At Home with Barbara and Bob Elsner Their House Is All; Wright

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Pick a detail in Barbara Elsner's Frank Lloyd Wright home and try to tell her it looks like Prairie School design. Go ahead and try.

"You're totally wrong. Of all his houses, this reflects the Japanese most. This is not Prairie," she says emphatically. "It's post-Prairie."

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At Home with Barbara and Bob Elsner Their House Is All; Wright

Barbara Elsner wasn't always so sure about this and other aspects of the Frank Lloyd Wright home she and her husband, Bob, bought in March 1955.

Less than a month earlier, her sister-in-law had died in the middle of the night of a brain aneurysm, leaving a 10-day-old baby and a 4-year-old. The children went to live with the Elsners, who had two toddlers of their own.

"I didn't buy it because it was a Wright house," Barbara Elsner says of the east side home, built in 1916 for Frederick C. Bogk, an alderman and busin...

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