For Sale: ‘OMG’ House With Wright Ties
Patch tours $2.7 million Riverwoods home designed by famed architect's youngest apprentice.
When it came to designing her home, Joyce Marcus knew exactly what she wanted, she also knew precisely who she wanted to build it. “You know how sometimes you meet someone and you’re symbiotic, that’s how it was with Dennis and I,” Marcus remembered of her first interaction with architect Arthur Dennis Stevens. Stevens happened to be one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s youngest apprentices and lived with the noted architect for several years. Marcus first met her dream architect when she moved her business to an office building in Des Plaines. Stevens not only designed the facility but was working there at the time. So it didn’t take Marcus very long to introduce herself. “I walked in their office and I said, ‘This building is amazing,’ ” Marcus…
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9:36 am on Friday, August 5, 2011
An Arthur Dennis Stevens home in Highland Park was Landmarked in 2010. Stevens designed that home when he was an Intern Architect with Don Erickson; many years later Stevens designed a small addtion to his original design. A "pagoda" home Stevens built for himself in Palatine is lovingly documented in the current owner's video. See: http://thesnoopster.com/2009/06/first-knock-knock-stop-palatine… more ›