Willits
House
The
Ward W. Willits
House is a building designed by famous architect
Frank Lloyd Wright. Designed in 1901 the Willits
house is considered the first of the great Prairie
houses. Built in the Chicago suburb of Highland
Park, Illinois, the house
presents a symmetrical facade to the street, the
plan is a cruciform with four wings that extend
out from a central hearth. In addition to art glass
windows
and wooden screens that divide rooms, Wright also
designed most of the furniture
in the house.
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