The William G. Fricke House is a home designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright at 540 Fair Oaks Avenue ^[1] in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Fricke commissioned the home in 1901 and it was finished the next year. Wright used elements in the building that would appear in his Prairie style homes: a high water table, horizontal banding, overhanging eaves, shallow hipped roofs, and an exterior with an expansive amount of stucco. ^[2] Wright usually emphasized the horizontal in his house designs, but the Fricke house is different by having a three-story tower.

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• Further reading
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The house has been owned since 2004 by Dawn and Ed McGee. ^[3]

See also

• List of Frank Lloyd Wright works

References

Further reading

• Cannon, Patrick F. (2006). Hometown Architect: The Complete Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois. Pomegranate. pp. 75–8. ISBN   978-0-7649-3746-0.
• Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks; Gossel, Peter; Wright, Frank Lloyd (2004). Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959: Building for Democracy. Taschen. p. 19. ISBN   978-3-8228-2757-4.
• Storrer, William Allin (1993). The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0-226-77624-8. OCLC   28676420. (S.058)

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• The Fricke House at the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust

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