George Furbeck House
- Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Style
- Queen Anne
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- wright’s chicago
The George W. Furbeck House at 223 N. Euclid Avenue was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1897 for Chicago electrical contractor George W. Furbeck and his bride, Sue Allin Harrington, on a lot Furbeck's father had bought five years earlier. Built in the Queen Anne style, it captures Wright in transition — a step in the late-1890s evolution that would culminate in his first fully mature Prairie style house.
the building
Interior largely unchanged. While the exterior has seen some alteration, the house's interior remains much as it appeared when construction finished in 1897, offering a comparatively unaltered look at Wright's work from this period.
the style
The Furbeck House is cast in Queen Anne, but historians treat it as a hinge point in Wright's development — one of the designs that carried him out of his early historicist phase and toward the horizontal Prairie style he would soon make his own.
More on Queen Annethe architect
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American architect, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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The house was listed as a contributing property to a federal Registered Historic District in 1973 and was declared a local Oak Park Landmark in 2002.
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