File:Dana-Thomas House, Lawrence Avenue and 4th Street, Springfield, IL - 53323475733.jpg

English: Built in 1902-1904, this Prairie-style house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Susan Lawrence Dana, as a renovation of an Italianate-style house built in 1868-1869, which was completely surrounded by new construction and heavily modified. The house demonstrates the Japanese influence in Wright’s design philosophy at the time, most evident in the house’s flared eave corners and long, low, horizontal form that embraces the surrounding landscape, reminiscent of traditional Japanese architecture. The house features a gabled roof with wide overhanging eaves, a cream-colored roman brick exterior with raked horizontal joints, both of which emphasize the house’s horizontality, art glass windows, corner brick piers, decorative geometric cladding on the second floor of the house, copper box gutters and fascia, long, low porches with brick piers and railings, decorative concrete urns, a rear garden surrounded by a brick wall, and a matching rear carriage house. Inside, the house features a Prairie-style interior, with an unchanged victorian lounge from the original house being present, which features an ornate fireplace. Rooms within the house feature elements including barrel vaulted ceilings, decorative woodwork, built-ins, earth-tone plaster, art glass, decorative ceiling beams, and custom decorative light fixtures, all designed by Wright. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Today, the house is operated as a museum, and is open to the public for tours.