Robie House information

Frederick C. Robie House
Frederick C. Robie House
Location	5757 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°47′23.4″N 87°35′45.3″W / 41.789833°N 87.595917°W
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1909
Architect	Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural style(s)	Prairie style
Governing body	The University of Chicago
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Criteria	Cultural: (ii)
Designated	2019 (43rd session)
Part of	The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Reference no.	1496-002
Region	Europe and North America
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Designated	October 15, 1966
Reference no.	66000316
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Designated	November 27, 1963
Chicago Landmark
Designated	September 15, 1971
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The Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S. National Historic Landmark now on the campus of the University of Chicago in the South Side community area of Hyde Park in Chicago, Illinois. Built between 1909 and 1910, the building was designed as a single family home by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.^[4] It is considered perhaps the finest example of Prairie School, the first architectural style considered uniquely American.^[5]

Robie House was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 27, 1963, and was on the first National Register of Historic Places list of October 15, 1966.^[1] The house and a selection of seven other properties by Wright were inscribed on the World Heritage List under the title "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" in July 2019.^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Frederick C. Robie House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2012-07-31. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
^ "Chicago Landmarks - Robie House" (PDF). 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-08-26. Note: While the current 2016 edition of Chicago Landmarks published by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks places the date of landmark status in 1971, other reliable sources place the date in April 1957, immediately after the formation of the precursor to the current Landmarks Commission in March 1957.
^ The design drawings for the Robie House no longer exist; it is not known whether Wright discarded the drawings or they were destroyed in the Taliesin fire of 1914. The only construction documents that exist are the contractor's blueprints, several measured studies for furniture and interior details, and a couple of perspective renderings. "The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright," Connors, Joseph, University of Chicago Press, 1984, p. 46. The original blueprints, a survey of the Robie House lot, a set of the original specifications, the contractor's account book, and copies of 30 photographs of the house during construction are in the collection of the Department of Special Collections of the University of Chicago, donated in 1978 by William Bernard, the son of the original contractor, Harrison B. Bernard. Id., p. 83.
^ Frederick C. Robie House, NHL Database, National Historic Landmarks Program. Retrieved February 9, 2007.
^ Cite error: The named reference whs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nhlsum-2] "Frederick C. Robie House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2012-07-31. Retrieved 2008-06-11.

[chi-3] "Chicago Landmarks - Robie House" (PDF). 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-08-26. Note: While the current 2016 edition of Chicago Landmarks published by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks places the date of landmark status in 1971, other reliable sources place the date in April 1957, immediately after the formation of the precursor to the current Landmarks Commission in March 1957.

[4] The design drawings for the Robie House no longer exist; it is not known whether Wright discarded the drawings or they were destroyed in the Taliesin fire of 1914. The only construction documents that exist are the contractor's blueprints, several measured studies for furniture and interior details, and a couple of perspective renderings. "The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright," Connors, Joseph, University of Chicago Press, 1984, p. 46. The original blueprints, a survey of the Robie House lot, a set of the original specifications, the contractor's account book, and copies of 30 photographs of the house during construction are in the collection of the Department of Special Collections of the University of Chicago, donated in 1978 by William Bernard, the son of the original contractor, Harrison B. Bernard. Id., p. 83.

[5] Frederick C. Robie House, NHL Database, National Historic Landmarks Program. Retrieved February 9, 2007.

[whs-6] Cite error: The named reference whs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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