Prairie StylePrivate
William G. Fricke House
Oak Park, IllinoisCompleted 1902
About This Building
A three-story Prairie house — unusually vertical for Wright's typically horizontal style.
The William G. Fricke House is notable for its unusual verticality — three stories tall in a style that Wright typically expressed horizontally. The house shows Wright experimenting with the Prairie vocabulary in a more compact urban lot, stacking the program vertically while maintaining the characteristic horizontal banding and overhanging eaves. It is a private residence on Elizabeth Court in Oak Park.
Key Features
Unusually vertical Prairie house
Three stories
Elizabeth Court, Oak Park
National Register of Historic Places
William G. Fricke House, 1902
