Thomas H. Gale House
- Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Style
- Queen Anne
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- wright’s chicago
The Thomas H. Gale House, built in 1892 at 1027 Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, is one of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Bootleg Houses" — commissions he took on the side while still employed at Adler & Sullivan, defying Louis Sullivan's rule against outside work. Sullivan even loaned Wright money to help build it. The house matters today mainly for what it shows about Wright's earliest architectural experiments.
the building
One of three bootleg houses. The Gale House belongs to a trio built along Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, alongside the Robert P. Parker House and the Walter Gale House, all designed secretly by Wright while he was still on Adler & Sullivan's payroll.
the style
The house was built in the Queen Anne style then fashionable for American houses, predating the horizontal, Prairie-inspired vocabulary Wright would develop later in his career.
More on Queen Annethe architect
Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Gale House in 1892 while employed by Adler & Sullivan, the firm run by engineer Dankmar Adler and architect Louis Sullivan. Taking outside commissions was forbidden by Sullivan, making this one of Wright's clandestine early projects.
More on Frank Lloyd Wrightsignificance
The house is a contributing property to a federally registered historic district on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated an Oak Park Landmark in 2002.
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nearby
- Walter Gale House
- Robert P. Parker House
- Francis J. Woolley House
- Nathan G. Moore House
- Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
- William H. Copeland House