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Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses
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Taliesin and Taliesin West
Riverside, Illinois 1907 (A US National Historic Landmark)
Avery Coonley House
To quote Mrs. Coonley when asked by Mr. Wright why he had been selected as their Architect, her reply only needed four words (The Countenances of Principle). Mr. Wright considered the coonley complex in riverside, Illinois to be the most successful of his prairie houses.
Coonley House Commentary;
"The Coonley residence provides the first example in Wright's work
of the zoned plan. Living quarters are raised, in typical Prairie
fashion, and a pavilion links various spaces. Inlaid tiles form a
geometrical pattern in the frieze on the plaster-surfaced,
wood-trimmed house. Published plans...include the cottage and coach
house, originally a stable, so their design date might also be set
at 1907, but construction was well after the 1909 completion of the
main residential structure. The entire project has been somewhat
altered, the residence being converted into three separate
apartments. The coach house and contiguous sunken gardens are now a
separate plot."
—William Allin Storrer. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A
Complete Catalog. project 135.
The Creator's Words;
"In breadth, length, height and weight, these buildings belonged
to the prairie just as the human being himself belonged to it with
his gift of speed. The term 'streamlined' as my own expression was
then and there born. As a result, the new buildings were rational:
low, swift, and clean, and were studiously adapted to machine
methods."
—Frank Lloyd Wright. from Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland,
ed. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas. p35.
The House is located at 300 Scottswood Roador Bloomingbank Road
Riverside, Illinois 60546, the Main wing, 281 Bloomingbank. Bedroom
wing, 300 Scottswood Road. Coach house, 336 Coonley Road. Playhouse,
350 Fairbank Road.