Prairie School

American  

noun

1. a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Example Sentences

She lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with her partner, Harlan Mandel, in an elegant house built in the Prairie School architectural style made famous by Frank Lloyd Wright.

From New York Times • May 19, 2021

Wright was born in 1867 in Wisconsin and was known for his “organic,” distinctly American style, called the Prairie School of architecture, and for hundreds of iconic buildings.

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2016

Creating a record of American speech is just like preserving pop art paintings or Prairie School architecture or early jazz recordings—except that it’s much easier to forget that fragments of our language are historical objects.

From Time • Apr. 6, 2015

Manning's mansion is about midway between the Prairie School style six-flat that Larry Hallock and his partner have just purchased, and the American Foursquare owned by Carolyn and David Ioder.

From Chicago Tribune • Jun. 27, 2014

Wright was the leading exponent of the short-lived Prairie School, America's most successful attempt to achieve a national style, a unified design.

From Time Magazine Archive