William and Jessie M. Adams House

The William and Jessie M. Adams House is a Prairie school style house located at 9326 South Pleasant Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

William and Jessie M. Adams House
General information
Location	9326 S. Pleasant Ave.
Construction started	1900
Completed	1901
Chicago Landmark
Designated	June 16, 1994

Description and history

The house was built between 1900 and 1901 by Frank Lloyd Wright. This squarish two-story house with a brick-faced first floor has double-hung windows which Wright usually disdained.^[1]

It was designated a Chicago landmark on June 16, 1994.^[2]

In March 2014, the house was sold for $980,000 after being owned by the same family since 1952.^[3]

See also

• List of Frank Lloyd Wright works

References

1. Frank Lloyd Wright. An Autobiography, new and revised ed. (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1943), p. 143, "[the casement] was not used at that time in the United States, so I lost many clients because I insisted upon it. The client usually wanted to double-hung (the guillotine window) in use then, although it was neither simple nor human."
2. "Adams House". City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. 2003. Retrieved June 26, 2007.
3. LaTrace, A. J. (March 13, 2014). "Landmark Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Home Sells For $980K". Curbed Chicago. Retrieved August 18, 2017.

• Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 (S.048)

41.7240°N 87.6701°W / 41.7240; -87.6701

External links

• The Adams house from the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust website
• Youtube video from an appraiser of the area showing the exterior of the Adams house