Significance
The historic district is of the highest significance on a national level for its residential architecture. Of the buildings within the historic district over 20 of them were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Besides the structures designed by Wright there are 60 other buildings designed by colleagues, students, followers and other adherents of Wright's Prairie School of architecture. The National Register of Historic Places form called the district "undoubtedly the largest concentration of early modern architecture to be found anywhere in the world. It was added to the National Register on December 4, 1973.
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“Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?—to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”
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