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My Famous House
Ever since I moved into my house in Hyde Park I have known it was designed by a well known architect. My house was part of an urban renewal project that occurred in the late l950's that demolished many buildings in Hyde Park, Chicago. All the neighbors who moved in at that time knew that I.M. Pei and Harry Weese and Associates were the architects for the Hyde Park Redevelopment Project. I have no reason to doubt this, but I can not find anything on the Internet that specifically designates my house as being one of the I. M. Pei houses although the University Gardens apartment building, across the street, is listed. I do own a plan that has the name I. M. Pei on it, however, so I know for a fact that my house is a famous house. I don't think I. M. Pei designed many other townhouses when he became very famous. My townhouse is a very simple, open floor plan house but the scale of the rooms is very nice and the way it is laid out makes a lot of sense. There is nothing very distinctive in it's appearance other than it looks like a 20th century house. This is important because many people building in the city are still building 19th century houses, or older. At least in appearance. Of course, I. M. Pei became an internationally renowned architect. Winner of the prestigious Pritzker prize and many other awards as well as designer of the addition to the Louvre Museum and the National Gallery in Washington, DC. My house has an association with another famous house in Hyde Park, Robie House. When I bought my house, Robie House was the headquarters and sales office of William Zeckendorf, Sr.'s company,Webb and Knapp,developers of the real estate plan in Hyde Park's urban renewal project. It was then that I had my first tour of Robie House. Robie House, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his client Frederick C. Robie, a bycicle manufacturer. It is considered to be an icon of American architecture. And, it is around the corner from my house. I walk by it daily and I am used to seeing it all of the time. But, last week a friend visited from Oklahoma and the first thing he wanted to see was Robie House. It was designed in Wright's Oak Park studio in 1908 and completed in 1910. The building has a series of horizontal lines and overhangs that became characteristic of Frank Lloyd Wright's style and changed the look of residential architecture in the United States. Wright designed all of the interior furniture and the stained glass windows. It has what was then very new, an open floor plan. This style became known as the Prairie style house. Robie House is an Historic National and Chicago Landmark and tours of the house are given daily by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. |
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Robie House photo by Julie Richman
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