DENVER PRAIRIE Take Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie home and mix it with the two-bay Denver Four-Square and you get Denver Prairie: a taller, boxier version of the great 20th century architect's breakthrough style. Wright's low, flat designs were meant to reflect the Midwestern prairie. Denver Prairies, popular in the region during the 1910s and 1920s, tend to have wide windows and shallow hip roofs. Sometimes, they feature leaded glass, flat roofs and tapered columns. Always, they feel solid and stable.

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