ABSTRACT
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; completed 1910 Chicago, Illinois When Frederick Robie went to Frank Lloyd Wright in the winter of 1908 for a house
on fashionable Woodlawn Avenue at the corner of Fifty-eighth Street in Chicago, Robie worked with his father, who among other things was a supplier of parts to the growing automobile industry. Like Wright, Robie was fascinated with the new machine and even planned to open his own automobile factory. This surely explains the three garages (and no stable) that Wright incorporated into Robie’s house. Preliminary plans for Robie House were completed in November 1908, with working (or contract) drawings following in March 1909. Construction began in the spring of 1909 and ended in the early winter of 1910. The house was furnished between September 1909 and May 1910.
