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unusual facts about Prairie School


Prairie School

An example of Prairie School architecture is the aptly named "The Prairie School," a private day school in Racine, Wisconsin, designed by Taliesin Associates (an architectural firm originated by Wright), and located almost adjacent to Wright's Wingspread Conference Center.


Alfonso Iannelli

Afterward, Iannelli collaborated with noted Chicago area Prairie School design architects Purcell and Elmslie, notably on the Woodbury County Courthouse, and with architect Barry Byrne for several church projects in the American Midwest, and one in Ireland.

Ben Rebhuhn House

This house is similar to the Ernest Vosburgh House in Grand Beach, Michigan, except that this house is in the Usonian style while the Vosburgh residence, built 21 years earlier, was in the Prairie style.

Burlingame, San Diego

Burlingame is a historic district recognized by the City of San Diego for its Craftsman Bungalow, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Prairie School, Art Deco and California Ranch architectural styles as well as properties that are hybrids of several styles.

George Grant Elmslie

George Grant Elmslie (February 20, 1869 – April 23, 1952) was an American, though born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Prairie School architect whose work is mostly found in the Midwestern United States.

Samuel Moore House

Built in 1912 by a well-known Madison carpenter, contractor and architect, Charles E. Marks, the Moore House exemplifies his influence to the American Craftsman style and also, Prairie School design that was emerging in Madison during that time period.


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Catlow Theater

Betts & Holcomb served as the architects and the interiors were designed by Prairie School sculptor and designer Alfonso Iannelli.

Hartington City Hall and Auditorium

Architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson ascribes Steele’s use of Romanesque elements to an “attempt to personalize the Prairie School idiom” that began with Steele’s First Congregational Church (Sioux City, 1916–1918), where he notes that the “two different geometries are not resolved.”

Madlener

Madlener House, also known as Albert F. Madlener House, is a Prairie School house located at 4 West Burton Street in Chicago, Illinois, United States