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Edwin Cheney
The Bootleg
6 7
Houses
House
This home sparked a Wright lost his job over
tragic love affair between these three private
Wright and Mamah com missions, built while
Cheney, leading him to he was employed by Louis
abandon his family and H. Sullivan (see p43).
practice. Mamah and her Though Queen Anne-like
children were murdered in style, they hint at the
at Wright’s home by an design elements that
insane servant in 1914. were to be his hallmarks.
Arthur
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Heurtley
House
Wright’s beautiful 1902
house (above) is abso lute
Prairie, with its low, wide
chimney, and band of
art-glass windows that
makes the overhanging
roof appear to float.
Nathan Moore
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House
Out of financial
despe ration, Wright built
this charming Tudor-style
home for his neighbor.
After a fire destroyed the
top floors in 1922,
Wright’s modifications
echoed his West Coast
concrete block houses.
NEED TO KNOW Oak Park Street Map
MAP A4 • ”L” Station: Oak Park
Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio: AUG US TA B LV D 0
951 Chicago Ave.; 312-994-4000; www. FOREST AV ENU E WOODBINE AVENUE KENILWORTH AVE G R O V E AV E N U E
gowright.org; open 10am–5pm daily I OWA S T
Unity Temple: 875 West Lake St. 7 C HIC AG O AVE N U E 3
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Pleasant Home: 217 South Home Ave. 8
9
Arthur Heurtley House: 318 Forest Ave. 1 EU CLID AVE ERIE ST 6
OAK PARK AV EN UE
ERIE ST
The Bootleg Houses: 1019/1027/1031 ONTARIO ST
Chicago Ave. 2 LA K E S T R EE T EAST AVE
Oak Park
Charles Matthews House: 432 North
Kenilworth Ave. 4 Oak Park
PLEASANT ST
Edwin Cheney House: 520 North East Ave.
GROVE AVE
EUCLID AVE
Beachy House: 238 Forest Ave. Harry Adams House
Nathan Moore House: 333 Forest Ave. 0
This striking 1913 home
Harry Adams House: 710 Augusta Blvd. marks the last of Wright’s Oak Park
• The Oak Park Visitors’ Center (1010 Lake houses and features several of the
St.) sells maps, books, and tour tickets. elements that made him famous,
such as exquisite stained glass,
and a low overhanging roof.
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