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Show PLATES Plate 1. House for Mr. W. H. Winslow in River Forest, Illinois, Entrance Detail 16. Many of the features which have since characterized this work originated in this house. The setting of the basement outside the main walls of the house to form a preparation for the projecting sill courses: the division of the exterior wall surfaces into body and frieze. changing the material above the second story sill line. the wide level eaves, with low sloping roofs: the one massive chimney: and the feeling for con- trast between plain wall surface and richly decorated and concentrated masses: the use of the window as a decorative feature in itself: the lines of the building extending into the grounds, the low walls and parterre utilized to associate it with its site. A beautiful elm standing near gave the suggestion for the mass of the building. Plate II. House for Mrs. Aline Devin. Ground plan and perspective. A working out of a difficult problem in planning. A house to be built on a fashionable Chicago Drive, lot fifty feet wide extending from the Drive to the lake shore. An arrangement was desired which should respect the thoroughfare and locate the living-rooms toward the lake.--that is, at the rear of the building. The rear outside entrance is screened within the building itself, the library and dining-rooms looking toward the Drive and toward the lake. An urban character in the exterior. Designed to be executed in brick. stone and tile. Plate III. Stable of the Winslow house, River Forest. Ground plan and perspective. Plate IV. Perspective and ground plan of a city dwelling for Isadore Heller, Woodlawn Avenue. Details of Husser house. Buena Park, Chicago. Built in 1896. Brick walls. tile roofs and plaster frieze Plate V. Francis Apartments, Forestville Ave. and 3znd St., Chicago. A characteristic solution of the apartment house problem as it existed in that neighborhood in 1893. Plate VI. Atelier of Frank Lloyd Wright, Oak Park, 111. An early study in articulation--the various functions featured. individualized and grouped. The working office of the architect. Plate VII. Bird's eye view of Lexington Terraces. A solution of the low cost housing problem, typical of the great middle west side of Chicago. The build- ing is an aggregation of 3,4 and 5-room flats-in two groups. Each group has its own inner court. with central heating, lighting. laundry and janitor service. A 4-room flat for $20 per month. all included: other flats in proportion. The entrance to each flat is direct from the outside. all common inside halls and stairs having been avoided, and perfect privacy secured. All public stairs are located in the open at the angles of the courts. or in recessions of outside wall. Each flat has a rear entrance and rear porch. The plan is the development of the Francisco Terraces built for Mr. E. C. Waller in 1894. Plate VIII. Perspective of dwelling for Mr. McAfee, Kenilworth, Illinois. An early design, made about two years after the Winslow house was designed. A suburban dwelling on the lake shore. Library top lighted: large living-room, light on two sides. To be executed in brick, stone. and terra cotta with the roof. Plate IX. Perspective of dwelling for Victor Metzger, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Study and ground plan of Metzger dwelling. |