The George W. Smith House is a home in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, United States, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1895.
The George W. Smith House was designed in 1895 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright as one of a series of low-cost homes for engineer and inventor Charles E. Roberts.
[2] The home's eventual owner and namesake, George W. Smith, was a salesman for the Chicago firm Marshall Field & Company.
Wright employed this same effect ten years later when he designed the Unity Temple, of which George W. Smith was a member.
The broad, flat chimney that dominates the front elevation as well as minimal horizontal banding are both evident elements found in the home and within the Prairie School of architecture.
[1] The house is one of two Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings within the Ridgeland Historic District; the other structure is the Unity Temple.