Heller House

File:Isidore H. Heller House, Woodlawn Avenue, Hyde Park, Chicago, IL (54213835449).jpg

Little is known about Isidore H. Heller and his family, except through interviews, census records, and county records.{{harvnb|National Park Service|2004|ps=.|page=9}} Isidore Heller, an Austrian immigrant born in 1847, later married Ida, who came from Wisconsin and was ten years younger than him. After moving to the United States, Heller worked at Wolf, Sayer, and Heller: Packers and Butcher's Supplies on the northwest side of Chicago. The Hellers had three children, including Walter Heller, a Chicago investment banker.

Heller purchased land in the Hyde Park area of Chicago from Jonas Hamburger on January 2, 1895, and commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the house in 1896. A building permit was issued on July 13, 1897;Benjamin, Susan. "[http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/PDFs/200504.pdf Isidore H. Heller House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827212819/http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/PDFs/200504.pdf|date=August 27, 2016}}," (PDF), National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, December 1, 2007, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, pp. 1–6. Retrieved October 23, 2007. the total cost of the work is estimated at $12,500 ({{Inflation|index=US|value=12500|start_year=1897|r=-3|fmt=eq}}). William Adams is credited as the builder.{{harvnb|O'Gorman|2004|ps=.|page=114}} In 1906, Heller purchased an additional {{convert|25|ft|m}} to the north of his original plot.

The Hellers lived in the house for about 16 years.{{harvnb|National Park Service|2004|ps=.|page=6}} Ida Heller died at the home on October 11, 1909, after falling there by accident; she had had heart disease. The house was sold to Frances Bickett in June 1913 for $27,000–27,500 (equivalent to ${{Inflation|index=US|value=27000|start_year=1913|r=-3|fmt=c}}–{{Inflation|index=US|value=27500|start_year=1913|r=-3|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation/year|index=US}}).{{Cite news |date=June 19, 1913 |title=Big Loan Rate Under 5 Per Cent |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-big-loan-rate-under-5-pe/166127680/ |access-date=February 19, 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=15}}{{Cite news |date=June 19, 1913 |title=Real Estate News; Deals of the Day |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-inter-ocean-real-estate-news-deals/166127776/ |access-date=February 19, 2025 |work=The Inter Ocean |pages=7}} Records indicate that by 1915, Heller had been living in Silver Lake for some years.{{harvnb|National Park Service|2004|ps=.|page=10}} Charles McFarlane acquired the house from the Bickett family by February 1914 for about $27,500 (equivalent to ${{Inflation|index=US|value=27500|start_year=1914|r=-3|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation/year|index=US}}).{{Cite news |date=February 1, 1914 |title=Real Estate Transactions |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-real-estate-transactions/166224539/ |access-date=February 20, 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=11}}{{Cite news |date=January 30, 1914 |title=Mrs. Phelps Buys Stillwell House |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-mrs-phelps-buys-stillwe/166224619/ |access-date=February 20, 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=15}} From 1924 to 1939 the Heller House was owned and occupied by Joseph Mayer and his wife, and the house became known as the "Joseph Mayer House" to local residents. Joseph died in 1936 and bequeathed most of his estate to his wife.{{Cite news |date=September 18, 1936 |title=Map Legal War Over Estate of Clark St. Hermit |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-map-legal-war-over-estat/166224940/ |access-date=February 20, 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=34}} The Mayers sold the home to the family of Wilfred Fox in 1939, who reportedly made alterations to the home's third floor."[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(NUMBER+@band(IL0125)) Isidore Heller House]," Historic American Buildings Survey Survey No. HABS IL-1046, Written Historical and Descriptive Data. Retrieved October 24, 2007.

File:Isidore Heller House - East (front) and North elevations - HABS ILL,16-CHIG,48-1.jpg

In 1948, George Watson purchased the home from Fox and owned it for the next 25 years, becoming the owner with the longest tenure. The Watsons converted the third-story servant rooms into an apartment during the 1950s; by the following decade, two college girls occupied that apartment.{{Cite news |date=February 6, 1966 |title=Hyde Park's Ageless Homes Symbolize Wright's Foresight |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-hyde-parks-ageless-home/166224821/ |access-date=February 20, 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=3}} Lewis Bradford then bought the house in 1972, and had the exterior sandblasted. In 1977, Victor and Danielle Barcilon bought the house. They occupied it until 1987, when it was sold to David and Catherine Epstein. After Serafino Garella and Judith Bromley bought the house in 1995, they restored a bathroom and restored the master bedroom's fireplace. The house was resold in 2004 to Steve Goldstein,{{cite web |last=Cholke |first=Sam |date=November 15, 2016 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright House No One Wants To Buy Back On The Market |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161115/hyde-park/heller-house-frank-lloyd-wright-landmark-mansion/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201152036/https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161115/hyde-park/heller-house-frank-lloyd-wright-landmark-mansion/ |archive-date=December 1, 2024 |access-date=February 13, 2025 |website=DNAinfo Chicago}} a cardiologist at Loyola University Chicago who described the house as "an investment in art and history".{{cite magazine |last=Bianchi |first=Laura |date=July 31, 2017 |title=The Takeaway: Dr. Steve Goldstein |magazine=Crain's New York Business |page=6 |volume=40 |issue=31 |id={{ProQuest|1925495446}}}}

Steve Goldstein was hired by Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 2011, and he and his wife Emily Novick placed the house for sale in January 2012.{{cite web |last=Rodkin |first=Dennis |date=January 25, 2012 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright's Heller House Hits the Market Today |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/real-estate/january-2012/frank-lloyd-wrights-heller-house-hits-the-market-today/ |access-date=February 13, 2025 |website=Chicago Magazine}} Though the house was initially listed for $2.5 million, the asking price was ultimately reduced to $2.425 million.{{cite web |last=LaTrace |first=AJ |date=October 16, 2014 |title=No One Wants Frank Lloyd Wright's Isidore H. Heller House |url=https://chicago.curbed.com/2014/10/16/10034758/no-one-wants-to-buy-frank-lloyd-wrights-isidore-heller-house |access-date=February 13, 2025 |website=Curbed Chicago}} The house remained unsold three years later; at the time, it often took longer for Wright–designed houses to be sold,{{cite web | last=Goldsborough | first=Bob | title=Frank Lloyd Wright's designs are hot properties again | website=Chicago Tribune | date=August 1, 2015 | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2015/08/01/frank-lloyd-wrights-designs-are-hot-properties-again/ | access-date=February 13, 2025 | archive-date=December 2, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202045424/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2015/08/01/frank-lloyd-wrights-designs-are-hot-properties-again/ | url-status=live }} and Goldstein did not want to lower the asking price. In 2014, tourists began visiting the house as part of the Wright Housewalk, which includes several Chicagoland buildings designed by Wright.{{cite web | last=Press | first=Associated | title=South Side Chicago Wright home added to tour | website=Daily Herald | date=February 14, 2014 | url=https://www.dailyherald.com/20140214/news/south-side-chicago-wright-home-added-to-tour/ | access-date=February 13, 2025}}{{cite web | last=Sikora | first=Lacey | title=Isidore H. Heller House extends the Wright world to Hyde Park | website=Wednesday Journal | date=May 13, 2014 | url=https://www.oakpark.com/2014/05/13/isidore-h-heller-house-extends-the-wright-world-to-hyde-park/ | access-date=February 13, 2025}} After withdrawing the house from the real-estate market,{{cite web |last=LaTrace |first=AJ |date=January 19, 2016 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright's Heller House Decides to Take a Break from the Market |url=https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/1/19/10845694/flw-heller-house-takes-break-from-mls |access-date=February 13, 2025 |website=Curbed Chicago |archive-date=December 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201172845/https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/1/19/10845694/flw-heller-house-takes-break-from-mls |url-status=live }} Goldstein and Novick listed the house for sale again in 2016 for $2.4 million.{{cite web |last=Lawler |first=Moira |date=November 11, 2016 |title=Landmarked Frank Lloyd Wright Home Returns to the Market for $2.4 Million |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/real-estate/november-2016/frank-lloyd-wright-heller-house/ |access-date=February 13, 2025 |website=Chicago Magazine |archive-date=December 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213151547/https://www.chicagomag.com/real-estate/november-2016/frank-lloyd-wright-heller-house/ |url-status=live }} The Goldstein family then renovated the house, updating the original elevator and repainting the rooms in their original colors.{{cite web |last=Lippe-Mcgraw |first=Jordi |date=May 21, 2019 |title=122-Year-Old Frank Lloyd Wright Home for Sale in Chicago |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/122-year-old-frank-lloyd-wright-home-for-sale-in-chicago |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=Architectural Digest}}{{cite web |last=Koziarz |first=Jay |date=May 17, 2019 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright's historic Heller House returns for $2.2M |url=https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/5/17/18628247/frank-lloyd-wright-for-sale-chicago-hyde-park-heller-house |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=Curbed Chicago |archive-date=December 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201202730/https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/5/17/18628247/frank-lloyd-wright-for-sale-chicago-hyde-park-heller-house |url-status=live }} The family again attempted to sell the Heller House in May 2019, this time for $2.2 million;{{cite web |last=Rodkin |first=Dennis |date=May 15, 2019 |title=Wright's Heller House in Hyde Park coming back on market |url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-market/wrights-heller-house-hyde-park-coming-back-market |access-date=February 13, 2025 |website=Crain's Chicago Business}}{{cite web |last=OBrien |first=John |date=May 20, 2019 |title=Chicago Cheat Sheet: Historic Wright home hits the market in Hyde Park…& more |url=https://therealdeal.com/chicago/2019/05/20/chicago-cheat-sheet-historic-wright-home-hits-the-market-in-hyde-park-more/ |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=The Real Deal |archive-date=December 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241208114502/https://therealdeal.com/chicago/2019/05/20/chicago-cheat-sheet-historic-wright-home-hits-the-market-in-hyde-park-more/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Koziarz |first=Jay |date=May 17, 2019 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright's historic Heller House returns for $2.2M |url=https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/5/17/18628247/frank-lloyd-wright-for-sale-chicago-hyde-park-heller-house |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=Curbed Chicago}} it still had not been sold by the next year.{{cite web |last=M. |first=Kathryn |date=July 30, 2020 |title=The Heller House by Frank Lloyd Wright |url=https://www.dwell.com/article/heller-house-frank-lloyd-wright-real-estate-3ac0a618 |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=Dwell |archive-date=December 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201201131/https://www.dwell.com/article/heller-house-frank-lloyd-wright-real-estate-3ac0a618 |url-status=live }}

In designing the Heller House, Wright eschewed more traditional styles in favor of a modern, geometric design, which served as a precursor to his later Prairie style work.{{harvnb|O'Gorman|2004|ps=.|page=96}} Wright's design also exhibits the influence of his mentor Louis Sullivan. The house was intended to fill a relatively small lot,{{harvnb|Gill|1987|ps=.|page=124}} measuring {{Convert|75|by|175|ft}} across. The building itself has a frontage of {{Convert|26|ft}} on Woodlawn Avenue and a west–east depth of {{Convert|98|ft}}. Plans indicate that there was supposed to have been a horse stable on the site, also designed by Wright, but this was never completed. The house is surrounded by both apartments and low-rise houses.{{harvnb|National Park Service|2004|ps=.|page=4}}

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The three-story, rectangular structure measures {{Convert|41|ft}} high. The facade is made mostly of yellow or buff Roman brick, which alternates with gray bricks on the second and third stories. Wright emphasized the horizontal axis further by using gray mortar for the horizontal joints between each row of bricks. The Heller House's windows are made of glazed, patterned stained glass panels;{{Cite journal |last=Neumann |first=Dietrich |year=1995 |title="The Century's Triumph in Lighting": The Luxfer Prism Companies and Their Contribution to Early Modern Architecture |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/991024 |journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=24–53 |doi=10.2307/991024 |issn=0037-9808 |archive-date=July 17, 2018 |access-date=August 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717212620/https://www.jstor.org/stable/991024 |url-status=live }} although such windows later became a characteristic of his Prairie style houses, Wright had never used it before.{{Cite news |last=Reif |first=Rita |date=April 8, 2001 |title=Art/Architecture; Patterned Glass That Lets Light In |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/arts/art-architecture-patterned-glass-that-lets-light-in.html |access-date=February 19, 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527155022/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/arts/art-architecture-patterned-glass-that-lets-light-in.html |url-status=live }} Some of the decorative features, such as loggias and protruding rooftop eaves, were reused in Wright's 1897 design for the Joseph W. Husser House.{{Cite journal |last=Gebhard |first=David |year=1959 |title=A Note on the Chicago Fair of 1893 and Frank Lloyd Wright |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/987979 |journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=63–65 |doi=10.2307/987979 |issn=0037-9808 |archive-date=April 1, 2016 |access-date=August 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401134135/http://www.jstor.org/stable/987979 |url-status=live }}{{Cite journal |last=Dennis |first=James M. |last2=Wenneker |first2=Lu B. |year=1965 |title=Ornamentation and the Organic Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/774862 |journal=Art Journal |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=2–14 |doi=10.2307/774862 |issn=0004-3249 |archive-date=December 2, 2021 |access-date=August 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202043642/https://www.jstor.org/stable/774862 |url-status=live }} The roof, frieze, and loggias may have been inspired by the design of the Turkish pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, which had taken place nearby.

The house was constructed on a narrow lot, and the main entryway is on the side (similar to Wright's Warren McArthur House of 1892), rather than through the front.Heinz, Thomas A. The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright, Chartwell Books, Inc., Edison, New Jersey: 2006, p.67, ({{ISBN|0785821457}}). The door is on the center of the house's southern elevation.{{harvnb|National Park Service|2004|ps=.|pages=4–5}} The entrance is adorned with Classical detailing and the cantilevered entry lintel, which sits on two ornately detailed stone columns.{{harvnb|O'Gorman|2004|ps=.|pages=96, 99}} The lintel is decorated with quatrefoils, four-leafed motifs set on a stone panel. Just below the window sills of the second story are horizontal white string courses.{{harvnb|O'Gorman|2004|ps=.|page=99}}

There is a loggia with arches and plaster columns on the second floor, directly above the entrance. There is a roof atop part of the second floor, and the third story is set back behind this roof. On the third floor is a wide frieze designed by Richard Bock, a frequent collaborator of Wright's, who had taken inspiration from Louis Sullivan.{{harvnb|Gill|1987|ps=.|page=125}} Bock's frieze depicts female maidens,{{Cite journal |last=Kaufmann |first=Edgar |year=1963 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright and the Fine Arts |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1566899 |journal=Perspecta |volume=8 |pages=37–42 |doi=10.2307/1566899 |issn=0079-0958 |archive-date=April 1, 2016 |access-date=August 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401011355/http://www.jstor.org/stable/1566899 |url-status=live }} inspired by the figures on the cover page of John Keats's 1896 book The Eve of Saint Agnes. After designing the Heller House, Wright never again designed a building with an allegorical frieze at its top. Restoration work in the 1970s, which utilized sandblasting, destroyed much of the detail on the frieze. The third floor is topped by a hip roof, with a smaller monitor roof above the main roof. Parts of the roof overhang the facade, creating eaves.

File:Isidore Heller House Living Room North and East walls - HABS ILL,16-CHIG,48-.jpg

Although the National Park Service cites the mansion as having {{Convert|9267|ft2|0}} of space, other sources cite the house as having {{Convert|6100|ft2}} with seven bedrooms.{{cite web |date=December 12, 2019 |title=Wright Homes for Sale |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/wright-homes-for-sale-11576164589 |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=The Wall Street Journal}}{{cite web |last=Goldsborough |first=Bob |date=November 17, 2016 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright's Heller House for sale again in Hyde Park for $2.5 million |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2016/11/17/frank-lloyd-wrights-heller-house-for-sale-again-in-hyde-park-for-25-million/ |access-date=February 13, 2025 |website=Chicago Tribune}} The primary section of the residence has five bedrooms and three bathrooms. The house is one room wide throughout much of its depth. In a similar manner to Wright's houses for the McAfee and Husser families in the late 1890s, the floor plan is shaped like an "I", with a central stair hall bisecting the building. There are four fireplaces throughout the house. In addition, there is a detached garage that can fit two cars. Quarter-sawn oak trim was used throughout the house.{{harvnb|National Park Service|2004|ps=.|page=5}} The house has closets and high ceilings, in contrast to Wright's later work, which tended to have low ceilings and lack closets.

The first-story rooms have sash windows, sand-plaster walls, and oak trim. The living room is separated from the dining room and service areas by a central stair hall.{{cite book |last=McCarter |first=Robert |title=Frank Lloyd Wright |date=1997 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-3148-0 |publication-place=London |page=39}} The vestibule is not split by a corridor or side hall, making it more spacious; this design was intended to entice visitors. The western wall of the vestibule originally had a door leading to the reception hall, but this was later replaced with a mirror and bookshelves. A hallway extends west–east across the house's first floor and leads to the reception, living, dining, and service rooms. A stair to the second floor, with a wooden balustrade, leads from this hallway. The living room to the east is cruciform in plan; it is painted gold, yellow, and green, with a brick-and-oak fireplace mantel and bookshelves. To the southwest is the dining room, another cruciform space. The dining room also has a brick-and-oak fireplace, in addition to pine finishes and sash windows. Next to the dining room, there is a pantry connecting with a kitchen, both of which are also furnished in pine. Northeast of the elevator core is a porch with windows and a wooden frame.

The stair from the first floor to the second is illuminated by colored glass windows. The second floor was initially devoted to bedrooms and bathrooms; it includes a master bedroom with a fireplace that, for many years, was hidden from view.{{harvnb|National Park Service|2004|ps=.|pages=5–6}} An elevator leads to the third floor, which was originally supposed to contain a servants' quarters and a playroom. This was later converted to a five-room apartment with a bathroom and two bedrooms. Some evidence of the original playroom, including bead boards, remains intact.

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The Heller House was Wright's first work in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. The area's architecture had been was influenced by the Gothic Revival work of Henry Ives Cobb. The house blends key elements of Wright's Prairie style and is located within a half mile of other early works. Wright's Robie House is six blocks from the Heller House, and the Blossom House and McArthur House are nearby, in Kenwood.{{cite web |url=http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Illinois/Blossom_House/blossom_house.htm |title=Blossom House: Chicago, Illinois |publisher=Pete Beers |access-date=December 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223075322/http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/flw_rt/Illinois/Blossom_House/blossom_house.htm |archive-date=December 23, 2007 |url-status=dead }} Around the time of the Heller House's construction, Hyde Park was experiencing rapid development due to its incorporation into the city of Chicago in 1889, the establishment of the University of Chicago in 1892, and the Columbian Exposition in 1893. Many of the houses built during this era are surrounded by elaborate gardens.

In a 1987 book about Wright's architecture, the journalist Brendan Gill wrote that the Heller House "fills its constricted sleeve of space with deceptive ease". The architectural writer Thomas J. O'Gorman said that the Heller House's design showed Wright's "ever-deepening movement toward his ultimate Prairie consciousness", calling it "his most outrageous design to date".

Soon after Wright completed the Heller House, he also designed the Rollin Furbeck House in Oak Park, Illinois, which shares design elements such as a brick facade and an upper-story loggia.{{harvnb|O'Gorman|2004|ps=.|page=106}} Leftover plaster casts for the Heller House's fireplace were reused for the fireplace in Wright's own Oak Park studio.{{cite book |last=Weil |first=Zarine |url=https://archive.org/details/buildinglegacyre0000unse |title=Building a Legacy: The Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park Home and Studio |publisher=Pomegranate |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-7649-1461-4 |page=119 |url-access=registration}} The house was showcased in a 1966 exhibition of Wright's work,{{Cite news |date=January 4, 1966 |title=Architectural Show to Open in Civic Center |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-architectural-show-to-op/166205812/ |access-date=February 19, 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=23}} and two capitals from the house's facade were displayed at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1994.{{Cite news |last=Reif |first=Rita |date=March 13, 1994 |title=Arts/Artifacts; Chairs, Windows and Other Surprises by Wright |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/arts/arts-artifacts-chairs-windows-and-other-surprises-by-wright.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526103404/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/arts/arts-artifacts-chairs-windows-and-other-surprises-by-wright.html |archive-date=May 26, 2015 |access-date=February 19, 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Roger |date=February 2, 1994 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit shows how his style developed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kalamazoo-gazette-frank-lloyd-wright/166206208/ |access-date=February 19, 2025 |work=The Kalamazoo Gazette |pages=17}} The Heller House was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 15, 1971,{{cite web |year=2003 |title=Heller House |url=http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/H/HellerHouse.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607163457/http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/H/HellerHouse.html |archive-date=June 7, 2007 |access-date=May 10, 2007 |publisher=City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division}} and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.{{NRISref|2007a}} On August 18, 2004, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated the house a National Historic Landmark.{{Cite web |title=National Historic Landmark Survey |url=http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/IL01.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410015059/http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/IL01.pdf |archive-date=April 10, 2008 |access-date=April 6, 2008 |publisher=National Park Service}}{{cite web |title=Isidore H. Heller House |url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1818611782&ResourceType=Building |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103060417/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1818611782&ResourceType=Building |archive-date=January 3, 2008 |access-date=October 3, 2007 |work=National Historic Landmark summary listing |publisher=National Park Service}}

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• {{cite book |last=Gill |first=Brendan |url=https://archive.org/details/manymaskslifeoff0000gill_t0l6 |title=Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright |date=1987 |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |isbn=978-0-399-13232-2 |publication-place=New York |page= |url-access=registration}}
• {{cite report |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/b1c81193-3733-47d9-a27b-f4dcb56f89bc/ |title=Heller, Isidore, House |date=August 18, 2004 |publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service |access-date= |ref={{harvid|National Park Service|2004}} |website=}}
• {{cite book |last=O'Gorman |first=Thomas J. |url=https://archive.org/details/franklloydwright0000ogor |title=Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago |date=2004 |publisher=Thunder Bay Press |isbn=978-1-59223-127-0 |publication-place=San Diego, Calif |pages= |url-access=registration}}
• {{Cite Wright Companion}} (S.038)

• [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(NUMBER+@band(IL0125)) Historic American Buildings Survey]: data set
• [https://webapps1.chicago.gov/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1324 Chicago Landmarks website]

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Category:Frank Lloyd Wright buildings

Category:Houses completed in 1897

Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago

Category:National Historic Landmarks in Chicago

Category:Chicago Landmarks

Category:1890s architecture in the United States

Category:1897 establishments in Illinois