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The historic district encompasses 43 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 as the Usonia Historic District. The community was named " Usonia" in homage to Wright, whose ideas on the way Americans should live together guided their plan. The balance of the homes were decreed to be in the modern "organic" style ordained by Wright. The layout of the neighborhood was planned by Wright in a circular manner, preserving most of the original trees and "encouraging the flow of the land". It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The Acres, also known as Galesburg Country Homes, is a naturalistic residential plat designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Charleston Township, Michigan. Wright designed three homes himself and approved architectural plans of the other 44, which were designed by such architects as Paul Schweikher, Theodore Dixon Bower, Ulrich Franzen, Kaneji Domoto, Aaron Resnick and David Henken – an engineer and Wright apprentice. / 42.2610917°N 85.4118306°W / 42.2610917 -85.4118306. Wright decided where each house should be placed. In 1945, a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) rural tract was purchased by a cooperative of young couples from New York City, who were able to enlist Frank Lloyd Wright to build his Broadacre City concept. Usonia Historic District was a planned community and is now a national historic district located in Town of Mount Pleasant, adjacent to the village of Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York. Wright revised the design of the building multiple times, continually refining ideas that would shape his work for decades to come.Interactive map showing Usonia Historic District The Oak Park residence was a site of experimentation for the young architect during the twenty-year period he lived there. The rooms flow together, connected by wide, open doorways hung with portieres that could be drawn for privacy. On the ground floor Wright created a suite of rooms arranged around a central hearth and inglenook, a common feature of the Shingle style. Despite its modest scale, the interior of the home exhibits an early indication of Wright’s desire to liberate space.

Wright’s original plan included a hall, living room, dining room, pantry, and kitchen on the first floor and studio, bathroom, and two bedrooms on the second. The home’s façade is defined by bold geometric shapes-a substantial triangular gable set upon a rectangular base, polygonal window bays, and the circular wall of the wide veranda. The stamp of Sullivan’s influence is apparent in the simplification and abstraction of the building and its plan. Like many of Silsbee’s residential commissions, which were modeled after beach cottages on the East Coast, Wright’s home features bay windows, a wood frame, and wooden shingle cladding.

Built in the Shingle style, the structure draws on conventions Wright adopted working under architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee in 1887. It was here he constructed a home for his first wife, Catherine Tobin, and himself. With a loan from Adler and Sullivan, Wright purchased a plot of land in the semi-rural village of Oak Park, on the western edges of Chicago. Links: Restoration Status: Restored to its 1909 appearance by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, 1974 - 1987