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Robert and Elizabeth Muirhead House
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The Robert and Elizabeth Muirhead House, a historic farmhouse northeast of Plato Center, Illinois, was built between 1951 and 1953 from a Frank Lloyd Wright design commissioned after the Muirheads met him at Taliesin in 1948. Created in Wright’s Usonian style for modest, distinctly American homes, the one-story house reflects the flat Illinois landscape through a pronounced horizontal form. Its exterior features rows of casement windows and a wooden parapet along the roofline, while the interior uses a subdued entrance, floor-to-ceiling windows, and connected yet contrasting spaces. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016, it is a late example of Wright’s residential architecture.
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