Francis Apartments, 4304 South Forestville Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Address corrected from Forestville Avenue to Forrestville Avenue.
Significance: The Francis Apartment Building is an early design by Frank Lloyd Wright. One of two middle-income housing projects executed by Wright in Chicago in 1895, the building was praised by Robert C. Spencer as follows: "Devoid of architecturesque features and aggressive enrichment, there is a quiet, impressive dignity in the clean-cut facade of the Francis Building which gives it an enviable air of well-bred distinction among the rabble of slatternly, dowdy, and illiterate 'flats' of the neighborhood. The grammar of this building is simplicity itself with the sufficient and evident preparation for the structure at the base, the sheer use of uninterrupted wall surface, completed finally and gracefully in the simple rich crown with fretted sky-line." In 1960, the building was officially named a Chicago Architectural Landmark.
Survey number: HABS IL-1076
Building/structure dates: 1895- 1896 Initial Construction