313 Forest Ave: Hills DeCaro House (1906)

It's complicated!

This house was originally built in 1874 by William Grey just to the north of where it currently sits. Wanting his daughter Mary to live next door, Nathan Moore, the owner of the house now next door, moved the home and asked Wright to remodel it.

Wright shifted the entry way 90 degrees to it's current location, removed the wood cladding and replaced it with stucco, created banded windows and added a deep overhanging roof line. Departing from his usual Prairie School hip roof, Wright for some reason gave this home a more steeply pitched room.

A fire destroyed much of the house in 1974 and then owners the DeCaros rebuilt it to its current glory and restored some of its original Wright features discovered on a long lost blueprint.