Prairie-Style House, English Midlands
This detached house incorporates features of what has come to be known as the “Prairie School” of house design, which was evolved by the American master architect Frank Lloyd Wright as long ago as 1900. Many much larger houses, incorporating the same basic principles of design, but developed to a greater degree of sophistication, were built in the Mid West of America in the period mainly between 1900 and 1910.
The design shown was actually the work of a prominent local architect in the late 1950’s, and incorporates features to emphasize the horizontal feeling which almost all the early American Prairie-type houses possess: a flat-pitched roof with generous overhang; the continuous windows at the corners of the building, and the prominent canopies and fascias running along front and side of the building; also, the general use of timber construction where possible.
The house has now been designated a listed building, and in view of the historical aspect involved, the illustration has been treated more or less as a record of this unique development.
