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Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, adjacent to Chicago.It is the 26th-most populous municipality in Illinois, with a population of 54,318 as of the 2020 census.
The Frank Lloyd Wright/Prairie School of Architecture Historic District is a residential neighborhood in the Cook County, Illinois village of Oak Park, United States.The Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District is both a federally designated historic district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and a local historic district within the village of Oak Park.
The Ridgeland–Oak Park Historic District is a historic district in Oak Park, Illinois that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It includes 1558 contributing buildings over 539 acres (218 ha).
Located in Oak Park, Illinois, Frank Lloyd Wright was 22 years old when he purchased the property and built the home in 1889 with a $5,000 loan from his employer Louis Sullivan. [4] Wright had just married 18-year-old Catherine Tobin. The Wrights raised six children in the home. [4] The original 1889 structure was quite small.
The Robert P. Parker House is a house located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The house was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1892 and is an example of his early work. Real-estate agent Thomas H. Gale had it built and sold it to Robert P. Parker later that year.
Edwin H. Cheney House (1903) located in Oak Park, Illinois, United States, was Frank Lloyd Wright's design of this residence for electrical engineer Edwin Cheney. [2] The house is part of the Frank Lloyd Wright–Prairie School of Architecture Historic District. [3]
The Oak Park-River Forest War Memorial, known as Peace Triumphant, is a memorial to the veterans of World War I located at the top of the hill on the park's north end. The monument was erected in 1925 by citizens of Oak Park and neighboring River Forest , who donated the $52,573.63 needed to build the granite and bronze monument to community ...
The Arthur B. Heurtley House is located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The house was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1902. The Heurtley House is considered one of the earliest examples of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in full Prairie style. [3]