![](../../travelsite/trips/Chicago/img_bullet_flw.gif) | Aurora | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | William B. Greene House 1300 West Garfield Avenue Aurora, Illinois - Frank Lloyd Wright - 1912 The Greene House is the only house in Aurora designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Constructed in the Prairie style of architecture, it was at that time the smallest home that Wright designed. William B. Greene was one of the founders of the Barber-Greene Equipment Company. His college friend, Harry Robinson, was one of Wright�s draftsmen, and Greene posed the question with Harry as to Wright�s possible interest in a very modest home on his lot. Wright was indeed interested. Greene stated that home building was then slack, and Wright had fallen into disfavor with the public following the abandonment of his wife and six children for another woman. His friend Harry came out to the site to learn their requirements. They then reviewed other Wright plans and sketches which were all too elaborate. They preferred the gable roof over the flat roof, liked the casement windows and fireplace. In 1926, Robinson designed an addition to the west of the original house that nearly doubled the size of the house to accommodate Greene's growing family. Mr. & Mrs. Greene later built a Usonian retirement home behind their original Wright home in 1958. | | | | | | | | | | | ![](../../travelsite/trips/Chicago/flw_greene_hse_aurora_remc_1106-1_small1.jpg)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Healy Chapel, 332 West Downer Place, Aurora, Illinois - George G. Elmslie & Associates - 1927 | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Healy Chapel - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/flw_Aurora_Healy_Chapel_no_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Healy Chapel - Aurora, Illinois](prairie_arch_images/flw_Aurora_Healy_Chapel_wst_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Healy Chapel - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/flw_Aurora_Healy_Chapel_wst_win_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | ![Healy Chapel - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/flw_Aurora_Healy_Chapel_no_frnt_rt_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Healy Chapel - Aurora, Illinois](prairie_arch_images/flw_Aurora_Healy_Chapel_wst2_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Henry J. Cooper House, 729 West Downer Place, Aurora, Illinois Designer unknown, c. 1909 | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Henry Cooper House - Prairie Architecture on McNees.org](prairie_arch_images/flw_aurora_henry_cooper_hse_small.jpg) | | ![Henry Cooper House - Aurora, Illinois](prairie_arch_images/flw_aurora_henry_cooper_hse_se_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Henry Cooper House - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/flw_Aurora_Henry_Cooper_hse_wst_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | German American Bank Building 1 South Broadway, Aurora, Illinois George G. Elmslie & Associates, 1922 | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_Aurora_germ_am_bank_1_so_broadway_nw_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite](prairie_arch_images/prairie_arch_aurora_Germ_Am_Bank_1_so_Broadway_no-ea_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_germ_am_bank_1_so_broadway_no_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Old Second National Bank at 2 So River on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_front_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Old Second National Bank at 37 So River on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_light-windows_so_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Old Second Bank at 37 So River St on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_decor_winds_so_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Old Second National Bank, Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_second_bank_ea_so_wins_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Old Second National Bank - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_se_corner_blu_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Old Second National Bank, Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_so-ea_2_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Old Second National Bank in Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_so_cntr_bl_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Old Second National Bank at 37 So. River St on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_decor_so_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Old Second National Bank at 37 So River St on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_37_so_river_se_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Old Second National Bank at 37 So River St on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_37_so_river_so_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Old Second National Bank - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_second_bank_so_wins_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Old Second National Bank - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_2nd_bank_so-ea_windows_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Old Second National Bank - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_2nd_natl_bank_so_walk-wall_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Old Second National Bank, Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_second_bank_clock_se_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Old Second National Bank - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_so_ea_crnr_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Old Second National Bank - Aurora, IL](prairie_arch_images/il-sub-chi/prairie_architecture_aurora_old_second_natl_bank_se_cornice_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | The Keystone Building 30 South Stolp Avenue, Aurora, Illinois George G. Elmslie & Associates, 1923 | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Praiire architecture in Aurora, IL Keystone Building 30 So Stolp on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_keystone_bldg_30_so_stolp_we_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Keystone Building on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_keystone_bldg_30_stolp_decor_light_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Keystone Building at 30 Stolp St on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_keystone_bldg_30_so_stolp_decor_light-2_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Keystone Building at 30 So Stolp on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_keystone_bldg_decor_3_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Keystone Building at 30 So Stolp on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_keystone_bldg_30_s_stolp_we-c_facade_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Keystone Building on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_keystone_bldg_30_so_stolp_facade_nw_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Aurora, IL - Keystone Building at 30 So. Stolp St on Rick's McNees.org/wrightsite/](prairie_arch_images/prairie-arch_aurora_keystone_bldg_flag_cornice_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | | ![](../../travelsite/trips/Chicago/img_bullet_flw.gif) | Joliet | | | | | | | | | House at 900 W. Western Avenue, Joliet, Illinois - designer unknown | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Prairie architecture in Joliet, IL on McNees.org/wrightsite](prairie_arch_images/prairie_arch_joliet_900_w_western_ne_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Joliet, IL on McNees.org/wrightsite](prairie_arch_images/prairie_arch_joliet_900_w_western_so_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Joliet, IL on McNees.org/wrightsite](prairie_arch_images/prairie_arch_joliet_900_w_western_nw_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Joliet, IL on McNees.org/wrightsite](prairie_arch_images/prairie_arch_joliet_900_w_western_ea_ne_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | Harwood House at 950 W. Western Avenue, Joliet, Illinois - Spencer & Powers | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Prairie architecture in Joliet, IL on McNees.org](prairie_arch_images/prairie_arch_950_w_western_ne_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Joliet, IL on McNees.org/wrightsite](prairie_arch_images/prairie_arch_joliet_950_w_western_no_remc_small.jpg) | | ![Prairie architecture in Joliet, IL on McNees.org/wrightsite](prairie_arch_images/prairie_arch_joliet_950_w_western_nw_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Forester's Cottage ? - House at 1919 East Highland Park Drive, Joliet, Illinois - Robert Spencer ? | | | | | | | | | | | | ![Prairie architecture in Joliet Illinois on McNees.org/wright-site](prairie_arch_images/prairie_arch_joliet_1919_e_highland_park_remc_small.jpg) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This page lasted updated 12/17/17 . |
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