Tag: frank lloyd wright
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American Foursquare Houses in Oak Park Real Estate
Influenced by the Prairie Style, builders constructed American Foursquare houses in Oak Park in the twentieth century. These houses have roomy interiors and share many features with the Prairie style homes. They can be found in all the Oak Park neighborhoods. Often they have been dressed up by borrowing elements from Queen Anne, Mission, or…
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Craftsman Homes in Oak Park Real Estate
When the arts and crafts movement hit the Midwest in the late nineteenth century, it dramatically influenced architecture, interior design, and home furnishings. Elements of the original arts and crafts ideal surface in Oak Park property in its neighborhood houses, and in contemporary arts and crafts designers, restorers, and antique arts and crafts dealers. Craftsman…
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Gunderson Houses In Oak Park Real Estate
When the Gunderson Brothers built houses in Oak Park more than one hundred years ago, they had families in mind: lots of spacious bedrooms and dining and living spaces for get-togethers and gatherings. The Gundersons wanted the best quality and hired an architect, Frank Osborn De Money to design the homes. They even brought craftsmen…
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Prairie Style Homes In Oak Park Real Estate
One of America’s greatest architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, began designing homes in Oak Park in 1889. Radically new in conception, the Prairie Style Homes designed by Wright featured low horizontal lines, open floor plans, and clerestory windows; they fit the landscape and the exterior brick and stucco in earth tones were a dramatic contrast to…
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Victorian Houses In Oak Park
Victorian Houses In the Oak Park Real Estate Market Famous for being the birthplace of writers Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Rice Burroughs (“Tarzan” novels), Oak Park, established in 1848, grew up as a village in the Victorian period and its graceful, tree-lined streets have Victorian houses galore. These “painted ladies” feature spacious wrap-around porches, arches,…
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Oak Park Real Estate Market
The Oak Park real estate market on some level is an extension of the Chicago Real Estate market and currently has many interesting opportunities available both for home owners and investment property. Chicago’s urban tree-canopied suburb of Oak Park offers families and singles an array of comfortable Prairie four-squares, painted Victorians and townhouses & condominium…