Oscar B. Balch House
The Oscar B. Balch House is a home at 611 N. Kenilworth Avenue in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The Prairie style Balch House was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1911.Photo: IvoShandor, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: House
- Description: historic house in Illinois, United States
- Address: 611 North Kenilworth Avenue, 60302
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and Unity Temple.
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
Museum
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a historic house museum in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. It was built in 1889 by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who lived there with his family for two decades and expanded it multiple times, and consists of two interconnected structures. Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is situated 1,000 feet southwest of Oscar B. Balch House.
Unity Temple
Place of worship
Photo: IvoShandor, CC BY 2.5.
Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church building that houses the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation at 875 Lake Street in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Unity Temple is situated 3,000 feet south of Oscar B. Balch House.
Oak Park Township
Government office
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Oak Park Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois and its boundaries are coterminous with the village of Oak Park. As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,583. Oak Park Township is situated 3,800 feet south of Oscar B. Balch House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oak Park and River Forest.
Oak Park
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Oak Park is a city of 52,000 people in the Chicagoland area. It's essentially an outdoor museum dedicated to architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
River Forest
Village
River Forest is a suburban village adjacent to Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 11,717. Two universities make their home in River Forest, Dominican University and Concordia University Chicago.
Forest Park
Village
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Forest Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. The population was 14,339 at the 2020 census. The Forest Park terminal on the CTA Blue Line is the line's western terminus, located on the Eisenhower Expressway at Des Plaines Avenue.
Oscar B. Balch House
- Categories: single-family detached home, building, and residential building
- Location: Oak Park Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.8966° or 41° 53′ 48″ northLongitude
-87.79816° or 87° 47′ 53″ westOpen location code
86HJV6W2+JPOpenStreetMap ID
way 277096003OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseWikidata ID
Q7105870
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