Frank Lloyd Wright’s first privately commissioned home, the William Winslow House, has hit the market in River Forest with an asking price of nearly $2 million. The house — completed in 1894 — spans more than 5,000 square feet with five bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms. It was listed Sept.
4 at $1,985,000, according to @properties Realtor Elizabeth August. The home, 515 Auvergne Place, was commissioned in 1893 by Edith and William Winslow, owners of a Chicago ornamental iron company that created the ironwork façade of the former Carson Pirie Scott building in the Loop. Wright, who had just left the firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, was 26 when he took the job.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and the blueprints are in the Library of Congress. The home is one of 380 Wright structures still remaining, and it last sold for $1,375,000 in 2016, when the current owners took on the home as a retirement project, August said. She said the owners have put another $1.
3 million into restoring and renovating the home, largely updating the “mechanics” of the house such as the plumbing and air conditioning, while also restoring the ornate limestone that had previously been painted over. “When you are standing in front of the house with the prairie grasses it’s really inspiring and breathtaking,” August said. “You come up to the house and it has this amazing presence, you really see what Frank Lloyd Wright was trying to do with the ele.