1689 Lake Ave., Highland Park, Illinois. County/parish: Lake.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 29, 1982. NRIS 82002571.
Part of Highland Park MRA (NRIS 64000175).
1 contributing building.
The George Madison Millard House is a house at 1689 Lake Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Prairie style, it was completed in 1906 for the rare-book dealer George Millard and his wife Alice Millard. It was the first of two houses that Wright designed for Alice Millard; the other is La Miniatura in Pasadena, California, which was built in 1923 after George died. The George Madison Millard House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The house has a facade of brown-stained board and batten siding topped by a hipped roof. Inside, the house has a cruciform floor plan spanning approximately 3,000 square feet (280 m2), with four bedrooms. The Millards lived in the house for about six or seven years and retained its original design afterward. After several sales, the Montenegro family bought the Millard House in 1992 and renovated it. The Millard House was listed for sale in 2011; after several unsuccessful attempts at selling it, the Millard House was sold in 2015 to the Rothner family, which renovated it again. The Rothners donated the house in 2019 to the Jewish Federation, which sold it the next year.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891246