Architectural Styles
Prairie
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1890-1925
- Strong horizontal lines
- reflect the flat landscape of the American Midwest
- low-pitched roofs
- wide overhanging eaves
- open, flowing space planning
- local materials
- brick, wood and stone,
- harmonize with their environment
- large windows
- USA
- Canada
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Single family homes
- bungalows
- public buildings
- Robie House Chicago
- Unity Temple Illinois,
- B. Harley Bradley House Ilinois
- Larkin Administration Building Buffalo
- Charles E. Roberts House Illinois
- William H. Winslow House Illinois,
- rank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio Oak Park, Illinois;
- Woodbury County Courthouse, Iowa
- Meyer May House in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Ward Willits House, Highland Park, Illinois
- Merchants National Bank, Winona, Minnesota
- Henry Schultz House, Winnetka, Illinois
- William H. Emery Jr. House
- Ralph Griffin House, Edwardsville, Illinois
- William E. Drummond house, River Forest, Illinois
- Morocco Temple, Jacksonville, Florida
- First Reformed Church, Toledo, Ohio
- Veterans’ Memorial Library in St. Cloud, Florida
- Oak Circle Historic District
- Park Inn Hotel & City National Bank Building Mason City, Iowa
- G. C. Stockman House
- Mason City, Iowa
- First Congregational Church of Austin
- Frederick B. Carter, Jr. House — in Evanston, Illinois
- Stinson Memorial Library Illinois
- Cafe Brauer in Chicago
- Taliesin Spring Green, Wisconsin
- Urban Hotels & Commercial Hotels
- Railway-Adjacent & Transport Hotels
- Apartment Hotels & Long-Stay Accommodation (Core Prairie Type)
- Resort Hotels & Lakeside Inns
- Boarding Houses, Inns
- Converted Prairie Residences
- Early Motor Hotels & Tourist Courts (Proto-Motels)
- Institutional Lodging with Prairie Influence
- B&B
- Park Inn Hotel Mason City, Iowa 1909–1910. The only remaining hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
- Hotel Braley (later Braley Apartments) Flint, Michigan 1919
- Wright-Influenced Apartment Hotels — Chicago; Oak Park, Evanston
- The Plainsman Hotel (historic phase) Kansas
- Hotel Florence (resort phase) Florence, Wisconsin
- Midwestern Lakeside Inns (Wisconsin / Michigan / Minnesota)
- Prairie-Style Auto Courts Midwest & Plains States
- Taliesin Estate Guest Accommodation — Spring Green, Wisconsin Frank Lloyd Wright
- Midwestern Retreat & Conference Lodges
Adaptive Reuse
- Prairie Houses Converted to Inns – Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin
- Prairie School Inn Oak Park, Illinois
Landmarks
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