European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The late architect s studio and Home i Oak Park Iii., is now open to the Public. Frank lot w2icjit a new generation enjoys his Homes a Paul Goldberger new York times ii moment n Workman comes in Here he takes one look around and says. Of. This House is one of his. In t it .1 then he groans and lets you know How much More work it s going to mean for  said Jeannette Fields sitting in the living room of her 77-year-old House in Oak Park Iii. Fields did not have to say who he is her House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright who lived in Oak Par from 1889 until 1909. In that period and i he years just following. Wright de signed or altered almost 30 houses there and in neighbor ing River Forest where the Fields House was built originally for Arthur Davenport in 1901. Wright whose work involved an immense amount of precise craftsmanship May not be a hero to work men. Hut he is to almost everyone else in the two towns where his name overshadows even that of Ken Cal Hemingway a native son Oak Park s Davenport House is an excellent example of a Small Wright Home Page 10 the stars and  sunday August 20, 1978 Wright houses have Long attracted t have also been attracting buyers often y who Are willing in some cases to pay a of Wright name and in almost every Case t labors of restoration. Several Wright Hou Setti gently for about $175.000. About 20 to 25 p other Homes in the neighbourhood. Fixing up a Frank Lloyd Wright House labor of love. Many Wright houses including his studio Complex begun in 1889, had deter ably in recent decades. Wright s own i the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and t which bought it in 1975 in association i Trust Foll historic preservation. An ambitious restoration program is i the House partially torn up As Archit worked on it. Is open to the Public a few d the other houses Are normally closed Oak Park festival in july offered one Dao visits to a number of Wright houses plur of historical and architectural note. Wright s period in Oak Park i 22, a Young architect working Lor master Louis Sullivan. Wright had just married and he Advance him the Cash to buy a site at avenues in Oak Park. There he built i Structure controlled by a great Gablej number of characteristic Wrightman f fireplace a sense of continually Al since of most traditional holdings Andul Wright expanded and altered the Hoium the years moving his office to an adj act ing at one Point until he left his wife and set off for Europe with the wife of a client a the Wright Home and studio is a i l Masc work but a place in which a l tried without concern As to How the rent whole. Just a couple of doors Down Forest i is one of Wright s Best coherent a Hothouse at no. 318. A Noble self assure Brick built for a Chicago banker in i flt the leu Riley House is now owned by j orgy professor who purchased the to years after moving to Oak Park in the a Wright House. It is one of Wright s it As Many of his Early w works were called. It gathers its Many rooms under hipped roof with rows of windows in strips tucked up near the top and trance. The major rooms Are on the in. Trance is As if through a rounded Tunget into a great dark mass of Brick then i see the expansive living room open a the House is powerful but ukr i