Prairie StylePrivate
Isadore Heller House
Chicago, IllinoisCompleted 1897
About This Building
An early Chicago house with a distinctive frieze of sculpted figures by Richard Bock.
The Isadore Heller House is an early Chicago work notable for its three-story composition and the distinctive frieze of sculpted figures by Richard Bock that runs along the third floor. The house shows Wright moving away from the Victorian conventions of his early career toward the horizontal Prairie vocabulary, though the vertical stacking still reflects the constraints of a narrow urban lot. It is a private residence in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
Key Features
Richard Bock sculptural frieze
Early Chicago work
Transitional style
National Register of Historic Places
Isadore Heller House, 1897
