Early 20th-century architect George Maher developed his own distinct style that blended Prairie School with more traditional forms. You can see that in Edgewater’s Edwin Colvin House, a 6,000-square-foot mansion built in 1909 that combines Prairie and classical American styles and features dominant central entries, broad hipped roofs, and bold rectangular massing. In 2017, the Colvin House was converted into a co-working and event space.

Frank Lloyd Wright disciple Barry Byrne used Prairie style as a creative basis for his own practice, where he designed single-family homes as well as modern ecclesiastical buildings in Chicago. Byrne designed the Immaculata High School in 1922, which was an all-girls Catholic high school for 60 years. Today, it is home to the American Islamic College. Recently, a team of developers announced a plan to convert the former school into 275 housing units and construct a new 23-story tower in the parking lot behind it.

Dwight H. Perkins designed 40 public schools, but his masterpiece is considered to be Carl Schurz High School, completed in 1910. Blending both the Chicago and Prairie schools of architecture, the school has been described by the American Institute of Architects as “the best and most important” of his designs.

Danish-American landscape architect Jens Jensen’s brought his own naturalistic Prairie style in redeveloping Humboldt Park in the early 1900s. His design included an extension of the lagoon, a “prairie river,” pedestrian bridges, and aquatic plants. In 1907, architects Schmidt, Garden and Martin added a Prairie-style boathouse that continues to influence modern architecture.

Many of the homes in Oak Park constructed in the late 19th century were traditional Queen Anne and colonial revival styles, but the mansion Maher designed for investment banker John W. Farson in 1897 resembles Prairie School. The house, which currently serves as a museum that hosts community events and cultural performances, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1996.

Frank Lloyd Wright student William E. Drummond was influenced by his mentor’s Unity Temple when he designed this Austin church. The one-story building consists of a tall central section with massive brick piers with leaded glass windows recessed in the spaces between them and a clerestory lit by a large skylight with lower side-aisles. The 1908 building was built for a Congregational assembly but it has also housed Seventh-Day Adventist, Catholic, and Church of God in Christ congregations.

Maher also designed this handsome 6,550 square-foot Kenwood home. The relationship to Wright’s work is evident in the ribbons of windows, low-pitched roof, and deep, unbroken eaves. It was purchased for $2.25 million in 2016.

This prairie-style South Shore home is the only surviving building designed by John S. Van Bergen in Chicago. The Frank Lloyd Wright colleague designed it for ad exec Allan Miller in 1913. It was last sold in 2014 for $305,000.