From ArtNet:
The house that launched Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural career is on the market for $1.98 million. In 1893, shortly after leaving the firm Adler & Sullivan, Wright was commissioned to build the Winslow House, in the Chicago suburb of River Forest. Although Wright had surreptitiously completed several projects around the city while employed at Adler & Sullivan—so-called bootleg houses including Parker House and Thomas Gale House in Oak Park—Winslow House was his first as an independent architect.
Wright, then 26, considered the 5,000-square-foot, two-story home the first of his Prairie School buildings. Indeed, there are numerous elements he would reuse and expand upon throughout his career. The low-pitched roof with deep eaves recalls the vast horizon of the open plain, the door is slightly sunken, and the home is symmetrical divided horizontally between slate and golden Roman brick. (Read more.)
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