Wright Plus 2016 Housewalk Offers Peek into Private FLW-Designed Homes

By FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST

Wright Plus is an internationally renowned Great American Housewalk.

The theme for Wright Plus 2016 is Wright and the Prairie School, featuring private homes and public buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the architects and designers who worked in Wright’s Oak Park Studio and went on to become luminaries of the Prairie School of architecture.

A Wright Plus ticket also includes entry to landmark Wright buildings. Celebrate architecture, design, Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative vision and the talents of his fellow architects in historic Oak Park and River Forest.

Featured residences include:

• Harry S. Adams House (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1913) - This classic Prairie house was Frank Lloyd Wright’s final Oak Park commission.

• Thomas Gale House (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1892) - An early Wright bootleg house distills Queen Anne design elements to their essential geometry.

• Louisa and Harry Goodrich House (Wright, 1896) - Wright’s take on the popular Queen Anne style, meticulously restored and showcasing a new conservatory addition.

• William E. Drummond House (William E. Drummond, 1910) - The personal residence of Frank Lloyd Wright’s key associate, inspired by Wright’s Fireproof House.

• Mary Greenless Yerkes House (John S. Van Bergen, 1912) - A creative interpretation of Wright’s Fireproof House features original fixtures and built-ins.

• River Forest Women’s Club (Drummond and Guenzel, 1913) - Former Women’s Club by Wright’s chief draftsman, innovatively transformed to residential use.

• Charles J. Barr House (William E. Drummond & Louis Guenzel, 1912) - Distinctly Prairie style, with an efficient floor plan highlighted by a grand central fireplace.

• Telfer MacArthur House (White and Bertram A. Weber, 1928) - A beautifully appointed Tudor Revival home with a dramatic two-story addition.

Also on the Wright Plus tour is the place where Wright’s innovative Prairie homes were conceived: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio, the oldest Wright building open as a public museum. Another public site on the Housewalk – Frederick C. Robie House – was designed in Wright’s Oak Park studio.

Tickets are now available for the 42nd annual Wright Plus Housewalk, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., May 21, 2016. Tickets are $110 and $95 for members of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. For more information, visit flwright.org.