Robie House

The Frederick C. Robie House is a historic house museum on the University of Chicago campus in the neighborhood of , Illinois, United States.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: U.S. National Historic Landmark in Chicago, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Also known as: “Frederick C. Robie House”
  • Address: 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Seminary Co-op and Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.

Bookstore
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Seminary Cooperative Bookstores, Inc, founded in 1961, is a not-for-profit bookstore with two branches in . Its flagship, known colloquially as the or simply the Sem Co-op, is located at 5751 S.

Church
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Rockefeller Chapel is a Gothic Revival chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. A monumental example of Collegiate Gothic architecture, it was meant by university patron John D. is situated 550 feet southwest of Robie House.

Museum
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The Museum of Science and Industry is a private, non-profit science museum located in , the neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois. It is adjacent to and the University of Chicago campus. is situated 3,600 feet east of Robie House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hyde Park and Woodlawn.

Photo: Urbanrules, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is one of 's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront. Having played host to the White City, the University of Chicago, President Obama, the setting for Richard Wright's Native Son, and…

Suburb
is one of the 77 community areas of in Illinois, United States. It is near the shore of 8.5 miles south of . The community area is bounded by the lake to the east, 60th Street to the north, King Drive to the west and 67th Street to the south, and a small area that lies south of 67th Street between Cottage Grove Avenue and South Chicago Avenue.

Neighborhood
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is the small southeast corner of , a community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is bounded by Lake Shore Drive to the east, to the north, 51st Street to the south, Harold Washington Park to the southeast, and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks used by the South Shore and Metra Electric Lines to the west.

Robie House

Latitude
41.78981° or 41° 47′ 23″ north
Longitude
-87.59593° or 87° 35′ 45″ west
Elevation
587 feet (179 metres)
Inception
1909
Open location code
86HJQCQ3+WJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 125667497
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­detached
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­heritage
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
11820698
Wiki­data ID
Q929965
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Thai—“Robie House” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “روبي هاوس”
  • Basque: “Robie etxea”
  • Basque: “Robie House”
  • Catalan: “Casa Robie”
  • Chinese: “羅比之家”
  • Croatian: “Robie House”
  • Czech: “Robie House”
  • Danish: “frank llouyd wright”
  • Dutch: “Robie House”
  • Finnish: “Robie House”
  • French: “Frederick C. Robie House”
  • French: “Maison Robie”
  • French: “Robie House”
  • German: “Frederick C. Robie House”
  • German: “Robie House”
  • Hebrew: “בית רובי”
  • Italian: “Robie House”
  • Japanese: “ロビーハウス”
  • Japanese: “ロビー邸”
  • Persian: “خانه روبی”
  • Persian: “منزل روبی”
  • Portuguese: “Casa de Frederick C. Robie”
  • Portuguese: “Casa Robie”
  • Portuguese: “Robie House”
  • Russian: “Дом Роби”
  • Slovak: “Robie House”
  • Slovenian: “Frederick C. Robie House”
  • Slovenian: “Robie House”
  • Spanish: “Casa Robie”
  • Swedish: “Robie House”
  • Thai: “คฤหาสน์โรบี”

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