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

A Prairie School design fan, weekly baker and servant to my sourdough starter, I signed up for “Grain Cookery and Baking,” led by Odessa Piper, the now Boston-based chef who owned the seminal farm-to-table restaurant L’Etoile in nearby Madison for 29 years.

From New York Times

Didion’s father, Frank Didion, purchased one of these houses in the 1940s — a nearly 5,000-square-foot blend of Colonial Revival and Prairie School styles — at the corner of 22nd and T Streets, moving the family from a smaller home a few blocks away.

From Los Angeles Times

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

The Wisconsin State-Journal reported that the Sun Prairie School District, which is located in a suburb of Madison, blamed some teachers at the Patrick Marsh Middle School for the lesson.

From Fox News

Jeff Wright, the assistant superintendent for the Sauk Prairie School District, grew up in Wisconsin, moved away for a while and returned to raise his family near Spring Green.

From Seattle Times