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Three important Chicago-area buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and H. H. Richardson are getting the comprehensive preservation they deserve. Exterior restoration has been completed at Richardson's Glessner House, and work is beginning on Wright's Unity Temple and Robie House.
This summer, at the 1886 Glessner House, a year-long $850,000 courtyard, roof, and window restoration reached completion. A kitchen porch, removed 20 years ago, was re-created, and a decrepit central porch rebuilt.
Funded in part by the Getty Grant Program and the City of Chicago, the Glessner work has made a remarkable difference in public perception of the fortresslike structure. The granite street facade was cleaned in 1984. Not addressed were the salmon-colored, brick-faced courtyard, which had...