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Walter H. Gale House

Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
Place
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Construction
1893
Design / archive date
1893
Catalogue reference
FLWFA 9302 / S.020
Walter H. Gale House — photograph 1
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Walter H. Gale House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1893. National Register of Historic Places.

Walter H. Gale House — photograph 2
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Walter H. Gale House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1893. National Register of Historic Places.

Architecture & history

The Walter H. Gale House is a house in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1893. The house was commissioned by Walter H. Gale of a prominent Oak Park family and is the first home Wright designed after leaving the firm of Adler & Sullivan (run by engineer Dankmar Adler and architect, Louis Sullivan). The Gale House was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on August 17, 1973.

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