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William G. Fricke House

Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
Place
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Construction
Year not established
Design / archive date
1901
Catalogue reference
FLWFA 0201 / S.058
William G. Fricke House — photograph 1
Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original photograph source

William G. Fricke House (1901) 540 Fair Oaks Ave Oak Park, IL 60302 Architect: Frank Lloyd wright

Architecture & history

The William G. Fricke House is a home designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright at 540 Fair Oaks Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Fricke commissioned the home in 1901 and it was finished the next year. Wright used elements in the building that would appear in his Prairie style homes: a high water table, horizontal banding, overhanging eaves, shallow hipped roofs, and an exterior with an expansive amount of stucco. Wright usually emphasized the horizontal in his house designs, but the Fricke house is different by having a three-story tower.

The house has been owned since 2004 by Dawn and Ed McGee.

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