The Warren Hickox House, also known as the Hickox/Brown house, is a 1900

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house in the

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style in

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. The house design is similar to two articles Wright published in the ''

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''.

History

Warren Hickox, Jr. ran a real estate and loan business in

. Warren was the brother of Anna Hickox Bradley, who lived next door in another Wright design, the

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. The house was modeled after two articles that Wright wrote for the ''

''. The interior is adapted from "A Home in a Prairie Town" and the exterior is based on "A Small House with Lots of Room in It".Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
/ref> These designs themselves may have been based on "Primitive Chinese House", an article in ''Histoire de l'Habitation Humaine, depuis les Temps Préhistoriques Jusqu'à nos Jours'' by

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. The builder may have used the Hickox House as a temporary headquarters while the Bradley House was still under construction.

Architecture

The exterior walls are covered in white plaster, decorated with stained woodwork. Interior walls are also plaster with a sand finish. Interior woodwork, except oak floors, is Georgia pine and is suggestive of Tudor half-timber framing. The F.B. Henderson House in

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is a mirror-image of the building. The house also has a very similar design to the S. A. Foster House in

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. The house has four bedrooms and a chimney. The house retains much of its original integrity except for the removal of the kitchen entrance and south terrace. The house is considered a "mature" example of Wright's Prairie school designs and has been called "one of the single most significant houses" designed by Wright. The house was added to the

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on January 3, 1978. On August 22, 1986, the house was also listed as part of the Riverview Historic District. File:Wright-Hickox Ground Floor Plan 01.png, Ground floor plan. File:Wright-Hickox_Second_Floor_Plan.png, Second floor plan.

References

* Storrer, William Allin. ''The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion''. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, (S.056)

External links

Hickox House on appraisercitywide.com
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