Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio

The house was all restored and we can visit most of the rooms. They were able to find furniture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and also paintings of the time. The windows are all preserved and really beautiful. Some of the floors were also restored to be as in the original house. It looks fantastic and one can have a great perspective on the work of the architect. Also, the guide is extremely polite and has a lot of knowledge about the place. She offers great insights on the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Excellent tour of his famous studio and home in Oak Park! Our tour guide was very knowledgeable, somewhat humorous and the interior is exquisite to see in person. The tour was packed and there were a couple others going on, so I would recommend buying tickets in advance on the website. There is also a great audio self guided walking tour that gives you insights to the other home he designed in the area. Interesting to learn facts about this famed architect and his family life. I had no idea his real middle name was Lincoln not Lloyd or that he had so many children with his wife, Katherine. Very cool to see original furniture and the home intact! I highly recommend going to check this out!

We had pre-purchased tickets but not reserved a time. Recommend booking tickets directly through the museum rather than through third party. We only had to wait 10 minutes to get the next tour, as they had scheduled multiple extra tours owing to it being so busy. The staff were super friendly and helpful, gave clear directions and guidance, and our tour guide was both knowledgeable and enthusiastic. It's a great tour, we'll worth the time, and don't miss the self guided neighborhood walk while you are there!

So amazing to learn the history and evolution of the home and studio. The architecture was amazing, I loved the details in the different windows, and how he created intentional spaces within spaces space. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable, and I learned more than I expected.

Do not miss it! The opening hours are a bit longer than what can be found on the internet, but do reserve tickets in advance. The district itself is full of his houses and also a church, moreover Hemingway's birth place. The house and studio inside out was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it has several interesting details, which I would not tell, go and see for yourself. The gift shop is also a must!

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio is a must if you are even passingly interested in architecture or design or the history of why modern architecture looks the way it does. There are guided tours of the house and self guided walking tours of the neighborhood. Both are worth it! The tours are aimed at the general public but seeing the house and studio is also a treat for Wright fans. If you go in the afternoon when the sun is hitting the house from the sides you will get to see the effect of the windows at their most dramatic, where as mid day will show off the incredible skylights.

I can't say enough about the home and studio. I've visited numerous times and never tire of it. A guided tour is definitely worth it, but walking through independently, including exploring the exterior, is also rewarding. Go on "slow" days for the optimal experiance.

Attended in June of 2024, during the 50th anniversary celebration for the Foundation. The tour guide was very attentive and informative. Afterwards, it is easy to walk around and see some of the other homes that Wright designed in Oak Park.

喜歡建築的人ㄧ定會來看Frank Lioyd Wright 的設計。我們這次參加的是Home&Studio tour. 網站上可以選不同的tour. Both interior and outdoor neighborhoods walking tour 都很值的看。 我們從home & studio 開始， tour guided 的講解讓我們對這位當代建築師有充份的瞭解。 建築風格在去日本後影響他對室內空間的運用和設計。但仍保持他對幾何圖型運用的特長。 親自來實地參觀對比例的感受更加深刻。室內的參觀會更明白他的空間運用和採光照明的設計。冬天和夏季因為光線不同， 光透過他獨有的窗戶設計會投射出不同的陰影。很值的來看看！ People who like architecture will definitely come to see the design of Frank Lioyd Wright. We are participating in the Home&Studio tour this time. You can choose different tours on the website. Both interior and outdoor neighborhoods walking tour are worth seeing. We decided to start with home & studio, and the tour guided explanation gives us a full understanding of this contemporary architect. The architectural style influenced his use and design of indoor space after going to Japan. But he still maintains his specialty in the use of geometric patterns. I have a deeper feeling about the proportion when I come to the field in person. The indoor visit will better understand his space use and lighting design. Because the light is different in winter and summer, the light will cast different shadows through his unique window design. It's worth a look!

Visiting the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is practically a rite of passage for anyone who grew up in Oak Park. I remember taking the tour during grade school, just like everyone else. I grew up in Oak Park, not far from the studio. You can visit the studio and take a tour, but it's recommended to purchase tickets online in advance. There are different options, including a home tour and an outdoor guided tour, with prices varying depending on what you choose. It's best to check the website for details. We had a fantastic tour guide who took us through all the rooms, and it brought back so many memories of that visit from years ago. This time, I brought my husband, who had never been before. Frank Lloyd Wright had a storied career and was quite a character. Beyond his home and studio here, there's the Robie House near the University of Chicago and numerous other homes he or his staff designed in Oak Park and beyond. Everything in his homes had a specific purpose, and while some might consider the designs plain, they are as modern today as they were back then. Many of the pieces inside are original or have been reclaimed by the society from family members. The foundation also undertook significant renovations when they acquired the property. After the tour, be sure to check out the gift shop, which has a great selection of items like mugs, postcards, ornaments, and more. If you're in the area, visiting the studio is a must. Take some time to explore the surrounding blocks, too, as you'll find other homes Wright designed. Just keep in mind that parking is on the street, as it's a residential neighborhood.

Fabulous tour! Joan was a great and knowledgeable guide. Location is great as lots of other FLW homes are around. Gift shop is excellent and offers a wide variety of goods. Tour was the perfect length. Photos are allowed which is also fantastic. Definitely makes me want to explore other FLW designs in Chicago!

I have been a huge fan of Frank Lloyd Wright for many years. Arguably the greatest American architect of all time, FLW has properties that he has designed spread out all throughout the US. The cool thing about Chicago? It has the largest grouping of FLW homes in the country. Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is located in Oak Park (a suburb of Chicago). I bought my tickets online a few days in advance and made my way on a weekday afternoon. Located in a residential neighborhood, I parked for free on a side street. I started off with a tour of FLW's Home and Studio. He lived here for quite a few years back when he was alive. Our tour guide did a great job as we toured both the exterior and interior of the home. He shared many nuggets about FLW, his career, and his family. As well as interesting facts about each room in terms of the architectural techniques used. The tour takes about an hour. After you're done with your tour, you'll arrive at the gift shop. They have some cool gifts so it's worth checking out. I purchased a FLW bookmark. From there, I highly recommend paying for the self-guided audio tour. You're given a headset and a paper to do a walking tour of your own. During your walking tour, which is close to FLW Home and Studio, you'll see eight or so homes that FLW designed in the neighborhood. You'll learn about each home through the audio tour and the piece of paper that is provided to you. It's a great addition to the experience and shouldn't be missed! Frank Lloyd Wright was known for incorporating nature and sunlight into his designs as well as the use of symmetry. It's a unique approach to architecture and he has made such an impact in the industry. While not in Chicago proper, it was a doable drive from the bed and breakfast I stayed at. It ended up being one of my favorite experiences during my Chicago trip.

Touring Wright's home and studio was a good time, but I wouldn't put in the extra few bucks for the walk around the neighborhood. You get very limited information and are looking at the houses from the sidewalk. You might as well just google them (they're all on a single block) and take yourself.

Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio. Located in Oak Park, near other FLW projects and the Ernest Hemingway birth home, Tours are 20-30 dollars, depending on whether or not you take the outdoor audio tour. The interior tour is 60 minutes (ours ran longer) and the outdoor audio tour is about 45 minutes. Wright designed this home when he was young and just starting a family, early in his career, when he was still an apprentice. The neat thing about this is that you see how he evolved as an architect. Wright changed this home many times, from adding walls, changing windows, adding different veneers to wall surfaces. You also learn some about Wright's mildly scandalous personal life--leaving his wife, running off to Paris, lovers and wives, spats with associates. You also see FLW the father and the creative. You really get to know the foundation of FLW and get to see some great architecture. Lots of photo ops. The children's playroom is amazing! They have a great gift shop and the volunteer docent was great. Again, you can make a history day out of this area of Oak Park.

Green Neighborhood ...people are are very aware of this beautiful neighborhood...the neighborhood is beautifully cared for and protected.... I m love ing the looking forward to my new home here I'm excited for the future to this beautiful home at last, my home and family is all that matters for me

I wasn't planning on taking this to her about my parents are in town and they took us. I'm an engineer, not an architecture guy, but the tour was very interesting. I certainly learned more about Frank Lloyd Wright than I ever thought I would know. All of the docents were very helpful and knowledgeable. Our tour guide was engaged and genuinely wanted us to learn, which is not surprising because they were a volunteer. It was a lot of standing so if that's hard on you, you might have some trouble.

Eyewitness Tour Book Guide told us to get tickets at the Visitor Center on Lake St. the visitor center has been closed and you need to get tickets at the FLE home and studio at 931 Chicago ave. We did the inside home tour which was great but the outside self guided tour was worth it but not for the price. The paper map was very confusing since not all the side streets have street signs. The addresses have small lettering so that added to the difficulty. The museum shop does sell cold bottled water which is refreshing on a hot day, however, the refrigerator is not clearly marked. Finally if you go on the tour there are no places to sit. You'll be standing for 60 minutes .

Went here on the hour long tour and learned a lot about the historic house from our very knowledgeable tour guide. It was great to understand more about his architectural style and history of the late 19th century. This was definitely a unique experience which inspires me to learn about the other 24 Frank Lloyd Wright structures in Oak Park in the future.

Sorta a bonus stop on our last day in Chicago. We did an on line search of things to do and found this. Ticket for the home studio tour were like 20$ and it was worth it. Our guide was very knowledgeable and was able to answer questions. The home is thoughtfully preserved and presented. The tour flowed from one room to another and had ample space. Folks going on the tour please listen to the instructions at the beginning of the tour. Don't touch things and don't lean on things. An older gentleman in our tour leaned on the wall in almost every room. I cringed when I saw him do this. Especially in the dining room with the fabric covered walls and ceiling. We will need to come back in the summer and do the walking self guided tour when it is warmer and not raining.

This was a bucket list visit, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio lived up to the expectations. FLW was such an extraordinary, complicated, visionary, flawed man, and this tour encompassed all of that. Our tour guide was just about perfect. He told us how he first went on this tour many, many years earlier with this wife. He loved it so much and was so fascinated by FLW that he later went to work for the site. He answered all of our questions, and I learned so much from him. We started outside the home, taking in the windows and comparing it to other nearby homes, and then our guide brought us inside, showing how FLW's aesthetic changed over the course of his career, as seen through the features in his home. The upstairs and especially the playroom, with its seating and recessed piano were my favorite parts. And then we walked over to his studio. Loved to see where so many great structures had their beginnings. The gift shop also had a lot to take in. I ended up going home with a table runner featuring the design of a FLW skylight and a trivet with another of his designs. You can also walk around the beautiful Oak Park neighborhood to see a few more of his homes. I can now say I've been to Fallingwater and now the FLW house. Excited to see even more of his creations through future travels.

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a must-see attraction. My husband and I had a hard time trying to find where we check-in for our tour. Enter through the gift shop and check in at the checkout register. Our tour guide John was tremendous. He took us through over 6,000 square feet of the home that Frank Lloyd Wright designed, built, and lived in. There are so many things to see and learn. John did an excellent job of explaining the history and significance of the home and studio while being funny and entertaining. The hour flew by without me realizing it. It was so much fun. I highly recommend the Frank Lloyd Wright House and Studio for everyone.

The tour guide was wonderful & knowledgeable. It was just a fascinating & educational experience. Highly recommend.

Really neat to see where things really started for Frank Lloyd Wright. I was so surprised when I saw the style of his home. Our tour guide was super informative and told us all about why his home was the style it was. He certainly knew everything there was to know about the property and Frank Lloyd Wright's story. I've now been to three separate Frank Lloyd Wright properties and in each one he has a different wife. I do enjoy hearing about his kind of crazy personal life as well. I always find it especially baffling that he literally never had any money and was always in debt. I also liked learning about his kids and just his overall lifestyle while in the home. The theatre room was especially impressive. Oak park is a really beautiful neighborhood and it was great to walk around after the official tour was over to see other houses he designed. Fair warning though if you need to get back into the city via Uber, it took us a loooonnnggg time to find someone who would pick us up in Oak Park.

Hard to not like this as a FLLW frequenter. Visited here on Wright Plus Walk 2023. The house and studio were the last location during the vent we toured. Really appreciated it and in getting to see the origination of the Frank Lloyd Wright name. The staff was very friendly, the tour guides were information and the different style of house from the prairie style was very interesting to me. Really loved the draft room and the studio areas. Would come back on a regular day. Only deduction is the gift shop was underwhelming.

This tour was of Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park. There was an additional walking tour of the neighborhood houses also designed by FLW that was also very nice. The tour was about 75 minutes and included a lot of really interesting facts in addition to the beautiful designs and architecture. You can book tickets ahead online or when you arrive, if time is not flexible then would suggest booking online ahead as we did have to wait about 2 hours from our arrival to getting into the tour. In that time, we did the neighborhood walking tour which was great and stopped at a nearby coffee shop for a scone and some drinks. It's a lovely area with plenty to do so worth a trip.

It was nice to geek out over FLW's studio and home since I studied architecture in college. The tour is well ran on time with an open dialogue with the house during the tour. The house is well maintained and still has most of the original furniture and decor. Truly remarkable experience if you're into architecture!

Unimpressive house. FLW's ugliest. Sure, it was his earliest work but it's unimpressive. It's basically a workshop of various awkward attempts. Don't play it up. Our guide, an older woman, gushed about how wonderful the house was. Um, it wasn't. It's dark, disjointed, and boring. Other, later designs, in the neighborhood are better. Nothing like Los Angeles, though. Our guide tried to enlist my girlfriend to herd a couple of persistently lagging, entitled, and aloof Europeans (French or Belgian, unfortunately ...) to keep up with the rest of the group. Sorry, lady, that's YOUR job - don't try to offload your responsibilities on your charges. And, please, drop the affected French-accented 'Notre Dame'. You're an American. Speak like one, and stop kissing the asses of European tourists.

This was my second visit to FLW's home and studio in Oak Park; both times were with out-of-town friends. Though I remembered some aspects of the tour, it was enjoyable and educating regardless. The home and studio tour is 45 minutes to 1 hour and well suited for architecture novices. Our tour guide, Margarette, was charming and answered all questions as she led us through the house. Included was the restoration information as well. We learned about how FLW purposefully created his home and studio and the expansions he made throughout the years. I do recommend the walking tour, which is an independent half hour walk down the block from the museum. This can be done either before or after the tour of the main house. Even for those who aren't architecturally minded, the walking tour explains different styles and influences FLW used while working in this area. It helped to visually see examples of FLW's work and understand how he evolved as an architect. For the walking tour, we were given rather antiquated radios, but they worked effectively and the staff did wipe them with a disinfectant wipe before handing them to us. We completed the walking tour sooner than expected, and we were able to bump up our house tour time at the last minute. The staff in the gift shop couldn't have been lovelier! Speaking of, the gift shop contains so many interesting FLW-related items. Trivets, socks, ornaments, bookmarks, lamps, wrapping paper! It's hard not to buy out the whole gift shop. As a side note, parking can be difficult at this location, depending on the day and time your tour is. The home and studio is close to downtown Oak Park, so only nearby parallel parking is available. We went on a chilly day and very early in the day, so we had no problem finding a spot. But something to keep in mind nevertheless.

Great tour of FLW's home and office. Fascinating. Do the walking tour after the home tour. We had a great docent.

Totally worth the tour! The gift shop has great, unique gifts, too. Because I have spent so much time in Phoenix, I was well-accquainted with Wright's Phoenix homes, but not as much with where he and his Prairie architecture all began, his home in Wisconsin and life in Chicago. I was excited to see that all of our tour group, except the two of us, were international visitors. Our tour guide, coincidentally also named Frank, was extremely knowledgeable and a great guide. I was sad there were not more opportunities to ask questions, since there was so much to cover in a short time. He put many of Wright's theories and reasons for success into vivid perspective during the tour of his home and through his life as an architect in Chicago. We learned the tell-tale stamp of a Frank Lloyd Wright building, and the five pillars most important to Wright in his creation (the tour guide wanted to be sure we memorized this ;) so we did. Then sent us on our way to wander the neighboring areas to find more Wright homes and architecture, like Unity Temple.

What a fun afternoon my friend and I had on our tour! After reading Loving Frank, we knew we had to go on this tour!! The tour was packed with amazing Information! I was in awe with the beauty of the home and how informed the tour guide was. I suggest purchasing tickets ahead of time online because they do sell out. There is plenty of street parking. You check in at the gift shop, where they have some great souvenirs to purchase. If the weather is nice you can wait on the outdoor patio for your tour to start. I would definitely recommend this tour! It's in downtown Oak Park so there are some amazing restaurants close by to dine at afterwards!

This is a fun and interesting tour. Our guide, Irene was great. I suggest taking the earliest tour available. We were able to easily find an Uber from Chicago to the location and vice versa. This was the highlight of my trip.

Loved this tour! We had a wonderful guide who had a lot of great information. The home and studio are beautiful and a must-see for any Wright fans.

I visited Chicago this past weekend with some family. When I was planning and researching the trip, I remembered taking this tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park home and studio when my dad took me to Chicago when I was 14 or so. It made an impression on me as a child, and I wanted to take the tour again. No one else in my group had ever taken the tour (and I would say only one of the three were FLW fans before the tour). And it lived up to the memory of that experience more than 15 years ago! First thing to know - the FLW Home and Studio isn't in Chicago proper. It's in Oak Park. Good news? It's a very short drive or a pretty short L ride. We took the train and walked through Oak Park and - on a nice day - it's a lovely walk. We bought our tickets online a few weeks before, because FLW has groupies, and I've tried to tour a couple of houses on other trips (am I a groupie myself?) and been very disappointed when I learned they were sold out. But we walked into the gift shop, picked up our tickets, and then waited in the courtyard for our tour to begin. Our tour guide was Michael, and he was absolutely wonderful. You could tell that he loved FLW architecture and that the was excited to share what he knew about the two buildings (the home and the studio). He definitely imparted passion for these two buildings and FLW architecture generally! The tour starts in the house (FLW's bedroom, the kids' bedrooms, the dining room, etc.) and ends in the studio. When you walk in, there's just something about this place. But with Michael's expert knowledge, you learn why FLW did X rather than Y and what his inspiration was. I think it's very easy to take architecture for granted. And taking a tour of this home/studio or another FLW building (they're all over) is a great gateway to exploring architecture. I was really moved by the beauty and thoughtfulness of the spaces we saw. I've done this tour twice, and I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. My brother (the other FLW fan in the group) loved the tour as well and decided to visit another FLW house in Chicago (the Robie House) later on during the trip (he stayed longer than me, so I missed it). My mother and our family friend (not FLW fans prior to the tour) thought it was one of the most interesting things we did throughout our time in Chicago! Great experience for the FLW groupie, architecture junkie, or for people that don't think they're into architecture as well!

Super cool museum tour of architecture's demigod Frank Lloyd Wright house and studio! This place is cool and the whole area is pretty amazing. There's so much to see here if you dig his style. There's houses all over the neighborhood designed by him and google maps made them easy to find. The tour itself is pretty great, you get to see his designs and ideas for a living space. It's crazy these were designed in so long ago and the detail is amazing. It goes for about an hour and there is a good amount of covid precautions in place. Since the tour groups are smaller due to covid I would totes suggest buying tour tickets online instead of buying at the place. Even still they seem to offer tours every half hour to that helps as well. Definitely a lot of history to soak up here and the whole area is a great place to walk around!

Great site to see, wonderful tour guides, and easy use of automated neighborhood tour. A beautiful and enriching time.

HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL this was a wonderful and extravagant experience. this house is unreal in its grandeur and beauty. i fell to my knees and cried in this house because of how BREATHTAKING it is!!!! religious experience fr. made my knees shake and my palms sweat. a must see.

If you have any interest in FLW, this is a must-see. The studio is amazing. The family living area a delight. The neighborhood setting is quaint.

In compare to my visit to Falling Water at Pittsburgh, this is just above average house. Obviously this house is his own home. He do not have all the money to build his house to luxury package compared to Falling Water. This is just simply a home for his family and his studio. The house feel like Japanese culture influenced. It has the little things that functions of the space. I cannot imagine house that has less room to grew his 6 children. Nothing fancy about the house. I do like the playroom to insert their piano to create more play room. Each room has good lighting and skylight. But the studio do have the fancy structure design with octagonal roof with tension holding roof. This will not work at Florida since we have hurricane. It work at Chicago since most of the load is gravity load. The studio has more detail and worth a visit.

This was an awesome tour! Less than $20 per adult for a ticket. It was definitely worth a trip to Oak Park and getting a detailed account of his home and first studio. My favorites were 1) the children's playroom with everything built according to their size (and the grand piano that he hid the back of by suspending it over the staircase) and 2) the octagonal office in his studio, with the octagon shape being echoed again and again in different iterations going up. The tour guide did a great job of explaining not only Frank Lloyd Wright's importance to the history of American architecture but also his family life, finances, and the beginning of his career. I thought it was fun to learn about some of his personality traits, too, like how he felt defensive about his height and how he pridefully proclaimed that he was the best architect in the world. Even if you're not a FLW fan, this would be a cool tour to take!

I've visited the FLW home and studio many times over the years and I find the home a beautiful showcase of Oak Park history. The home has fun nooks and crannies and I learn something new every time I visit. The house has been part of the Chicago Architectural Center Open House also - always a good visit (is you're fast, they also have the Robie House open). There's also a cute gift shop - for all of your FLW needs.

If you like architecture or Chicage history, the Frank Lloyd Wright House tour and Neighborhood Walking tour are a must. The house tour takes about an hour and you are led by a knowledgeable tour guide. The guide is primarily English, and there are other languages available. The walking tour is self guided audio tour. There are 10 houses and it is at your own pace. It is about 1/4 mile on paved sidewalk. Suitable for all mobility abilities, and audio is in many languages. You can also purchase a map that contains seversl more houses.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a beautiful, historic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in Oak Park. And it's not just any beautiful, historic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house--it's the one he designed when he was 22 (what the fuck), where he lived for years with his first wife and their six kids (definitely pulling this from Wikipedia). I actually visited five years ago, during a trip to Chicago in 2014, but I forgot to review the place and then passed by it multiple times when I was staying in Oak Park last month. You don't need to know this, but this whole paragraph is basically devoted to my Yelp OCD, and I'm just sorry that you're still reading it. Anyway, the house was gorgeous, of course. We didn't take a tour (I would like to do that one day; looking at the photos, I don't think we saw the whole house), but we did walk around and browse the gift shop, which was worth visiting on its own. Frank Lloyd Wright shit makes for great museum store kinds of gift items. We bought a picture frame, which I'm now realizing has gone unused for five years because we never print pictures. If you find yourself in or near Oak Park, the Frank Lloyd Wright Home is definitely worth seeing. It's a cool place, both inside and out. I'd like to spend more time there next time I'm in town.

I have known this famous architect by designing Japanese Prestigious hotel. Visiting here I was so impressed of his work.

A great visit to undeniably one of the greatest architects home and studio . How can you not visit ?

Loved it!! We had a little debate about whether to leave downtown Chicago and spend the majority of a day in Oak Park. I'm so glad we did. I'm a fan of 20th c architecture, FLW, and historic homes, so this tour was perfect fit. The price is a little steep especially if you're bringing a family or paying for multiple adults, so we decided to forego the paid walking tour option (that includes a headset) and just do the guided tour of the house and studio. We opted instead to walk the block ourselves afterwards, it was a gorgeous day, and just chat about what we saw. We also decided not to pay the extra fee to take photos inside as there were plenty of books and cards in the shop if we needed visual reminders of the visit. The house and studio are pristinely preserved. It almost feels as if the family has just left for a moment and yum popped in to peek at the inside. Our guide was very interesting and her tour was quite polished. Although I felt a bit hurried at times (they get a lot of people though the door each hour), I thoroughly enjoyed the tour.

Well worth a drive out to Oak Park if you are visiting Chicago. Great for the FLW fan and/or architecture fan. We bought our home tour tickets in advance, arrived at the gift shop just a few minutes before our tour and had the opportunity to lock up coats and bags (optional but I recommend as there are some tight spaces in the house). Our guide was friendly, full of great knowledge and answered all of our questions. One question she wasn't 100% sure about but went and sought out an expert after the tour for the answer. That's service! The home is very unique and because of several expansions in the time FLW lived there, the home has a lots of interesting stories. Don't forget to check out the surrounding neighborhood where there are several other privately-owned FLW houses. If it weren't a snowy and slick day out, we would have walked around more and maybe have visited the temple he designed that is also close by. Enjoy your visit!

Okay. Neat to see the place and it definately is a beautiful house, just was constantly rushed out and told to "keep it moving" because we had other tour groups behind us. Great. Other than that it was neat to see and I'm glad I went. No need to go again, as it is a "one and done" but a little more patience would have been nice. Especially those of us who are driving long distances...ya know at $6.00 plus a gallon.

With it being such a gross, rainy day I was hesitant about making the drive to Oak Park for the holiday tour at the Frank Lloyd Wright house, but I was so glad I made the visit. The free hot cocoa and cookies in the gift shop (today only) and then the free tour that followed was just lovely. The tour guides are so knowledgeable and gave all sorts of background on how Frank Llyod Weight developed his prairie style. The foundation has done a great job with the restoration of the house, and the Christmas decorations bwere beautiful. This was a wonderful place to visit for a short trip, and the free holiday tour/cocoa made it all the more worthwhile!

Went to the inside tour of the home and studio. The tour was informative and very interesting. The tour guide and people working in the museum shop were extremely nice, friendly and accommodating. Highly recommend!

I've done several FLW tours across America, including others in Chicago, and this one did not disappoint. In the Oak Park neighborhood the Home and Studio and city tours run daily. The nearby Unity Temple is closed on Sunday. The home and studio tour is an hour long and gives a good view of both properties including some background on FLW, the use of the properties throughout time and of course the architecturally significant features in the properties. The guide was very knowledgeable and was a good presenter. The guide mentioned that the guides write their own tour so going on the tour again might unearth more interesting facts or a different angle on the home. Another nice service is that they have cabinets to lock up luggage and backups in while you go on the tour - no charge. So feel free to stop by on the way to or from the airport if you're a visitor. ​

Finally made it out to Oak Park to see the Wright Home and Studio - the Wright family's home for many decades. If you are a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright's work, this house is not to be missed! The house is located in a quiet neighborhood in Oak Park, surrounded by lots of beautiful trees and gardens. It was very easy to find and street parking was plentiful (I was there on a Saturday, so I assume parking must be easy most days!). The house itself was not what I was expecting. While it certainly stands out amongst the Victorian homes surrounding it, the Wright Home is not in the famous prairie style. However, the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright is everywhere, most notably in his signature windows, which are gorgeous! It was really fascinating to see all of these little details around the home that hint at his developing architectural style. The tour guides were wonderful and filled with lots of great facts and stories. Masks are no longer required for vaccinated people, and the guides did a great job of making everyone feel comfortable with wearing masks or not. The tour costs $20, with the option to donate more to support the trust. I HIGHLY recommend this tour to any FLW fan, but also to anyone who enjoys seeing beautifully restored old homes. It was a great tour!

Great your. Wonderful example of FLW's life and career. The docents are all very knowledgeable.

Prairie architecture style was kind of born in Oak Park and it is probably a capitol of the Prairie style in the World. Just for that single reason, one who likes art and architecture should visit Oak Park and Frank Lloyd Wright home/studio. I do not want to dwell on the house as the Forest Drive (and adjacent street) guided tour will give you more about brilliant ideas that were developed around of turn of the 19th century. Hiden entrances and shear aesthetics that stood time is a proof that it was worth it. There is a sense that you are witnessing something special when you see these marvelous houses on the Forest Drive and the gossipy stories about not-so-nice Frank's mom have no effect on me. He was bold and he was thoughtful and I can get over his fussiness with the owners. It was well worth visiting it.

Beautiful. Don't miss the tour if you're in oak park. The light, the spaces, the ingenious design to fit his family's life will inspire. Lots of unexpected touches- a tree growing through the house. The back of a piano hacked off so it would fit just right. All of the furniture designed specifically for the house. I'm not an architectural expert as you can tell. But the house and studio are a fascinating look into a genius' mind.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed several buildings in this section of Oak Park, Illinois, which also includes his home and studio. It was a wonderful experience to just walk through the neighborhood for a while and look around. Taking a walk, you realize just how versatile Frank Lloyd Wright was. The first Wright design I ever encountered in person is the Guggenheim museum, a monument of abstraction, modernism and the retro future. But when you walk through Wright's old neighborhood in Oak Park, you get a totally different view of Wright's architectural genius and oeuvre. Definitely recommend a visit to Wright's old neighborhood to anyone visiting the Chicago area.

On a perfect sparkling day, we make a day trip from Chicago to see the Frank Lloyd historic sites in Oak Park, Ill. I can't imagine a better day trip. The historic home & studio tour is well organized. You have enough time to take in all of the information about this historic site. We also signed on for the historic home walking tour after our lunch. We are very glad that we set aside time to make this tour. This is a great opportunity to view the groundbreaking work of a true American genius. A tour not to be missed.