The J. J. Walser Jr. residence in the Chicago, United States, neighborhood of Austin was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright [2] for real estate developer Joseph Jacob Walser Jr. The cruciform two-story house is typical of Wright's Prairie School period.

The J.J. Walser Jr. house, a moderately scaled residence that typifies Wright’s architecture of the period, is finished in light colored stucco with dark stained wood trim that creates a high level of contrast.

Jun 26, 2024 · Designed for printing executive Joseph Jacob Walser, Wright reworked the Walser plan for several subsequent projects, specifically the Barton House in Buffalo (1903), the DeRhodes House in South Bend, Indiana (a near-twin, designed in 1906), and the now-demolished Horner House in Chicago (1908).

Jul 30, 2024 · The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy is working with members of the Austin community to save the house and ensure its survival. Designed for printing company executive Jospeh Jacob Walser, the home is one of only five existing Wright-designed Prairie structures in Chicago.

Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: March 30, 1984 Built four years after the suburb of Austin was annexed to Chicago, this is among the best of Wright's design experiments with inexpensive residences.

Jul 31, 2024 · "A house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Austin neighborhood is deteriorating while mired in a foreclosure mess and needs a rescuer, but the path to that is murky. "Built in 1903, the J.J. Walser Jr. House on Central Avenue is in poor condition, as seen in the photos provided by the Frank Lloyd

Nov 20, 2024 · Preservationists and an Austin neighborhood organization are rallying to help save an architecturally-influential — but seriously deteriorating — Frank Lloyd Wright home on the Far West Side.

Dec 13, 2024 · Joseph Walser, son of a real estate developer in the Austin neighborhood, purchased the lot at 417 South Central (its address prior to Chicago's address re-designation in 1909, which left the house as 42 North Central) and hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design the house; it was completed in 1903.

Nov 27, 2024 · The groups are seeking to rescue the J.J. Walser House, 42 N. Central Ave., a 1903 stucco residence and Chicago landmark that is a template for the architect’s more celebrated Prairie School designs. The home has been physically distressed for the last 25 years.

Five of twenty-six second story windows sold at Bonhams Auctions, New York, on December 14, 2017, from the Joseph J. Walser House. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903, the house sat on an uncrowded lot, in the newly annexed Austin neighborhood.