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

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

From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, he and a group of architects in Chicago and its surrounding area designed buildings that were heavily influenced by the Prairie School.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2015

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

The Prairie School emerged in the first decade of the century from a riptide of social change.

From Time Magazine Archive