The last and best of the houses in Wright's prairie era, the Robie House, seems designed for a plain, rather than the narrow corner lot where it is located in Hyde Park, a suburb of Chicago.
At the time it was built, its elongated horizontal profile seemed an exceedingly strange appearance among its conventional and vertical neighbors.
One reason for the huge success of this house lies in the explicit requirements of the customer.
He wanted a house free of enclosed spaces in the form of "blocks" for fire protection and without the decorative elements, such as curtains or rugs, etc. As an engineer, Frederick C. Robie wanted a house that also functioned like a well-oiled machine. That it is situated on an angular plot in large part explains its form, which is very similar to other "Prairie Houses".