page_title: Laura Gale House
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Laura Gale House / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Plan for the Laura Gale House, 6 Elizabeth Court, Oak Park IL. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1909. After Wasmuth Plate XLV. Deutsch: Grundriss vom Laura-Gale-Haus, 6 Elizabeth Court, Oak Park, Illinois, USA. 1909 von Frank Lloyd Wright entworfen. Nach Wasmuth Tafel XLV.
context_page_description: The Laura Gale House, also known as the Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House, is a home in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The house was designed by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1909. It is located within the boundaries of the Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District and has been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since March 5, 1970.
context_section_description: The house was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in his own Prairie style. Through his use of abstract geometrical shapes in the detail and mass of the house Wright may have anticipated and inspired the modern European architects of the 1920s. The house is considered one of Wright's most unusual designs from his years in Oak Park, Illinois. It is compact and made up of interlocking rectilinear forms which surround a fireplace at its center. The extreme rectilinear shapes and masses on the home's exterior are represented in none of Wright's other works either before or after the completion of the Gale House. However, the home's interior was similar to that of the Walser House in Chicago and the Barton House in Buffalo, New York.
caption: Floor plan.
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