Frank Lloyd Wright finished the Robie House in 1910 for Frederick C. Robie, a young businessman in the bicycle and motorcar trade.
Its long cantilevered roofs and horizontal bricks made it the defining Prairie School house. The Robies sold it just fourteen months after moving in.
The house was threatened with demolition twice and is now part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing.
Timeline
- 1910The Robie family moves in.
- 1911They sell the house.
- 1963Designated a National Historic Landmark.
A masterpiece can still be a house its first family had to leave.
