European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Heurtley House is a Noble mass of Brick. T Best work it is based on a very traditional image of the Home As an enclosing protective mass where rooms and occupants alike Are drawn to the Symbol in Center the Hearth. Prost found the House in reasonably Good condition Al though the previous owners while they had preserved it Well had filled it with unbelievable  he  there were trinkets and Mediterranean chandeliers All  Prost has thrown out a lot of that and started to re furnish. The furniture Wright designed for the House has Long been lost and rather than seek to reproduce it although be did have a Carpenter build four Wright dining room chairs Prost is filling the House with his own Eclectic mix which lean heavily to old victorian furniture. I want my own clutter As Long As it in t too Damag ing to the scale or details of the  he said. I love this House it s absolutely fabulous to live in but i not a museum and i have to live my own  the 12-room Heurtley House lasted for 75 years wit few major repairs but during last year s severe Winter the roof which had been resurfaced Only once year before began to leak. That presented Prost with a prob to do a new roof just like Wright s would be about $20,-000, but i could do a Standard roof for $3,000," he said. Arched fireplace is a typical touch. New York Tim 15 he also designed his own furniture. Sunday August 20, 1978 he decided to put a cheap roof Over the old one not destroying anything that now exists but not spending the extra Money either in part he said As a protest against those preservationists who say everything must be done in the style of Wright. Few of even the most devoted Wrig hians seem Totake that literally except the custodians of Wright s own House which is deliberately being re stored to its pure condition. More typical is the attitude of Nancy Rosenwinkel who lives with her children in the mrs. Thomas Gale House an abstract design of 1909 with floating front balconies thatis considered among Wright s finest Early Small houses. Rosenwinkel and her late husband who was an architect bought the House in 1962 from the daughter of the original owner. It is simpler and More cottage like than the Heurtley House although the Strong horizontals of its front decks Are an important pre figuring of Wright famous Kallin water. The Rosenwinkel kept All the Wright details Burthen finished the House in modern classics Lei Van Der Kohe and Marcel Breuer tables Breuer Wasilly chairs and an italian sofa. It is furniture that Wright who disliked the clean lines of the bauhaus would doubtless have disapproved of. But its sparse elegance makes it entirely appropriate to his clean abstract space. Sally Gale from whom we bought the House had Vic Torian furniture said Rosenwinkel. We tried Straw Woven furniture first but then we Felt this contemporary furniture was Best. It All adds up to a very liable  one curiosity of Oak Park is that there Are just enough right houses on the streets to make More conventional houses rather than Wright designs look a bit out of place. But nothing is too jarring for the great Trees and Broad lawns give the Street scape Unity and Wright s work Here is exceptionally varied. The Early buildings include houses that Are because of pressure from clients surprising Eclectic such As the Moore House on Forest Avenue a curious and exuberant mix of English Tudor and Wrightman aspects. More Wright i own is the Cheney House built la1904 for Edwin and Mamah Cheney friends of Wright and his wife Catherine. The household would later break up As a result of Wright s love affair with in. Cheney. The Brick House is one Story Low and spread out across its suburban site. A Brick Wall encloses a front Terrace and inside the main rooms flow together to create an almost entirely open plan a Radical gesture indeed for 19m.the House was bought last december by Dale Smirl a lawyer. The House is in Superb condition a new Kitchen was installed in a style sympathetic to the House eight years ago by Wright s son Floyd and the worst problem Smirl said he has is an atrocious heating Bill a prob Lem other Wright owners cite As Well. The stars and stripes Poge 11