When entertaining out-of-town guests, you tend to do and see things you wouldn't normally do. Perk! This weekend, we drove my aunt and sister to Oak Park, Illinois to check out the Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District. We skipped the studio and walking tours for $15, and printed our own map we found online. It was really neat seeing the famous, post-modernist homes practically in my own backyard, a la "Prairie style", with its distinctive horizontal planes and low terraces. We must have seen at least 10 to 12 homes. (It was also funny seeing people with audio guide headphones wandering all around residential streets.)
Here are some uh-MAZ-ing pix from our self-guided walking tour over the weekend of FLW-designed homes:
{ Frank's home and studio, 1889-1909 }
{ Not pictured – The homes of Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Rice Burroughs (author of Tarzan). Who knew Oak Park was home to so many famous people?? }
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