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Interior House Plans Frank Lloyd Wright The Robie House Gus Thompson The Robie House is a house built at 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago, on the University of Chicago campus. It was built and designed for Frederick C. Robie by Frank Lloyd Wright between 1908-1910. Frederick Robie was a successful Chicago businessman who hired Wright to build this house for him and his family. The final cost of the house was $58,000 (about 1,300,00 in todays money). 13,500 was for the land, 35,000 for the design and building, and 10,000 for furniture. The house was one of Wright's "Prairie Style" houses, drawing inspiration from the plains of Wright's Midwestern childhood. It was said to be "two rectangles passing by each other". It also had the design aspects of sloping roofs, sheltering overhangs, and quiet sky lines.