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First floor plan for the Dana–Thomas House. The Dana–Thomas House (also known as the Susan Lawrence Dana House and Dana House) is a Prairie School–style home at 301 East Lawrence Avenue in Springfield, Illinois, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was built in 1902–1904 for the philanthropist Susan Lawrence Dana.
Susan Lawrence Dana (October 13, 1862 – February 20, 1946) was an American philanthropist and heiress to a substantial fortune, including silver mines in the Rocky Mountains. After her father died, Lawrence Dana took over his western mines and properties throughout central Illinois. She was also a leading philanthropic figure in Illinois.
The Lawrence Memorial Library in Springfield, Illinois, was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for client Susan Lawrence Dana in 1905. Wright had previously designed Dana's Springfield residence, now known as the Dana–Thomas House, in 1902. Dana commissioned the library for the West Room of the Rheuna D. Lawrence School. [1]
Susan Lawrence Dana House. July 30, 1974 301 Lawrence Ave. ... Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals-Springfield Mine Rescue Station. July 5, 1985
Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois.Its population was 114,394 at the 2020 United States census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.
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A nurse since 1981, Dana Humes Goff and others fought for change in labor and delivery practices in central Illinois. After 42 years and nearly 3,000 births, Peoria's first certified nurse-midwife ...
The new house included doors, windows, stained glass and chandeliers from Lawrence's own home after she and her daughter Susan Lawrence Dana commissioned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to remodel their Victorian mansion on East Lawrence Avenue in Springfield, which some say was the highest commissioned job he had taken on at that point in his career.