Author: Dixie Legler & Christian Korab

Publisher/Date: Chronicle (2006, 1st printing)

Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket is in fine condition. 192 pages, index, measures 10×11 inches. Profusely illustrated in color.

Description: The houses of William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie, built mainly in the Midwest and Northeast, are the embodiment of the early 20th-century Prairie Style made famous by Frank Lloyd Wright—a blending of fine craftsmanship and elegant materials with contemporary technology and design.

Timeless and graceful, the 24 Purcell and Elmslie houses in these color photographs are filled with oak, cypress, and complex sawn-wood details. They were built to seem a part of the landscape, with open plans and site-specific designs; the architects’ use of nature-based ornament and bold contrast further distinguished their work from that of their contemporaries.