{"nrhp_refnum":"70000239","name":"Gale, Mrs. Thomas H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6 Elizabeth Ct.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oak Park","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.89185099200006,"lon":-87.79851272399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small private residence at 6 Elizabeth Court in Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and dated to 1909.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of Wright's most successful small house designs and a milestone in early modern architecture. It was designed during the most productive part of his Prairie House period. It is also seen as a forerunner of later Wright houses leading to Fallingwater in 1936. It sits in an area with the greatest concentration of buildings by Wright and his contemporaries.","narrative":"Built in 1909 at 6 Elizabeth Court in Oak Park, Illinois, this compact house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright during the most productive years of his Prairie House period. Its plan is a set of interlocking rectilinear forms arranged around a central fireplace core. The nomination describes it as one of his most successful small house designs and as a forerunner of later works that led to Fallingwater in Pennsylvania in 1936. Numerous authorities have cited it as a milestone in the development of early modern architecture. The original owner and his daughter lived there until 1962, when new owners acquired it and carefully restored it to its original condition. It remains in excellent, unaltered condition on its original site and is occasionally opened to visitors. Its setting in Oak Park places it in an area with the greatest concentration of buildings by Wright and his contemporaries anywhere in the world.","period_of_significance":"20th Century; specific date 1909","architect_builder":"Frank Lloyd Wright","architectural_style":"Prairie House","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site; restored in 1962 and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.556293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/8922/28892204/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/70000239.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000239/98e8bb7582-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000239/98e8bb7582-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.5","author":"IvoShandor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_Park_Il_Mrs._Gale_House4.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">IvoShandor</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_Park_Il_Mrs._Gale_House4.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"08001096","name":"Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/frank-lloyd-wright-prairie-school-of-architecture-historic-district-boundary-inc-08001096/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892204","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Gale_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239192"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/gale-mrs-thomas-h-house-70000239/"}