Jacobs House I
1937
Built for Herbert Jacobs, Madison journalist, this L-plan structure is the first of Wright's Usonian houses designed for middle income families. The horizontal emphasis of the earlier Prairie School style is evident. Innovative construction techniques used in this house include a masonry core, pre-fabricated sandwich dry walls, elimination of basement and attic spaces, and heat conduits in a concrete slab floor.
Marker can be reached from the intersection of Toepfer Avenue and Birch Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
