The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a historic house museum in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. It was built in 1889 by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who lived there with his family for two decades and expanded it multiple times.

The Home and Studio was the birthplace of Wright's vision for a new American architecture. Wright designed over 150 projects in his Oak Park Studio, establishing his legacy as a great and visionary architect.

Combine a guided tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio with an outdoor self-guided audio walking tour of the surrounding Historic District. See the famed homes that were designed in Wright's studio.

For many architecture buffs, the very first stop on a trip to Oak Park, Illinois, is the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, the architect’s primary residence from 1889 until 1909.

Wright designed everything in the home from the lighting and mechanical systems to its furniture and decorative arts. It is, however, the playroom that best reveals Wright’s increasing embrace of simplicity.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio is located at 951 Chicago Avenue, in Oak Park, Illinois. The property is on the corner of Chicago Ave & Forest Ave. The studio faces the busier Chicago Ave and the house faces the more residential street of Forest Ave.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio is an early expression of the ideas that ultimately became the Prairie School—and the place where some of the most famous buildings in that style were designed. A MODEST FAMILY HOME

The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust operates public tours, programs, and events at major Wright sites, three of which are historic houses: Wright’s Home and Studio (1889/1898) in Oak Park, the Frederick C. Robie House (1908-10) in Chicago’s Hyde Park, and the Emil Bach House (1915) in Chicago’s Rogers Park.

Located in the aptly titled Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District, you can walk through the Wright family home and the studio in which Wright met clients, drafted designs and pioneered Prairie School architecture, a distinctly American style.

Feb 14, 2023 · Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio were the breeding grounds for a new modern American Architecture. Many ideas that shaped the profession came from this tiny home and studio on the outskirts of Chicago.