The Gilmore House aka The Airplane House
This house is classified as a prairie style home. Eugene A. Gilmore was a law professor at UW and had bought this parcel of land with the intentions of having another architect design him a home. After reading an essay written by Mr Wright, as well as an unsatisfactory design from his previous architect, Gilmore commissioned Wright to build him a home.
The first floor of the home includes a library, as well as a living & dinning room.
The second floor of the home has 4 bedrooms.
When we pulled up to the house I noted it was at kind of an angle, after reading into it later I found out Wright did that to create privacy (not uncommon with a Wright house) as well as to take advantage of the morning sun.
This house was given the nickname "The Airplane House" because of the broad straight lines of the design.
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