Prairie Sites
In Illinois:
 

Arenzville
Aurora
Barrington_Hills

Batavia

Belvidere
Berwyn
Bloomington
Blue Island
Brookfield

Calumet City
Camp Point 
Canton
Champaign
Chicago
Danville
Decatur
Dekalb
Delevan
Dixon
Downers_Grove
Dwight
Edwardsville
Elgin
Elmhurst
Evanston
Flossmore 
Galva
Geneva
Glencoe

Glen Ellyn
Highand Park
Harvey
Hinsdale
Jacksonville
Joliet
Kankakee
 Kenilworth
 LaGrange
Lincoln
Lisle
Lombard

Maywood
Morris
 Naperville

Normal
Oak Park

0ttawa
Palos Park

Peoria
Plainfield
Pontiac
Quincy
River Forest Riverside

Rochelle
Rockford
Rock Island
St. Charles Springfield Villa_Park 
Watseka

Western Springs

Wheaton
Wilmette
Winnetka

Winfield
 

Rick's WrightSite (TM) 90 12/08/2013
Prairie Style Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
(and contemporaries) in Illinois, and beyond...

Prairie Sites
Beyond Illinois:


Alexandria
Bloomington
Buffalo
Canton, OH
Dallas
Dayton
Deal, NJ
Denver
Derby, NY
Dunbar, PA
Elkhart
Elkins Park, PA
Ft. Myers
Ft Wayne
Gary
Grand Beach
Grand Rapids
Hammond
Holland
Indiana
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Logansport
Kalamazoo
Kansas City
Kenosha
Kirkwood
Lake_Geneva
Lakeland

Los Angeles
Madison, WI
Madison, OH
Marion

Memphis
Milwaukee
Mill Run, PA
Montclair, NJ
 
New York 
Oberlin,Ohio
Ogden Dunes 
Pasadena
Phoenix
Plainfield
Racine
Rochester
San Diego
San Jose
South Bend
Taliesin
Spring Green
 Springfield, Ohio

 
San Rafael
Santa Cruz
St Joseph
St Petersburg
 Scottsdale-Taliesin West

Shorewood
Tampa

Tucson
Waikapu, Maui
Wauwatosa
West Lafayette
Whiting
Williams Bay
 

My work as a volunteer certified docent/interpreter and research captain for the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust is enriched by my knowledge of work by Wright and his contemporaries. Here is my photo gallery of prairie style architecture and FLW sites that I have visited as part of my travels and studies. Many thanks to John Panning and his Prairie School Traveler site for making many of these discoveries possible, and the docent interpreters at sites I have visited. I look forward to seeing you at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois.

Rick's Wright-Site Home Index of Prairie Sites Index of WrightSites Links to Frank Lloyd Wright sites. Other Prairie Sites

 Waikapu, Maui, Hawaii        
King Kamehameha Golf Club, Waikapu, Maui, Hawaii - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1949

The clubhouse at this posh, two-course club near Wailea was based on a luxury home design originally drafted by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1949 for another client and revised in 1957 for Marilyn Monroe and her then-husband, playwright Arthur Miler. The project died after their marriage went down in flames. The design languished until a group of Japanese investors contracted with Taliesin West, the architectural studio that FLW founded for the design right. It cost $27 million to complete and was finished in 1993 but has been closed to the public when the original club closed.

According to the new owners' website, Frank Lloyd Wright, drew the original plans in 1949 as a concept for a 7,000 sq. ft. luxury home in Fort Worth, Texas. However, the plans were never used until 1988 that the archived plans were enlarged and adapted to build the 74,000 sq. ft. clubhouse on the slopes of Waikapu, Maui. It was completed and opened for business in 1993. The former owners and operators closed the golf course and clubhouse in 1999, due to the downturn of the economy. The property was abandoned and neglected for nearly six years, except the large rooms were still used for banquet functions.

In July 2004, the property was purchased by the current owner. Renovation of the golf course and clubhouse took approximately 18 months before it reopened in May 2006 as Maui's first 18-hole member golf club.

See Wall Street Journal Article by BRETT CAMPBELL, April 19, 2007; Wall Street Journal: Page D8

           
         
           
   

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