Burton J. Westcott House

The Burton J. Westcott House (1908) at 1340 High Street in Springfield, Ohio is the only Prairie Style house Frank Lloyd Wright designed in the state. Westcott was a successful manufacturer, and Wright gave him a fully resolved Prairie composition: a strong horizontal silhouette, broad overhanging eaves, Roman brick, and art-glass windows throughout. The house fell into severe neglect after the mid-20th century and was nearly lost — at one point it was used as a rooming house and suffered significant damage. A community-led preservation effort rescued it, and a complete restoration was completed in 2005, returning the house to its original 1908 appearance. It is now a National Historic Landmark open for guided tours. Rick McNees photographed the house extensively for the Wright-Site archive.