It’s Hard to Mistake a Frank Lloyd Wright Design
The Emil Bach house in Chicago, Illinois
Another amazing Frank Lloyd Wright design. The Emil Bach House, a Prairie style home, is located on North Sheridan Road in the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. At the time it was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places, it was privately owned.
Emil Bach, a co-owner of the Bach Brick Company, was a fan of Wright’s work. The house was built for Bach in 1915. It’s now in an area of apartments and mixed houses. The house is two stories with a basement, and when it was initially built, there was a view through the back of the lot to Lake Michigan. Eventually, other buildings were erected and interrupted that view.
On September 28, 1977, the Bach House became a Chicago Landmark. On January 23, 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Emil Bach
The site of the house was purchased by Emil Bach and his wife, Anna, on December 5, 1914. In the following year, Bach commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the house. In 1934, they sold the home to Joseph Peacock and he owned it until 1947. In 1951, the property changed hands two times with the second owner keeping the property until 1959 when he sold it to Joseph Blinder.
