Sunday, March 17, 2013

Can you identify this house?



Do you recognize this house?  It appeared on the MSN News briefs this morning for an article about America's Wealthiest Neighborhoods.  It was the lead picture for the article.  A review of the article indicated it was tied to the town of Kenilworth Ill. but it was not referenced in the article at all.  It sure looks like a Wright designed home and it basically is in his back yard.  However, the listing of Wright houses in Ill. lists only one in Kenilworth and this one is not it.  Anyone of our Wright experts out there know anything about this picture or is my sense of Wright design skewed and this is just some knock-off?    Can you at least see the design characteristics that caused me to think Wright?  Help appreciated here, please.. 

10 comments:

  1. Jim/ArtofGardening.orgMarch 17, 2013 at 3:43 PM

    It's the 1911 Oscar Balch House in Oak Park, Ill. Visit http://www.thefranklloydwrighttour.com/apps/blog/show/11013886-oscar-balch-house-frank-lloyd-wright-1911

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  2. UnknownMarch 17, 2013 at 9:54 PM

    Nice job Jim; you found it! Incorrectly labeled locationwise on the news feed, but it is definitely the Balch house, spiffed up a bit from other published photos of the house. Good sleuthing on your part and nice to know that my eye was correct. But in Oak Park as opposed to being the lead photo for Kenilworth. At least they got the state right. George

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  3. UnknownMarch 18, 2013 at 8:02 AM

    Yes, nice sleuthing Jim. Although the house isn't in Kenilworth, it is ON Kenilworth Ave. in Oak Park, so MSN got it partly right. :-)

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  4. UnknownMarch 18, 2013 at 10:00 AM

    It would have been nice if they had identified it as an FLW designed house, but then, they have so many of them there maybe they don't think it is necessary or significant!

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  5. JCharlierMarch 19, 2013 at 7:03 PM

    My secret? Open a new window to Google. Click on the word "images" in the upper right. Go back to your original window. Click and hold on the photo of the house - keep holding down and drag over to the text box on the Google page until it says, "Drop image here." Similar images and the links they're on will appear. It's not fool proof, but I do it all the time when I'm looking for where images came from.

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  6. UnknownMarch 22, 2013 at 11:10 PM

    thanks Jim, sounds complicated but I will try doing that, might be over my computer impaired head to handle though. G

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  7. AnonymousApril 8, 2013 at 9:21 PM

    http://riverforest.suntimes.com/news/12851779-418/restored-balch-house-must-see-on-wright-housewalk.html

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  8. AnonymousApril 8, 2013 at 9:22 PM

    Check out the above link for details.

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  9. AnonymousApril 8, 2013 at 9:23 PM

    Another great link,,,the beginning of it anyhow.

    https://www.google.ca/search?q=laura+gale+house+oak+park+il&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=cYO&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Y2tjUffmJcK6yQG4q4DADA&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1418&bih=657

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  10. UnknownApril 20, 2013 at 9:45 PM

    thanks for the links!

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