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| Location: | Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1897[1] |
| Architect: | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Architectural style(s): | Queen Anne, Prairie style |
| Added to NRHP: | December 4, 1973 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 73000699 |
| Governing body: | Private owner |
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History
George Furbeck's father, Warren, purchased the future site of the George W. Furbeck House in 1892. Furbeck was working as an electrical contractor in Chicago at the time and maintained a residence with his parents. On April 9, 1897 the Oak Park Reporter announced that George Furbeck would be erecting a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home on the site his father had purchased five years earlier. Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8 1867 &ndash April 9 1959 was an American (of Welsh descent Architect, Interior designer, Writer, and educator who The site of the Furbeck home provided George Furbeck with easy access to the Oak Park Avenue train station and thus, to his office in Chicago. On June 29, 1897, two weeks after ground was broken on his new home, Furbeck married Sue Allin Harrington of Michigan. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Groundbreaking is a traditional Ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the first day of Construction for a Building or other project Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. The next day Warren Furbeck's deed for the site of the George Furbeck House was transferred to his son. The George Furbeck House was completed in late 1897 or early 1898[2]
The interior of the home has seen very little alteration and is mostly intact as Wright originally envisioned it. The exterior underwent significant alteration in 1920 when the enclosed brick front porch was built on the retaining wall that surrounded the original, smaller, open porch. A brick is a block of Ceramic material used in Masonry construction laid using mortar. A porch is a structure attached to a building forming a covered entrance to a vestibule or doorway A retaining wall is a structure that holds back Soil or rock from a Building, structure or area The third floor dormer was also extended as well. A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface [3]
Architecture
The house was designed at the beginning of Wright's three year period of experimentation that resulted in the fully mature Prairie house in the early 20th century with such projects as the Arthur Heurtley House and the Frank Thomas House, both in Oak Park. Prairie School was a late 19th and early 20th century architectural style most common to the Midwestern United States. The Arthur B Heurtley House is located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park Illinois, United States. The Frank W Thomas House is located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. [3] It combines elements from the traditional Queen Anne style and from Wright's own Prairie style, as such the home represents a transition by Wright toward early modern style.
The home's windows are wood with wooden frames and mostly casement style, most of the first floor windows are topped with plain gray limestone lintels. A casement window (or casement) is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more Hinges Casement windows typically are hinged at the side sometimes at For lintel as a decorative element see Lintel (architecture For beam as load-bearing member see beam Some of the casement windows feature original art glass with simple geometric designs. Glass art and Glass sculpture is the use of Glass as an artistic medium to produce Sculptures or two-dimensional Artworks Specific approaches [4] The art glass, which is one of Wright's earliest completely original designs of the type, features three vertical lines with simple colored borders. [5] When compared with the art glass on the Isidore Heller House, designed the same year, the Furbeck glass is uninteresting and may represent the start of Wright's glass border art work. [5] Beneath the first and second floor windows a continuous stone sill course wraps around the house. [4]
The front (east) elevation is framed by two octagonal towers and the entire structure is clad in a pink-colored brick. The building's hip roof features overhanging eaves, an element common to Prairie style architecture. A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of Roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls usually with a fairly gentle slope An eave is the edge of a Roof. Eaves usually project beyond the side of the building generally to provide weather protection Prairie School was a late 19th and early 20th century architectural style most common to the Midwestern United States. [4] The entire structure rests upon a stepped, limestone water table. Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 The main feature of the front facade, besides the octagonal towers, is the 20 ft (6. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit 10 m) X 20 ft, one-story sun porch projecting from the building. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A sunroom is a Structure which is constructed onto the side of a House, usually to allow enjoyment of the surrounding Landscape while being sheltered from The sun porch has a low-pitched hip roof with an eave that projects over the front door, which is centered on the porch and flanked by two pairs of casement windows. Above the sun porch, on the second floor, is a pair of art glass doors which open onto a balcony between the two octagonal towers. Glass art and Glass sculpture is the use of Glass as an artistic medium to produce Sculptures or two-dimensional Artworks Specific approaches Balcony (from Italian balcone, scaffold cf High German balcho, beam balk probably cognate with Persian term بالكانه [4]
Significance
The George Furbeck House is listed as a contributing property to the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District. In the law regulating Historic districts in the United States, a contributing property is any property structure or object which adds to the historical integrity The Frank Lloyd Wright/Prairie School of Architecture Historic District is a residential neighborhood in the Cook County Illinois village of Oak Park, United [6] The historic district was added to the U. S. National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. [7] On November 18, 2002 the Furbeck House was declared a local Oak Park Landmark by the Oak Park Village Board. Events 326 - The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. [8]
As part of Wright's transitional decade of the 1890s the Furbeck House is significant as the beginning of a three year period of experimentation by the architect which resulted in the first fully modern style residential buildings. An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction The George Furbeck House connects Wright's early period, which included geometric Queen Anne houses such as the Robert P. Parker House, with his fully mature Prairie style which resulted in early modern homes such as the Heurtley House. The Queen Anne Style is a style of architecture, furniture and decoration that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century manifesting itself in The Robert P Parker House is a house located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park Illinois, United States Prominent features reminiscent of Wright's early work includes the octagon towers; a shape he was exploring throughout his transitional decade. Regular octagons A regular octagon is an octagon whose sides are all the same length and whose internal angles are all the same size In Architecture, a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower Latin: turris, tower is a small Tower that The home's rectilinear massing, hip roof, casement windows and horizontal sill course all featured extensively in later Prairie style homes by Wright. A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of Roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls usually with a fairly gentle slope GlassWindowjpg|thumb|right|190px|A stained glass panel depicting Biblical scenes at a historic church in Scotland]] A window is an opening [9]
Notes
- ^ Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Guide Map, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.
- ^ Oak Park Landmark Nomination Form, pg. 4-5. Entire paragraph referenced.
- ^ a b "George W. Furbeck House," Oak Park Tourist, excerpted from: Sprague, Paul E. Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright & Prairie School Architecture in Oak Park Oak Park Bicentennial Commission of the American Revolution [and] Oak Park Landmarks Commission, Village of Oak Park: 1986, (ISBN 0961691506). Retrieved May 31, 2007. Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
- ^ a b c d Oak Park Landmark Nomination Form, pg. 6.
- ^ a b Heinz, Thomas A. Frank Lloyd Wright's Stained Glass & Lightscreens, (Google Books), Gibbs Smith, 2005, pg. Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans OCRs, and stores in its digital database 43, (ISBN 1586858432). Retrieved 9 June 2007. Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
- ^ "Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District," Property Information Report-District listing, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved 9 June 2007]. Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
- ^ National Register Information System, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service. Retrieved 9 June 2007. Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
- ^ "Oak Park Historic Landmarks," (PDF), Village of Oak Park, official website, 8 November 2006. Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a Celebration Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved 9 June 2007. Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
- ^ Oak Park Landmark Nomination Form, pg. 8. Entire paragraph referenced.
References
- "George W. Furbeck House," (PDF), Oak Park Landmark Nomination Form, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved 9 June 2007. Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
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