.html (507 words)

	Architecture: The Prairie School
		The Prairie School was a primarily residential architectural movement that began in Chicago yet rapidly spread across the Midwest.
		A second factor nourishing the emergence of the Prairie School was the existence of a small group of dedicated individuals obsessed with the idea of creating a new American architecture, an architecture appropriate to the American Midwest and independent of historical styles.
		Among the Chicago-area homes designed during these years are the Frederick C. Robie house in Hyde Park and the Laura Gale, Peter A. Beachy, and Frank W. Thomas houses in Oak Park.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/63.html (1197 words)

	www.glessnerhouse.org : about historic district
		In the late 19th-century, the Prairie Avenue neighborhood was widely recognized as the city's most elegant address and the Prairie Avenue Historic District now stands as testimony to this glorious residential past.
		Prairie Avenue was hailed as the city's residential neighborhood of choice when entrepreneurs George Pullman and Marshall Field chose the street as the location for their new homes.
		Even during Prairie Avenue's peak in the 1890s, soot, vibration, and noise from expanding commuter and freight railway lines annoyed residents, and commercial activity from the nearby Loop pushed southward toward Prairie Avenue.
	www.glessnerhouse.org /district.html (804 words)

	Critical Acclaim for Prairie Crossing
		Prairie Crossing has been nationally recognized in the press as one of the nation's leading conservation communities and for its innovations in planning and community design.
		Geese use the wetlands as a flyaway, she notes proudly, and at night coyotes can be heard baying at the moonIn Prairie Crossing, as the community is known, the environment is king.
		Prairie Crossing may indeed provide a national and regional model urban development shaping the commissions of Midwestern planners and designers for years to come.
	www.prairiecrossing.com /pc/site/press-links.html (942 words)

	The Houses of Frank Lloyd Wright
		1910 illustration by the architect of a "prairie house"
		Wright's houses are known for being long, horizontal, and usually one story tall -- in other words, fairly flat.
		They are called "prairie" houses, after the flat expanses of land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/writers/wright/houses_2 (107 words)

	The Prairie Style house, 1900-1920 - Oldhouseweb.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Houses, Wright believed, had to be an integration of structural and aesthetic beauty and above all a sensitivity to human life.
		The Boynton House, in Rochester, NY is a well-preserved example of a typical Wright house.
		This is the Hagan House interior in Kentucky Knob, PA.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/12457.shtml (824 words)

	HomeIssues.com - Prairie Style Home
		The Prairie Style home is considered America’s first native born architecture, according to Kevin Moran, A.I.A., who has become an authority on the subject since he and his wife Jenette bought their Prairie home 21 years ago.
		Originally, Prairie design began around 1897 in Chicago with the teachings of Louis Sullivan followed by Frank Lloyd Wright, leading a group of architects, to draft horizontal-line homes suited especially to the Midwest landscape.
		Prairie Style houses were also built in the Park Cities.
	www.homeissues.com /viewarticle.cgi?article=60&category=2 (1279 words)

	Oklahoma Prairie Country
		When the pioneers moved to the prairies of the west many were faced with a housing dilemma.
		Common materials used for roofs were poles of cedar or cottonwood, rafters of willow, cedar, or other wood, brush from wild plum and chokecherry, prairie grass atop the brush and sod over the prairie grass.
		It was common for the woman of the house to have a canopy over the cook stove to prevent the above from falling into the stew.
	www.okprairie.com /Prairie.htm (605 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright - Illinois (All-Wright Site Building Guide)
		Also a bootleg house, this house uses the same basic "T" plan and resembles the Gale house described in the following entry, and also the Parker house which is located close to the Gale house.
		This house was planned as a mirror image of the Hickox house described in the previous entry.
		The construction of this two-story Prairie house (one of seven built in Glencoe in 1915) was not supervised by Wright, and there were many deviations from his original construction plan.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/1469/flw_il.html (1985 words)

	PBS ONLINE: DEATH OF THE DREAM
		Some of the earliest pioneers to the treeless prairie built houses out of the building blocks most readily available to them, meaning the sod they farmed on.
		These grass abodes were cool in summer, and kept the wind out in the cold winter; but snakes and mice liked the atmosphere, too, and the ceilings tended to cave in when wet.
		Just as the wheat farms were beginning to boom on the prairie, the great white pine forests of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota were being sawed at a frantic rate.
	www.pbs.org /ktca/farmhouses/homes_trees.html (183 words)

	Prairie Style in Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The sterotypical image of the Midwest prairie is that of a wide, flat, horizontal, treeless expanse that meets the horizon.
		Both Prairie and Craftsman/Arts and Crafts (a one- or one-and-a-half-story is a Bungalow) have widely overhanging eaves, but the Prairie style does NOT have exposed rafter tails or decorative beams or braces under the gables
		Wright himself claimed that the interior of the prairie house held the greatest significance.
	ah.bfn.org /a/archsty/a-c/prair/index.html (552 words)

	Styles - Prairie
		Frank Lloyd Wright was the master and leader of the movement that sought to stress the beauty of Midwestern prairie in which the majority of the houses were built.
		The typical Prairie houses are of two stories, some of three.
		The Prairie style exercised its greatest influence in the Chicago area, where many houses on this style were built in Oak Park and other suburban areas.
	www.si.umich.edu /umarch/styles/prairie.html (318 words)

	Laura Ingalls Wilder at the Hoover Library-Museum--Teaching Unit-Pioneer Life with Laura
		Many of the states in which the Ingalls family lived are located in the Midwest Region of the United States and this unit may be taught as part of a larger social studies unit focusing on that region or as part of a study of the Westward Movement.
		Ask the students to compare houses that pioneers might build in prairie states such as Kansas and Nebraska and in eastern woodland states such as Wisconsin and Michigan.
		Show photographs and drawings of all the houses the Ingalls family lived in and discuss the changes in housing that took place from the time of the Native Americans, to early settlers and the development of towns and farms.
	hoover.archives.gov /LIW/liwedu/liw_teaching_unit.html (2942 words)

	Prairie Home Plans
		The Prairie house was deliberate and composed, conceived as a practical, cohesive whole down to the landscaping, built-in furniture and fixtures.
		Prairie houses have broad, gently sloping, sheltering roofs with prominent low chimneys and patterned leaded-glass windows.
		Balconies and terraces extend in several directions beyond the basic house, creating protected outdoor spaced and rhythms of vertical and horizontal planes.
	www.distinctivehouseplans.com /featured.php?style=21 (119 words)

	Wright on the Web: The Thirties
		Modest in size, the Willey House was low and L-shaped with little ornamentation and represented a revolutionary change in domestic planning; i.e., the living room and dining room were completely unified in a single space, and the kitchen ("workspace") was only separated from the living area by a range of shelves.
		This house is said to be the "bridge" between the prairie houses and the Usonian houses, the first of which was erected in 1937 near Madison, Wisconsin.
		Combining features of the prairie houses and the California concrete block houses, Fallingwater has been described as "the apotheosis of the horizontal." Its cantilevered terraces soar dramatically over a natural waterfall, and the interior of the house blends seamlessly into the surrounding woods.
	www.delmars.com /wright/flw5.htm (681 words)

	Amazon.ca: Prairie Style: Houses & Gardens by F.L. Wright: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Created and championed by Wright and his colleagues, the Prairie Style is firmly rooted in the domestic architecture of the American Midwest, and its influence has spread throughout the country and the world.
		Prairie Style opens the doors to 24 homes, ushering readers into beautifully restored and creatively furnished spaces that radiate the warmth so closely associated with Wright and the Prairie School of architects.
		Many of the prairie homes are somewhat unremarkable from the outside, while inside they have a distict beauty and grace.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1556709315 (755 words)

	Prairie Light Screens Prairie Style Architecture Prairie Style Window Prairie Style Stained Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The movement became known as the Prairie School, and although Frank Lloyd Wright emerged as its leader, he was only one of about twenty idealistic young architects who rewrote the rules of domestic architecture.
		A dazzling array of art glass and Prairie Style Stained Glass, graced nearly all Prairie houses, embellishing cabinets, French doors, skylights.
		Prairie Style Windows of Prairie Style art glass, or "Light Screens" as they were called by Wright, largely disappeared from American architecture after about 1925.
	www.prairielightscreens.com (211 words)

	Prairie-Style Houses House Plans from Planshouse.com
		The handsome Prairie style of this home will have all the neighbors talking.
		See all plans of this style and size range in our extended database of 11,500+ house plans, sorted small to large.
		Victorian house plans and more of our favorite blueprints.
	www.planshouse.com /houseplans/Prairie-Style_Houses (353 words)

	Historic Preservation and Archaeology
		Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) was the most renowned figure of the Prairie School.
		Wright called for houses that fit into the landscape, built from materials of the local landscape.
		The Prairie Style was used mainly for houses.
	www.in.gov /dnr/historic/prairie.html (156 words)

	Wisniewski On Wright - Archive - The Fine Houses on Harrison Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Bradley house is located at the waters edge and the Hickox house is next door to the north.
		The Bradley house, the larger of the two, was completed first; thus, technically becoming the first Prairie House in the world.
		The house, called the Usonian Exhibition house was built in 1953, as part of an exhibition titled, "60 Years of Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright." The house stood on the site of the now famous Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
	www.davidalanbadger.com /wisniewskionwright/index1.htm (1027 words)

	HUX 550 - Key Individuals, Art: Frank Lloyd Wright
		Wright always denied the influence of Japanese architecture upon his work for some unknown reason, but many of the early "prairie houses" manifest this influence too clearly for the architect's denial to be believed.
		Good examples of these "Japanese prairie houses" are the Hickox house of 1900 and the Bradley house, also of 1900, both in Kankakee, Illinois.
		In these houses, not only the overhanging roofs, grid patterns of dark beams, and white plaster panels are reminiscent of Japanese construction, but also their markedly horizontal orientation and modular organization are characteristic of Japanese buildings.
	www.csudh.edu /hux/syllabi/550/4-2.html (615 words)

	USA WEEKEND Magazine
		Instead, Wright boldly put the house on top of the waterfall, integrating the feature of the landscape his clients loved above all others into the house itself so the sound of the waterfall always would be present.
		The Robie House, with its Wright- designed furnishings,is perhaps the finest of all his Prairie Houses.
		Above all, Wright wanted his house to be an ad for himself, a perfect example of what he called "organic architecture," meaning a building should express the essence of the landscape around it.
	www.usaweekend.com /98_issues/981108/981108wright2.html (1112 words)

	Historic District Commission, City of Detroit, Michigan
		The Prairie School houses with their Neo-Georgian and Chicago School Vernacular spin-offs and the ubiquitous Bungalow Style, all more or less partake of the same color theory as the post-1900 English Revival houses.
		Those Neo-Georgian Vernacular houses that are touched by the Prairie Style (low hip roofs with side overhanging eaves, ribbon windows, a change of materials from the first to the second floors) should not be painted with the Colonial color palette as their name might suggest.
		For houses of this type, one Detroit manufacturer suggested that "green is by far the most popular color for shutters, though in many instances they are painted to correspond to the body or trimmings of the house." Sash is "usually painted fl, white, ivy green or deep rich colors such as copper browns....
	www.ci.detroit.mi.us /historic/colorguide/color_e.htm (523 words)

	All-Wright Site - a Frank Lloyd Wright Internet Guide
		Frank Lloyd Wright expoused "organic architecture" and is responsible for the Prairie and Usonian residential styles.
		Wright was born in Wisconsin, and he lived most of his life there, also spending some time living in New York City, Germany, Japan, Oak Park (Illinois), and the winter location of his school in Arizona.
		He contributed the Prairie and Usonian houses to the vernacular of American residential design, and elements of his designs can be found (at least to some small degree) in a large proportion of homes today.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/1469/flw.html (892 words)

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