| Sherman Booth House | |
|---|---|
 Summer 1919 | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Prairie School |
| Town or city | Glencoe, IL |
| Coordinates | 42°08′42″N87°45′51″W / 42.144963°N 87.764240°W |
| Completed | 1916 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 3 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Main contractor | H. A. Peters and Company |
| Designations | Glencoe Honorary Landmark: April 9, 1993 [1] |
The Sherman Booth House is a Prairie Style house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright at 265 Sylvan Road in Glencoe, IL. The house was built as the primary residence for the family of Elizabeth K and Sherman M Booth II in 1916. [2] Sherman Booth II was an attorney at the time for Wright. The house is the largest of six Wright-designed Prairie Style homes in the Ravine Bluffs Development. [3]
Wright had originally designed a grander vision for the Booths in 1911 (known as Scheme 1 [4] ), but due to the exorbitant cost ($125,000 in 1910) and a financial downturn in the Booths fortunes, he redesigned two existing structures in the design that was built (Scheme 2).
