{"nrhp_refnum":"99000632","name":"Tomek, F.F., House","other_names":["The Ship House","See also:Riverside Landscape Architecture District"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"150 Nuttall Road","address_restricted":false,"city":"Riverside","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.832184332000054,"lon":-87.81715839899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-01-20","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1999-01-20","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-family Prairie School house at 150 Nuttall Road in Riverside, Cook County, Illinois, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1907 for Ferdinand Frederick Tomek. Barry Byrne executed the design.","why_significant":"The house is significant as an example of Wright's early Prairie School work, and the form marks Criterion C. It has the first long cantilevered roof of Wright's career, along with art glass windows, concealed radiators and flowing interior spaces. It also sits in Olmsted's planned suburb of Riverside, and it retains strong design integrity after long restoration.","narrative":"Built in 1907 for Ferdinand Frederick Tomek, who worked for a firm dealing in wooden moldings and picture frames, this stucco house at the corner of Nuttall and Bartram Roads in Riverside, Illinois, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and carried out by Barry Byrne. It is a Prairie School work with cedar trim, a low hipped roof and a long horizontal base broken by pilasters. Its east cantilever, extending fourteen feet unsupported, was the first of its kind in Wright's career. Inside, the living and dining rooms flow together, lit by bands of art glass windows, with radiators hidden behind oak grilles and combination gas and electric fixtures. The house stands beside Olmsted's Long Common, in a suburb that matched Wright's ideals. It has had only five owners since 1907. A restoration lasting nineteen years repaired windows, roofing and the cantilever, and a preservation easement was donated in 1993. The house keeps its design integrity and is rated nationally significant.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frank Lloyd Wright (designer); Barry Byrne (executed the design)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Early Modern, Prairie School","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still a single-family dwelling; extensively restored by recent owners, and a preservation easement was donated in 1993.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.428996-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/26/8915/28891526/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/99000632_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000632/6b09f54149-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000632/6b09f54149-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TomekHouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08 at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TomekHouse.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"69000055","name":"Riverside Landscape Architecture District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/riverside-landscape-architecture-district-69000055/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891526","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._F._Tomek_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5423889"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/tomek-f-f-house-99000632/"}