14 May slowly but surely, frank lloyd wright’s waller apartments (1895) are being rehabilitated
slowly but surely renovation improvements are happening to frank lloyd wright’s waller apartments (1895).
2022 ans 2026 exterior photographic survey of frank lloyd wright’s edward c. waller apartment buildings (1895), located at 2840-2858 west walnut strteet, chicago, il.
prominent chicago real estate developer edward c. waller commissioned a young frank lloyd wright, then still under 30, to design affordable rental housing soon after wright left adler and sullivan.
the project originally included five connected buildings, each containing four compact one-bedroom apartments with a parlor, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom, for a total of 20 units.
the facades feature yellow-buff brick, arched and lintel entryways, and decorative terra-cotta trim along the roofline. horizontal brick bands unify the buildings and foreshadow the abstract, modern principles that later defined wright’s prairie school style.
the apartments were built alongside francisco terrace apartments, another wright and waller low-income housing project that was demolished in 1974. after a fire destroyed one of the central units in 1968, four of the original five structures remained.
