The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a historic house museum in Oak Park, Illinois, United States.

[11] The property also contained a black willow and may have also included butternut, walnut, sugar maple, and honey locust trees, in addition to forsythia bushes.

[26] With his mother's assistance, Wright obtained a house and barn at the southeast corner of Chicago and Forest avenues in Oak Park.

[38] The original design included a large gable roof inspired by two of Bruce Price's cottages in Tuxedo Park, New York.

[42][43] Kitty bemoaned the fact that her husband focused more on the house's design than on his own family,[44] and Wright himself reflected that he did not feel like a father figure to his children.

[23][49] Sullivan's partner Dankmar Adler transferred ownership of the Oak Park house to Wright,[49] who started his own architectural practice.

[39][55] After Wright moved his firm's Chicago headquarters to the top story of Steinway Hall in 1897,[56][57] he drew up plans for an architectural studio at his own house.

[67] These associates included Richard Bock, Barry Byrne, William Eugene Drummond, Walter Burley Griffin, Marion Mahony Griffin, George Mann Niedecken, Isabel Roberts, John S. Van Bergen, and Charles E. White Jr..[68][69] Generally, many of Wright's associates stayed only a few years before founding their own firms.

[101][102] Bastear and Thomas are recorded as having paid $28,250 for the building, with a loan from Martin,[VI][29][101] while the Chicago Tribune reported the sale price as $33,250.

[110] The two second-floor apartments were occupied by multiple women who shared a bathroom, a kitchen (within the master bedroom), and a dining room (within the playroom).

[108][111] The director of Oak Park's Landmarks Commission said the Nooker family had declined an offer from local residents to purchase the house.

[48][118][e] The corporation handed over operations to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation,[48][119] which had been organized that June to care for the building.

[48][121] Shortly afterward, Frank's eldest son Lloyd revisited the building, saying that "it's a miracle" that the house section's decorations remained largely intact.

[122] Lloyd regarded the building's sale as part of a "stupid" trend of selling off land for profit, though he expressed optimism about the complex's preservation.

[119] The Home and Studio Foundation requested a special permit from the village to host events,[124][125] though local residents worried that this would increase noise pollution and congestion.

[124] By early 1975, the National Trust had agreed to buy the building and provide a $106,500 matching grant if the foundation raised an equivalent amount before June 30.

[142] By then, there were plans to raise $500,000 for renovation,[114][140] The building had deteriorated extensively over the years, both because of a lack of maintenance and because it had been completed hastily; for instance, the library was tilting to one side.

[148] During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Home and Studio Foundation also made changes to the windows, woodwork, veranda walls, and lighting, and it updated the playroom, the dayroom, and the living room's inglenook.

[27] A local bank donated funds to refurbish a mural in the house in 1979,[164] and the Ginkgo Tree Shop relocated to the garage that year.

[219][210] The trust devised an alternate plan to convert 925 Chicago Avenue into an art resource center and a library for Wright's archives.

[226][31] The exterior includes geometric design features such as rectangular windows, semicircular lunettes, rhombus-shaped glass panes, and sawtooth-shaped shingles.

[227] He also included design details like inglenooks and protruding polygonal bays,[227][226] in addition to Shingle style elements like rectangular windows and circular verandas.

[247] These included Japanese silk prints, Oriental rugs, Ancient Greek sculpture, Victorian lamps, and Chinese and Jacobean furniture.

[257] The modern-day living room has armchairs, East Asian furniture, and artwork by Wright's friends William Wendt and Charles Abel Corwin.

[272][275] The studio's Chicago Avenue loggia leads to a reception hall[76][276] with three gold-and-green art glass skylights, separated by deep wooden beams.

[109] There are also self-guided audio tours of other Wright buildings in Oak Park,[322][327] most of which are privately owned, aside from the museum and the nearby Unity Temple.

[328] Over the years, the Home and Studio Foundation has hosted various programs, including educational workshops for youth,[329] an architecture camp for adults,[330] and the annual "Wright Places" tour and conference.

[87][158] The house's decorative details include earth-toned color palettes, open floor plans, built-in furniture, and casement windows, all of which became characteristics of his later work.

[246] In 1976, a writer for The Christian Science Monitor said that Wright had "revolutionized the architecture of the world" when he was designing Prairie-style buildings at the Oak Park studio.

[148] A Wall Street Journal reporter described the building as "a rambling, marvelously varied structure" that incorporated many of the same features as Wright's later designs.