Avery Coonley House, 300 Scottswood Road, 281 Bloomingbank Road, Riverside, Cook County, IL

2002 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry
Significance: Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Coonley estate for Chicago industrialist Avery Coonley and his wife, Queene Ferry of the Detroit-based Ferry Seed Company on a unique corner site across from the Des Plaines River in Riverside, Illinois between 1907 and 1910. Riverside, founded in 1869 as the nation's first planned community, was designed by America's preeminent landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted...The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark on December 30, 1970.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N839
Survey number: HABS IL-1100
Building/structure dates: 1907-1910 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1952 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1978 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000243