Edmund D. Brigham House

The Edmund D. Brigham House is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at 790 Sheridan Road in Glencoe, Illinois. Wright designed the house circa 1908 for Edmund D. Brigham, a freight agent for the Chicago & North Western Railway, and it was completed the following year. Wright's design is a variation of the one in his article "A Fireproof House for $5000", a concrete home design which he published in the Ladies' Home Journal in 1907. While the Brigham House was the only one of Wright's Fireproof House for $5000 designs actually built with concrete, he would continue to work and experiment with the material throughout his career. The house's Prairie School plan has a central two-story section with one-story wings on either side, several rows of casement windows, and large piers at the corners of the central section and the middle of each wing.[2]

Edmund D. Brigham House
Location790 Sheridan Rd., Glencoe, Illinois
Coordinates42°08′22″N 87°45′18″W
Built1909 (1909)
ArchitectFrank Lloyd Wright
Architectural stylePrairie School
NRHP reference No.16000900[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 2016

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 2016.[1]

References
  1. "National Register of Historic Places Weekly Lists 2017" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  2. Solway, Susan; Yant, Gwen Sommers; Benjamin, Susan (August 1, 2016). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Brigham, Edmund D., House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved September 26, 2020.


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