Prairie Style house in Wilmette has a cottage linked to Wright and Schindler, researchers say; preservationists fear that the homes will be tear-down victims

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 researchers 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 big question about the house and the cottage: Who's going to...

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Published By: Cityscapes - Monday, 20 February