Arthur Heurtley House

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The Arthur Heurtley House is a Prairie-style residence at 318 Forest Avenue in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1902, the Heurtley House is one of the earliest examples of a Wright-designed house in full Prairie style. Its decorative features, such as its horizontal design details, low roof, and pinwheel motifs, were reused in Wright's later Prairie-style works. The house is designated as a National Historic Landmark and is part of the Frank Lloyd Wright–Prairie School of Architecture Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places district. The house was constructed for the family of the banker Arthur Heurtley. In 1920, the house was purchased by Wright's sister Jane Porter and her husband Andrew, who lived there for 26 years. The house was split into two residences in the mid-20th century. It was resold in 1946 before the biology professor Jack Prost acquired it in the early 1970s. The Baehrend family...

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