The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio served as Wright's primary residence and studio from 1889 to 1909. Wright used his home as an architectural laboratory, experimenting with space, form, light, materials, furnishings and decorative arts. The building was constantly in transition, showcasing the architecture's evolving design philosophy. In 1895, Wright expanded the living space of the home, and in 1898 he added the studio, from which he designed more than 150 structures, including such famous buildings as the Robie House, Larkin Building and Unity Temple. This extraordinary Home and Studio complex served as the birthplace of the first fully American style of architecture. Here, Wright conceived the Prairie style of architecture, developing ideas that founded their fullest expression in many of the surrounding homes he designed for clients.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust offers guided walking tours of the Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie School of
Architecture National Historic District in Oak Park. The area surrounding the Home and Studio contains the world's largest
concentration of Wright-designed structures. With 25 of his buildings in the village, as well as a rich selection of
restored Prairie School and Victorian homes, Oak Park is an outdoor museum of architectural history.