Henry J. Allen House | |
 The house in late 2013 | |
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| Location | 255 N. Roosevelt St., Wichita, Kansas |
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| Coordinates | 37°41′24″N97°17′33″W / 37.69000°N 97.29250°W /37.69000; -97.29250 |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1917 |
| Architect | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Architectural style | Prairie School |
| NRHP reference No. | 73000775[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 7, 1973 |
TheAllen House (also known as theHenry J. Allen House and theAllen–Lambe House) is aPrairie Style home inWichita, Kansas, designed byFrank Lloyd Wright in 1915 for former Kansas GovernorHenry Justin Allen and his wife, Elsie.[2]
It was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's last Prairie Houses.[2][3] The design influence of the prairie and Japanese architecture (Wright was working on theImperial Hotel in Japan at the time) is apparent on both the exterior and interior.
The building's exterior features a horizontal grey Carthage marble water table as a transitional element between the ground and the house, white horizontal brick joints and flush ocher head joints. The roof was designed with an emphasis on horizontal lines and covered withLudowici tiles featuring a unique Japanese-inspired starting course.[4][5]
The house's interior continued the use of brick in a blend of ochre and buff colors, with joints gilded horizontally. The living and dining rooms wrap around a sunken garden filled withlilies andkoi fish. A terrace paved inquarry tile extends in from the outside, and helps to blend the two spaces.[4] The building was designed with a central vacuuming unit, an alarm system and gas fireplace logs.[6] Another innovation was the first firewall in a residential home. The bricks contain iron, giving it arust color.[2]
It is currently run by the Allen House Foundation as a museum under the stewardship of the Wichita Center for the Arts. The house was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1973.[1]
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