Walter Gale House
- Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Year
- 1893
- Style
- Queen Anne
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- wright’s chicago
The Walter H. Gale House was Frank Lloyd Wright's first commission after leaving Louis Sullivan's firm, Adler & Sullivan, in 1893. Walter Gale, a member of one of Oak Park's founding families and a local hardware store operator, commissioned it as one of two speculative houses Wright built for him that year - the other being the nearby Robert P. Parker House. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
the building
A speculative pair. Wright designed the Gale House as one of a series of modest, speculative homes he built in 1892 and 1893, including a second house for Gale himself, the Robert P. Parker House, just down Chicago Avenue.
the style
Built in the Queen Anne style, the house followed the character of Wright's own nearby home rather than anticipating the Prairie style he would develop only a few years later.
More on Queen Annethe architect
The Gale House marks the start of Wright's independent career: it was the first house he designed after leaving Adler & Sullivan, the firm of engineer Dankmar Adler and architect Louis Sullivan, in 1893.
More on Frank Lloyd Wrightsignificance
The Walter H. Gale House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 17, 1973.
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nearby
- Thomas H. Gale House
- Robert P. Parker House
- Francis J. Woolley House
- Nathan G. Moore House
- Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
- William H. Copeland House