2 Story Prairie style home, Old English details, printed plans
A blend of Prairie Style and Tudor - 1902 Building name: Orendorff House Designer/Architect: Robert Spencer Date of construction: 1902 Location: Canton, Illinois Style: Prairie/Tudor Style Number of sheets: 13 sheets measuring 24”x36” Sheet List Cover sheet, information Site Plan Basement Plan, 1/4”=1’-0” First Floor Plan, 1/4”=1’-0” Second Floor Plan, 1/4"=1'-0" Attic Plan, 1/4”=1’-0” 4 Sheets of Elevations, 1/4”=1’-0” Section, 1/4”=1’-0” 2 Sheets of leaded glass window designs, 1"=1'-0" 1902 was a good year for architect Robert Spencer. Sharing offices with Frank Lloyd Wright, in Chicago, he got the plum commission to design Daisy Orendorff and her husband U.G.'s new house. Spencer had a knack for combining the best of the Prairie Style, a free flowing, horizontal flow of plan, with more traditional decorative elements. He was also very skillful at combining natural materials. The Orendorff house, with its brick ground floor, half-timber upper floor, rhythmic windows and bold gab