Exhibition Tours
Wright in Focus: Frank Lloyd Wright Bus Tour
December 18, 2024
This tour offers a unique day tour of Wright’s Chicago sites in conjunction with Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright. The tour is a collaboration between the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust and the Driehaus Museum. This tour will run Wednesday from 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM:
December 18
Schedule:
Meet your group at the Driehaus Museum (50 E. Erie) for a 10:00am private tour of Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright. Learn about Wright’s photography and the photographers who documented his career.
At 11:00am depart by motorcoach for the Frederick C. Robie House (1908-10) in Hyde Park, where you’ll enjoy lunch in the home followed by an in-depth tour. The house will be closed to the public on the day of your visit, so it will be exclusively yours to explore and experience. Robie House is Wright’s definitive Prairie style house and the only one of his buildings he later fought to save from demolition. Recognized worldwide as a masterpiece of early modernism, Robie House is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Depart Robie House by motorcoach at 1:30pm and arrive at the final stop, the magnificent downtown Rookery Building, one of Chicago’s early skyscrapers, where you will tour the luminous multi-level light court designed by Wright in 1905-07 at the invitation of Daniel Burnham, whose firm Burnham and Root had designed The Rookery building.
Please note this tour begins at the Driehaus Museum (50 E. Erie) and ends at The Rookery Building (209 S. LaSalle Street).
All tickets for this tour will be processed through the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. Please direct any questions to the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, Chicago at tours@flwright.org.
Tour registration ends at midnight on the Sunday before the date of the tour. Tour cancellations accepted until 7 days before the date of the tour.
Tour group maximum is 24 persons. The tour will not run unless the minimum requirement of 12 persons is met.
Photograph: Robie House. Courtesy of Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, Chicago. Photographer: James Caulfield