John Farson House “Pleasant Home”
217 Home Avenue
Oak Park, Illinois 60302-3101
708/383-2654

Open for tours.

George W. Maher, 1897

Not a Prairie house, but the starting point of a significant career that would run parallel to, and occasionally intersect with, true Prairie School design. Pleasant Home is a thirty-room, 16,000 sq. ft. mansion set on seven acres of land.

Image courtesy of Phil Adams.

References
http://academics.triton.edu/faculty/fheitzman/pleasanthome.html

www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/samples/il/farson.pdf

  

 

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