Property Watch: A Rare Pacific Northwest Prairie-Style Home

Seattle has few ties to America’s ultimate starchitect. But this 1918 home, on a corner lot at the crux of Eastlake, Montlake, and north Capitol Hill, represents one of our closest connections to Frank Lloyd Wright.

Our region has not been graced with many of Wright’s homes, but a couple of his disciples made their careers in Seattle designing beautiful, functional dwellings. The closest to Wright’s own style was Andrew Willatsen, who worked in Chicago with Wright as a draftsman for five years starting in 1902. He stayed within the same thriving Chicago architecture scene until he packed up and moved to the Pacific Northwest

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