page_title: Orrin Thompson (real estate developer)
section_title: House design
hierarchical_section_title: Orrin Thompson (real estate developer) / House design
caption_attribution_description: English: 515 Auvergne Place, River Forest IL USA Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright, 1894
context_page_description: Orrin Thompson was one of the largest real-estate developers in the United States. In the 1950s, a time when the post World War II population was exploding and in need of housing, he built and sold thousands of one-family homes, primarily in Minnesota. He contributed significantly to the creation of the mode of life in the twentieth century that became known as the suburb.
context_section_description: His typical house design was known as the rambler, or the ranch-style house; a modest one family house.  Its style borrowed modern ideas that had been developed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School. The design emphasized horizontality, large windows, a relatively flattened roof, and eaves that extend like the brim of a hat. The prototype of this style is Wright's first independent commission, with its innovative design: the William H. Winslow House of River Forrest, Illinois built in 1893.
caption: A prototype of design elements: Frank Lloyd Wright's William H. Winslow House (1893) in River Forest, Illinois
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