Prairie Style Video

VIDEO EPISODE 24

    Prairie style architecture became the first style Frank Lloyd Wright created during the early years of his career in Oak Park, Illinois. Influenced by the parts of his childhood spent on Wisconsin farms, Wright designed homes suited for a prairie environment. The horizontal nature of those homes was meant to mimic and fit in with the Prairie.
    Wright designed numerous Prairie style homes, but there is one that is considered the quintessential example of Prairie style, and that home - the Robie house - is where Meghan visited to learn about the main features of Prairie style. During her visit, Karen Sweeney, the director of restoration at the Robie house, pointed out the main characteristics of Prairie style homes and taught her how to pick them out from other styles of architecture.