A triple-threat Prairie Style property goes up for sale: Wilmette house has a cottage linked to Wright and Schindler, researchers say

It's not uncommon for a Prairie Style house designed by a follower of Frank Lloyd Wright to go on the market.What's unusual about the Prairie Style house in north suburban Wilmette that's up for sale is that architectural sleuths say a cottage at the rear of the property has links to both Wright and the Austrian emigre Rudolph Schindler, who was working for Wright at the time and would eventually become a significant modernist architect in his own right.The main house, located at 1318 Isabella St., was designed by John...

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Published By: Cityscapes - Monday, 20 February