The Edmund D. Brigham House is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at 790 Sheridan Road in Glencoe, Illinois. Wright designed the house circa 1908 for Edmund D. Brigham, a freight agent for the Chicago & North Western Railway, and it was completed the following year. Wright's design is a variation of the one in his article "A Fireproof House for $5000", a concrete home design which he published in the Ladies' Home Journal in 1907. While the Brigham House was the only one of Wright's Fireproof House for $5000 designs actually built with concrete, he would continue to work and experiment with the material throughout his career. The house's Prairie School plan has a central two-story section with one-story wings on either side, several rows of casement windows, and large piers at the corners of the central section and the middle of each wing.[2]
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| Location | 790 Sheridan Rd., Glencoe, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 42°08′22″N 87°45′18″W / 42.13944°N 87.75500°W |
| Built | 1909 |
| Architect | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Architectural style | Prairie School |
| NRHP reference No. | 16000900[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 27, 2016 |
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 2016.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Weekly Lists 2017" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Solway, Susan; Yant, Gwen Sommers; Benjamin, Susan (August 1, 2016). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Brigham, Edmund D., House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved September 26, 2020.[dead link]