The home credited as one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Prairie School designs, the 1900 Warren Hickox House, has hit the market recently in Kankakee, Illinois, for a listing price of $779,000.
Realtor.com was early to report news of the home’s listing, which represents the first time the home has been available for purchase in 48 years. Sited adjacent to the R. Harley Bradley House from the same year, the 3,277-square-foot design features four bedrooms and 2.5 baths and is completed by a Japanese-inspired roofline the then 33-year-old Wright was drawn to even before his first visit to the country in 1905.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust describes: “Despite the relatively small scale of the residence, Wright created a sense of both interior and exterior expansiveness through his use of a modified cruciform plan and his manipulation of architectural space, form, and details.”
“On the interior, the living room opens onto a terrace and two bayed alcoves—one serving as a dining room and the other as a library. The wide, open doorways between the alcoves and living room create a flow of space between the rooms. This sense of openness is enhanced by thin bands of leaded glass that span the bays.”
The house was restored in 2005. Each of the of the home's four upper-level bedrooms has had their original built-ins and leaded glass preserved as part of the process.
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that buyers from as far away as Dubai have expressed interest. The listing follows last year's sale of Wright's Tirranna home in Connecticut for $6 million and a pair of Usonian-style homes in Michigan for $4.5 million.
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That little sunroom they added though, ooof.
There are a lot of houses under 100K 2-3 blocks in the vicinity. Probably it gets freezing there.. (something somebody from So. California would write...)
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