Museum
Charnley-Persky House Museum
Austere brick townhouse where a young draftsman worked beside the master he later claimed to eclipse.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Charnley-Persky House Museum in Chicago traces James Charnley's 1890 commission to the firm of Adler and Sullivan, which landed on the drafting table of a twenty-three-year-old junior employee named Frank Lloyd Wright, and the house that went up by 1892 carrying both his hand and Louis Sullivan's. It follows Sullivan's death in poverty in 1924 and the claim Wright began making once his old employer could no longer answer it. Listen for how historians now read the two men's fingerprints on the walls around you.
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