Wright Plus 2016

May 22, 2016 (143/366) "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age." - Frank Lloyd Wright

William E. Drummond House, 1910 (my favorite), 559 Edgewood Place River Forest 

The Isabel Roberts House next door to Drummond (Frank Lloyd Wright 1908) - wasn't open this time

Next to the Drummond House (also designed by Drummond & Guenzel)

Charles J. Barr House (1912 - Drummond & Guenzel), 7234 Quick Ave. River Forest

A very early FLW commission

Winslow House (1894 - FLW's first private commission), 515 Auvergne Place, River Forest

River Forest Women's Club, 526 N. Ashland Ave. (now a private residence)

(Drummond & Guenzel 1913)

First Methodist Episcopal Church (1913), Drummond & Guenzel, 7970 Lake Street, River Forest

Windows representing Communion

What a shame that they replaced the original art glass with these stained glass windows in the 1960's!

FLW Home & Studio (1889) 951 Chicago Ave. Oak Park

Hemingway Slept Here

May 21, 2015 (142/366)

"Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.” - Ernest Hemingway

"Hemingway slept here..." -- it's almost another cliché. I've been to homes in Key West, Paris, the South of France, Spain --all places where Hemingway slept, and don't get me started on the "Hemingway drank here" signs. But this is where "Papa" was a baby. Ernest Hemingway was born here at 339 Oak Park Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899 and lived here for the first six years of his life.  After a lovely walk through several of the historic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed and -inspired homes in Oak Park and River Forest today (more on that tomorrow), we had lunch in Hemingway's neighborhood. I would have loved to tour the home and museum, but we ran out of time. This is on my list for our next visit!

Yes, it is spelled wrong...on purpose!

Cliché

May 20, 2016 (141/366)

"The biggest cliché in photography is sunrise and sunset." - Catherine Opie. And yet, sometimes, I just can't resist.

Pretty in Pink

May 19. 2016 (140/366)

"It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripen and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness." -  Sir Thomas Malory