Frank Lloyd Wright created some of his finest and most detailed art glass compositions for the Susan Lawrence Dana House in Springfield, IL.

Autumn Sumac

Autumn Sumac. The midwestern sumac plant is the primary theme of the art glass. The design from nature has been interpreted, reduced to its basic geometry, and rearranged in a variety of unique patterns found throughout the house.

A small window overlooking the reflecting pool repeats the vertical sumac pendant detail also found in the geometric lattice pattern of the reception doors. The rich amber and brown palette mirror the autumnal color scheme of the prairie.

The Dana House

One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s early triumphs, the Dana-Thomas House located at Fourth Street and Lawrence Avenue in Springfield, Illinois, is the best-preserved and most complete of his early “Prairie” houses. Unlike most Wright projects, this commission involved a complete restructuring of an existing thirty-year-old home.

Completed in 1904 for Springfield socialite and women’s activist Susan Lawrence Dana, the 12,000 square-foot house also includes more than 100 original pieces of furniture and 450 art glass windows, doors and light fixtures designed by Wright.