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10-300
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10-74)
UNITED
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DEPARTMENT
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THE
INTERIOR
NATIONAL
PARK
SERVICE
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REGISTER
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[NAME
HISTORIC
Robie
House
AND/OR
COMMON
Robie
House
LOCATION
STREET&
NUMBER
5757
South
Woodlawn
Avenue
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FOR
PUBLICATION
CITY.
TOWN
Chicago
—
STATE
Illinois
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CATEGORY
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AGRICULTURE
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X-EDUCATIONAL
—PRIVATE
RESIDENCE
—ENTERTAINMENT
—RELIGIOUS
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GOVERNMENT
—SCIENTIFIC
—INDUSTRIAL
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MILITARY
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OWNER
OF
PROPERTY
NAME
University
of
Chicago
(Office
of
Special
Events,
Administration
Building)
STREET
&
NUMBER
5801
Ellis
Avenue
CITY.
TOWN
Chicago
VICINITY
OF
STATE
Illinois
COURTHOUSE,
REGISTRY
OF
DEEDS,
ETC.
Cook
County Recorder
and
Registrar
of
Titles
STREETS
NUMBER
118
North
Clark
Street
CITY,
TOWN
Chicago
STATE
Illinois
REPRESENTATION IN
EXISTING
SURVEYS
TITLE
Historic
American
Buildings
Survey
(ILL-1005)
DATE
1963
and
1967
X-FEDERAL
—STATE
—COUNTY
—LOCAL
DEPOSITORY
FOR
SURVEY
RECORDS
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and
Photographs,
Library
of
Congress
CITY,
TOWN
Washington
STATE
D.C.
DESCRIPTION
CONDITION
—EXCELLENT
X-GOOD
_FAIR
—DETERIORATED
—RUINS
_UNEXPOSED
CHECK
ONE
—UNALTERED
X.ALTERED
CHECK
ONE
X.ORIGINALSITE
_MOVED
DATE_
DESCRIBETHE
PRESENT
AND
ORIGINAL
(IF
KNOWN)
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
The
Robie
House
has
been
called
Wright
f
s
strongest
statement
in
domestic
design.
Its
free-floving
interior
spaces,
overhanging
roofs
to
shade
-windows
and balconies,
indoor
recreation
spaces,
and
strong
horizontal
lines
forecast
trends
in
house
design
during
the
following
50
years.
As
sculpture
it
can
be
considered
an
abstraction
in
lines
and
planes.
Pictorially
the
tawn
brick
and
dove-colored
concrete
trim
are
pleasing
to
the
eye.
The
entrance
has
been
awarded
a
minor
role
and
treatment
of
the
chimney
stack
lends
drama.
Inside
the
sensations
of
security
and
privacy
are
enhanced
by
elevating
the
principal
rooms
one
story
above
a
raised
basement.
The
garage
was
another
novel
feature
of
this
house
and
probably
for
the
first
time
in
American
architecture,
it
became
an
integral
part of
the
whole.
The
Commission
on
Chicago
Architectural
Landmarks
declared Robie
House
a
landmark,
"In
recognition
of the
creation
of
the
Prairie
House—a
home
organized
around
the great
hearth
where
interior
space,
under
wide
sweeping
roofs,
opens
to
the
outdoors."
The
asymmetrically
planned
house,
with
overall
dimensions
of
15^-9"
"by
60'-0",
fits
very
exactly
on
the
original
200'
by
60'
lot.
The
exterior
walls
are
of
large
reddish-
orange
brick which
were made
in
St.
Louis,
and
the Capstones,
lintels,
sills,
water
table
and
other
trim
are
of
light
grey
stone.
The
several
red
clay tile
roofs
are
hipped
with
a
low
pitch
and
deep
overhanging
eaves.
Although
a
number of
windows
have
been
re-glazed
with
clear
glass,
the
newly
built
Robie
House
had
windows
with
one
geometric
pattern
of
colored
glass
repeated
in
every
window
in
the
house.
The
wall
around
the
courtyard
originally
was
several
feet
higher,
but
later
owners
reduced
the
height
of
the
wall
in
order
to
obtain
matching
bricks
to
use
to
add
a
storage
room
east
of
the
garage.
The
floor
plan,
with
alterations
of
the
Wright
plan
noted,
can
be seen on
the
enclosed
HABS
drawings.
Wright
also
designed
much
of
the
furniture,
which
was
made
by
George
Niederken
of
Milwaukee,
as
well
as
a
hand-woven
rug
made
in
Austria.
The
furniture
and
all
the
woodwork
were
oak,
with
a
"golden
oak"
finish.
The
furniture,
some
of
which
was
built-
in,
was
related
in
style
to
what
was
called
the
mission
style
in
the
United
States
and
some
of
it
still
exists,
in
storage.
Wright
himself
described
the
house
as:
As
type
of
structure
especially
suited
to
the
prairie will
be
found
in
Robie
House,
which
is
virtually
a
one-floor
arrangement,
raised
a
low
story
height
above
the
level
of
the
ground.
Sleeping
rooms
are
added
where
necessary
in
another
story.
There
is
no
excavation
for
this
type,
except
for
heating
purposes.
The
ground
floor
provides
billiard
rooms
or
playrooms
for
children.
This
plan
raised
the
living
room
well
off
the
ground,
which
is
often
dam,
and
avoids
the
ordinary
damp
basement.
(Robie
House
was
built
on
land
formerly
a
swamp.)
Wright,
in
his
Princeton
lectures,
Modern
Architecture,
said
that
Robie
House embodies
these
ideas:
0.
Rejection
of
the
high,
jumbled
house
of
the
time,
with
hot attic,
damp
basement.
HI
SIGNIFICANCE
PERIOD
—PREHISTORIC
_1400-1499
—1500-1599
—
1600-1699
—
1700-1799
—1800-1899
—J5900-
AREAS
OF
SIGNIFICANCE
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AND
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_ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC
_ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC
_AGRICULTURE
2LARCHITECTURE
_ART
_COMMERCE
—COMMUNICATIONS
—COMMUNITY
PLANNING
—CONSERVATION
—ECONOMICS
—EDUCATION
—ENGINEERING
—EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT
—INDUSTRY
_INVENTION
—LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE
—LAW
—LITERATURE
—MILITARY
—MUSIC
—PHILOSOPHY
—POLITICS/GOVERNMENT
—RELIGION
—SCIENCE
—SCULPTURE
—SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN
—THEATER
—TRANSPORTATION
—OTHER
(SPECIFY)
B.B.Barnard
Company,
builder
SPECIFIC
DATES
1907-1909
(construction)
BUILDER/ARCHITECT
Frank
Lloyd
Wright,
architect
STATEMENT
OF
SIGNIFICANCE
The
Robie
House
was
designed
and
constructed
(1907-1909)
"by
Frank
Lloyd
Wright,
for
Frederick
Carleton
Robie. One
of
the
finest
representative
examples
of
the
mature
work
of this famous
architect,
it
has
"been
designated
as
an
official
landmark
"by
the
Commission
on
Chicago
Architectural
Landmarks.
In
1957
5
a
panel
of
leading
architects
and
art
historians
cited
the
Robie
House
as
one
of
the
two
outstanding
residences
built
in
the
United
States
in
the
preceding
SO
years.
This
clean-cut
brick
structure,
which
Wright
developed
in
his
inimitable
"prairie
style"
to
fit
the
confines
of
a
city
lot,
has
won
international
acclaim
as
a
recognized
turning
point
in
modern
domestic
architecture.
House
and
Home
Magazine
featured
"One
Hundred
Years
of
American
Homes",
in
its
May, 1957
issue,
timed
to
observe
the
centennial
of
the
American
Institute
of
Architects.
Succinct-
ly
expressed,
Robie
House
was the
House
of
the
Century.
"Since
1857
no
house
has
had
more
influence,"
was
the
unqualified
appraisal
of this
respected
publication.
It
.is
a
hard
task
to
summarize
the
significance
of
Robie
House
and
its
real
impact
on
our
cultural life
today,
yet
House
and
Home
accomplished
this
feat
with
notable
success
and
with
brevity
that invites
quotation:
No
House
in
America
during
the
past
hundred
years
matches
the
importance
of
Frank
Lloyd
Wright's
Robie
House.
Above
all
else,
the
Robie
house
is
a
magnificant
work
of
art.
But,
in
addition,
the
house
introduced
so
many
concepts
in
planning
construction
that
its
full
influence
cannot
be
measured
accurately
for
many
years
to
come.
Without
this
house,
much
of
modern
architecture
as
we
know
it
today
might
not
exist.
Here,
in
one
house
designed
50
years
ago,
Wright
demonstrated
such
diverse
ideas
as
to
open
plan;
the
combination
of
windows
in
continuous
strips;
the
projection
of
the
roof
soffit
in
deep
cantilevers
far
out
beyond
the
glass;
the use
of
continuous
inside-to-outside
walls
to
join
the
house
to
its
garden;
the
effectiveness
of
a
low
slung
roof
to
make
the
house
seem
more
in
repose;
and
the
importance,
for
the
same
reasons,
of
horizon-
tal
ity
throughout.
Similarly
the
Architectural Record
during
1956
and
1957
ran
a
special feature,
"One
Hundred
Years
of
Significant
Buildings."
Again
the
Robie
House
(February,
1957)
won
highest honors
in
rating
by
the
Record's
professional
panel on
the
most
significant
buildings
built
in
America
during the
past
fifty
years.
A
critical
commentary
by
IMAJOR
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
REFERENCES
American
Institute
of
Architects,
Journal,
August,
1963.
Andrews,
Wayne,
Architecture,
Ambition
and
Americans,
New
York,
Harper
and
Brothers,
1955
Architectural
Forum,
April
1957.
Drexler,
Arthur,
The
Drawings
of
Frank Lloyd
Wright
,
New
York,
Horizon
Press
for
the
Museum
of
Modern
Art,
1962.
HGEOGRAPHICAL
DATA
ACREAGE
OF
NOMINATED
PROPERTY
less
than
one
acre
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DESCRIPTION
Robie
House
was
"built
on
a
60
by
210
foot
city
lot
and the
overall
dimensions
of
the
house
are
15U'-9"
by
60
!
-0."
As seen
on
the
enclosed
HABS
location
plan,
the
boundary
of
the
national historic
landmark
which
is
immediately surrounded
by
residences
and
office
buildings,
is
the
dimensions
of
the
property
owned
by
the
University
of
Chicago,
described
as:
Lot
16,
and
the
south
10
feet
of
lot
17,
Block
71
of
Gray
and Gaylord's
subdivision
of
Block
71
and
west
half
of
62.
(cont'd)
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Review
Project;
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EVALUATED
SIGNIFICANCE
OF
THIS
PROPERTY
WITHIN
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IS:
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As
the
designated
State
Historic
Preservation
Officer
for
the National
Historic
Preservation
Act
of
1966
(Public
Law
89-665),
I
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hereby
nominate
this
property
for
inclusion
in
the
National
Register
and
certify
that
it
has
been
evaluated
according
to
the
^
H
P3
criteria
and
procedures
set
forth
by
the
National
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INTERIOR
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Robie
House
ITEM
NUMBER
#7
PAGE
2
1.
Starting
the
house
at
ground
level,
marked
by
a
simple
water-table.
2.
Placing
the
living
area,
then,
at
an
upper
level,
for
view
and
air.
3.
Keeping
the
house
low,
horizontally
extended
(association
with
the
prairie).
k.
Conceiving
the
walls
as
screens,
emphasizing
this
by
bands
of
windows
in
the second
story.
5.
Roofs
of gentle
slope,
and
with
broad
expansion
beyond
the
walls
(sense
of
shelter;
echo
of
the
prairie).
6.
A
broad
fireplace
(and
low,
broad
chimney
on
the
exterior),
as
center
or
focus
of
the
design
(associated
ideas
of
warmth,
domesticity).
7.
Free-flowing
living
area,
avoiding
boxlike
rooms.
8.
Plasticity
(connectedness)
achieved
by:
A.
Surface
of
ceiling
carried
down
the
walls
to
window
tops,
so
that
walls
and
ceiling
"flow
together";
B.
Wood trim
continuously
flowing
at
top
of
windows
and
doors,
and
at
the
floor,
and
these
connected
by
thin
vertical
bands;
and
C.
Other
ways
"too
tedious
to
describe
in
words."
9.
Outswinging
windows,
to
associate
the
house,
by
this
gesture,
with
the
outdoors.
10.
Heating
and
lighting
integrated
as
architectural
features.
11.
Furnishings
to
be
designed
with
the
architecture,
if
possible.
Form
No.
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(Rev.
10-74)
UNITED
STATES
DEPARTMENT
OF
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INTERIOR
NATIONAL
PARK
SERVICE
NATIONAL
REGISTER
OF
HISTORIC
PLACES
INVENTORY
--
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SHEET
Robie
House_____ITEM
NUMBER
#8
PAGE
2_____________________
Alan
Burnham,
A.I.A.,
merits
quoting:
The
RoMe
house
created
at
the
domestic
level
something
new
to
the
eyes
of
1909
Chicago,
supplanting
the
symmetrical
classicism
of the day
by
an
asymmetrical
monumentality.
In
the
structurally
expressive
use of
piers,
vail
planes,
and
strips
of
windows
all
clustered
about
a
central
chimney,
one
senses
an
unusual
coherence
of
planning.
Visually
this
produced
a
bold
interplay
of
forms
with
strong
horizontals
at
different
levels,
originating
in
but
leading
away
from
the
dominant
vertical.
The
fenestration
represented
a
radically
new
concept,
with
its
almost
con-
tinuous
light source
interrupted
only
by
structural
piers
and
amply
shaded
by wide
eaves;
the
logical
outgrowth
of
a
harsher
climate
to
which
the
conventional
New
England
window
had
never
been properly
suited.
One
senses
Wright
f
s
complete
mastery
of
the
house
of
that
low-lying
horizontal
type
of
dwelling
which
he
had
originated
and
named
the
"Prairie
House."
Robie
House
was
designed
and
constructed
by
Frank
Lloyd
Wright, 1907-1909,
for
Frederick
Carleton
Robie,
a
native
Chicagoan
who
had
made
his
fortune
in
bicycles
and
sewing
machines.
Robie
is
reported
to
have told
Wright,
"I
want
a
fireproof,
reasonably
priced
house
to
live
in
not
a
conglomeration
of
doodads."
The
costs
fell
within
the
framework
of reasonableness
set
by
the
client—for
the
lot he
had
paid
$1^,000;
the
house
was
estimated
at
$35,000,
with
$10,000
more
for
furniture
either
designed
or
selected
by
the
architect.
The
plans
were
a
sweeping
departure
from
the
traditional
four
square
approach
of
Living
Room,
Parlor,
Dining
Room,
and
Kitchen.
Robie
House
polarized
fresh
architectural
concepts
which
"saved
us
twenty
years,"
according
to
Mies
Van
der
Rohe, the
famous
German
architect
and
teacher.
There
is
every
reason
to
believe
that the
Robies
cherished
their
home,
which
conferred
international
fame
on
them
as
patrons
of
architecture.
When
they disposed
of
it
after
some
years
of
residence,
it
was
to
an
appreciative
owner
in
the
person
of
Marshall
D.
Wilber,
head
of
the
Wilber
Mercantile
Agency.
John
Lloyd
Wright,
in
his
biography
of
his
father
tells
us
that
the
Wilburs
loved
the
place
and
preserved
everything
as
it
was
originally
built.
Commenting
on
the
occasion
when
he
accompanied
the
older
Wright
to
dinner, he
continued:
"The
old
brown-stained
furniture
and
woodwork
was
cleaned
and
polished.
The
soft
autumn
shade on the
sand-finished
wall
panels
had
been
maintained.
The
special
light fixtures
and
leaded
glass
windows
were
clear
and
bright...After
we
left,
Dad
said
to
me:
'You
see
John,
that's
an
example
of
a
house
that
has
character,
it
growns
more valuable
as
it
grows
older.'"
The
Robie
family
lived
in
the
house
for
two
and
a
half
years.
The
next
owner,
the
W.
Taylor
family,
sold
it
to
Marshall
D.
Wilber
after
six
months.
The
Wilbers
lived
in
Form
No.
10-300a
(Rev.
10-74)
UNITED
STATES
DEPARTMENT
O\
THE
INTERIOR
NATIONAL
PARK
SERVICE
NATIONAL
REGISTER
OF
HISTORIC
PLACES
INVENTORY
-
NOMINATION
FORM
CONTINUATION
SHEET
Robie
House
ITEM
NUMBER
#8 PAGE
3______________________
the
house
15
years.
The
Chicago
Theological
Seminary
bought
the
house
from
the
Wilbers
for
$100,000
in
1926,
primarily
as
a
site
for
future
expansion,
and
used
it
variously
as
a
vomen's
dormitory,
a
classroom,
building,
a
refectory,
and
a
conference
center.
In
1957
9
"the
Seminary
announced
that
it
would
raze
the
building
to
provide
part
of
a
site
for
married
student's
housing.
The
announcement
brought
a
flood
of
protests
from
many,
but
none
of
the
protesting
individuals
or
organizations
vas
able
to
suggest
or
finance
a
plan
for
the
preservation
of the
building. However,
¥ebb
&
Knapp,
who
had
the
contract
as
the
redeveloper
for
the
Hyde
Park
urban
renewal
project,
bought Robie
House
for
$102,000,
to
use
as
construction
headquarters.
The
Seminary
acquired
the
land
just
to
the
north
of
Robie
House,
which
provided
enough
space
for
the
new
housing.
At
the
time
it
announced
its
intention
to
raze
Robie
House,
the
Seminary
said
approximately
$75,000
in
structural
repairs
was
required,
and
the
cost
of
bringing
the
building
into
compliance
with
the
Building
Code
of
the
City of
Chicago
would
be
an
additional
$25,000.
Webb
&
Knapp
made
no
structural
changes.
In
1962,
the
company
offered
to
donate
the
house
to
any
agency
that
would
undertake
to
preserve
it.
On
February
k,
1963,
the
University
of
Chicago
accepted
the
responsibility
to
maintain
and use
Robie
House
in
perpetuity provided
the
substantial
sum
required
to
restore
and
repair
it
would
be collected by those
who
wanted
it
preserved.
An
international
commit-
tee
of
more
than
a
hundred
architects,
historians,
critics,
and
educators
was
then
formed,
with
members representing
all
parts
of
the
United
States,Australia,
England,
France,
Japan,
Switzerland,
Brazil,
India, Italy,
and
Germany.
The
fund-raising
drive
for
$250,000
was
opened
in 1963.
This
amount
included restoring
the
original
details
of
construction,
as
well
as
bringing
the
house
into
conformity
with
current
building
code
standards.
A
considerable
amount
of
delicate
hand
removal
and repair
was
required.
In
February
196k
9
Taliesin Associates
Architects were
named
as
architects
for
the
restoration.
By
December
1965
$62,990
had
been
collected.
With
this
money,
a
new
ceramic
tile
roof
duplicating
the
original
has
been
laid;
and
a
new
gas
heating
unit
and
new
electrical
service
wiring
have
been
installed.
The
Adlai
Stevenson
Institute
of
International
Affairs
has
occupied
the
house
for
a
decade
A
1967
article
in
The
Prairie
School
Review
said that
in
their
planning
for
the
use of
Robie
House
the
Institute
wanted
a
seminar
and
conference
center
as
well
as
offices
for
their^staff.
Lacking
funds
for
a
complete restoration,
the
Institute
decided
to
make
such
repairs
as
would
bring
the
structure
up
to
modern
code
requirements,
do a
thorough
cleaning,
and provide
needed
facilities
by
careful
use
of
original
and
new
furnishings.
With
regards
to
alterations
of
the
original
Wright
plan
for
the
Robie
House,
the
same
article
reported:
Many
built-in
furnishings
and
fittings
are
missing
such
as
the
dining
room
buffet
and the
inglenook
seat
beside
the
living
room
fireplace.
On
the
exterior,
the
unfortunate
tuckpoint
performed
in
recent
years
must
be
Form
No.
10-300a
(Rev.
10-74)
UNITED
STATES
DEPARTMENT
Ol
THE
INTERIOR
NATIONAL
PARK
SERVICE
NATIONAL
REGISTER
OF
HISTORIC
PLACES
INVENTORY
-
NOMINATION
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DATE
ENTERED
CONTINUATION
SHEET Robie
House
ITEM
NUMBER
#%
PAGE
^
removed,
and
redone
to
re-establish
the
proper
horizontal
emphasis
to
the
house.
The
east
garden
vail
should
be
restored
to
its
original
height
and
the
addition
to
the
garage
must
be
removed.
(p.l8).
Presently
the
house
is
in
structurally
sound
condition,
but
much
of
the
details
and
the
Wright-designed
fixtures
are
in
need
of
repair
and
restoration.
Form
No.
10-300a
(Rev.
10-74)
UNITED
STATES
DtPARTMLNT
OF
THL
IN
IhRIOR
NATIONAL
PARK
SERVICE
RECEIVED
NATIONAL
REGISTER
OF
HISTORIC
PLACES
INVENTORY
-
NOMINATION
FORM
DATE
FOR
NFS
USE
ON1Y
CONTZ
N
U
ATS
ON
SHEET
Robie
House_____ITEM
NUMBER
#9
PAGE
2______________________
Farr,
Finis,
Frank
Lloyd
Wright
,
New
York,
Charles
Scribner'-s
Sons, 1961.
Giedion,
Sigfried,
Space,
Time
and
Architecture,
Cambridge,
Harvard
University
Press, 195
1
*
Hitchcock,
Henry-Russell,
Architecture
Nineteenth
and
Twentieth
Centuries,
Baltimore,
Penguin
Books,
Inc.,
1958.
Hitchcock,
Henry-Russell,
In
the
Nature
of
Materials
1887-19^1;
The
Buildings
of
Frank
Lloyd
Wright,
New
York,
Duell,
Sloan
and
Pierce,
lpU2.
House
Beautiful,
November,
1955»
special
issue
on
Frank
Lloyd
Wright
T
s
Contribution
to
the
Beauty
of
American
Life.
House
Beautiful,
October,
1959*
special
issue
on
Our
Heritage
from
Frank
Lloyd
Wright.
Karpel,
Bernard,
What
Men
Have
Written
About
Frank Lloyd
Wright,
A
bibliography
arranged by
decades
from
1900
to
1955,
compiled
for
House
Beautiful
Magazine
1955;
with
supplement,
1959-
Mason,
Frank
Lloyd
Wright
to
1910»
New
York,
Reinhold
Publishing
Corporation,
1958.
McCallum,
lan,
Architecture
U.S.A.,
New
York,
Reinhold
Publishing
Corporation,
1959•
Scully,
Vincent,
Jr.,
Frank
Lloyd
Wright,
New
York,
George
Braziller,
Inc., I960.
Von
Eckart,
Wolf
(ed.)
Mid-Century
Architecture
in
America,
Baltimore,
Johns
Hopkins
Press
for
the
American
Institute
of
Architects,
1961.
Wright,
Frank
Lloyd,
A
Testament,
New
York,
Horizon
Press,
1957-
Wright,
Frank
Lloyd,
An
Autobiography,New
York,
Duell,
Sloan
and
Pierce,
19^3-
Wright,
Frank
Lloyd,
Drawings
for
a
Living
Architecture,
New
York
Heritage
Press
for
the Bear
Run
Foundation
and
the
Edgar
J.
Kaufman
Charitable
Foundation,
1959•
Wright,
Frank
Lloyd,
On
Architecture,
Selected
Writings
189^-19^0
edited
with
an
Introduction
by
Frederick
Gutheim,
New York
Duell,
Sloan
and
Pierce,
19^1.
Wright,
Frank
Lloyd,
Writings
and
Buildings,
selected
by
Edgar
Kaufman
and Ben
Raeburn,
New
York,
Horizon
Press,
Inc., I960.
Wright,
John
Lloyd,
My
Father
Who
Is
On
Earth,
New
York,
Putman's
Sons,
19^6.
Wright,
Olgivanna
Lloyd,
The
Shining
Brow
Frank
Lloyd
Wright,
New
York,
Horizon
Press,
1960.
Zevi,
Bruno,
Towards
an
Organic
Architecture,
London,
Faber
and
Faber
Ltd.,
n.d.
(c.
19^9).
Historic
American
Buildings
Survey
report
No
111-1005,
August
1967.
Press
release,
"Architectural
and
Historical
Guide,
Robie
House,
prepared
by
University
of
Chicago,
Office
of
'Special
Events,
1
1975
Original
Historic
Sites
Survey
Report
by
S.
Sydney
Bradford,
196U.
Form
No.
10-300a
(Rev.
10-74)
UNITED
STATES
DEPARTMENT
OF
THb
INTERIOR
NATIONAL
PARK
SERVICE
NATIONAL
REGISTER
OF
HISTORIC
PLACES
INVENTORY
--
NOMINATION
FORM
CONTINUATION
SHEET
Robie
House
ITEM
NUMBER
#10
PAGE
2
Beginning
at
the
northeast
corner
of
the
intersection
of
58th
Street
and
Woodlawn
Avenue,
the
boundary
runs
north
along
the
east
curb
of
Woodlavn
Avenue,
then
east
along
the
property
line
to
the
alley
midway
through
the
block,
then
south
along
the
property
line
to
58th
Street,
then
vest
along
the
north
curb
of
58th
Street
to
the
beginning
point.
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