Several Frank Lloyd Wright-designed properties are available for overnight stays.
One of the guests rooms at the Emil Bach House in Chicago. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)
The living room in the Emil Bach House contains a mixture of Wright-designed and contemporary furniture. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
The Emil Bach House is the site of weddings and other special events. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
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The Emil Bach House in Rogers Park goes for $1,495 a night, making it the most expensive rental of a Frank Lloyd Wright home. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
Each of the 27 rooms in the Historic Park Inn in downtown Mason City, Iowa, is different. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
Frank Lloyd Wright wasn’t a big fan of kitchens, which he typically referred to as workspaces. This is the kitchen in the Palmer House. Note the windows in the shape of abstract birds. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
Even the beds in the Palmer House are shaped irregularly. The six-sided structure is equivalent to a standard double. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
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The back of the Palmer House, near the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. The so-called Usonian model usually was aimed at average folk, but an economics professor and his yoga teacher wife had this more upscale version built. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
The Palmer House is a multilevel brick and cypress Frank Lloyd Wright house based on the equilateral triangle, meaning there are no 90-degree angles in the house. This is the living room. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
The two-story Louis Penfield House in Willoughby Hills, Ohio, outside Cleveland, sits on 30 acres on the bank of the Chagrin River. The house was a Usonian model aimed at middle-income people. Penfield was an art teacher. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
Frank Lloyd Wright considered anyone over 6 feet tall “a weed.” Louis Penfield was 6 feet 8, about a foot taller than Wright, who raised the ceilings to accommodate his client. This is one of three bedrooms in the house. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
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Several walls in the Louis Penfield House are made almost entirely of windows, providing a panoramic view of the outside. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
The Palmers, taken with Japanese culture, decided to add a tearoom to their property after Frank Lloyd Wright had passed away. They hired Wright apprentice John Howe, dubbed “the pencil in Wright’s hand,” to design the tearoom using leftover brick from the house. (Howard Wolinsky / Chicago Tribune)
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. People can tour the property, but overnight stays aren’t allowed. (Gene J. Puskar / AP)
The Historic Park Inn in Mason City, Iowa, opened in 2011 after an $18.5 million renovation. (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)