PD Hoyt House

Frank Lloyd Wright designed this Prairie House for the Hoyt's in 1906. The house features a two story, square floor plan capped by a low hip roof with broad, overhanging roof eaves.  The Hoyt House originally had a matching hip roof above the entry, but that was replaced with a Japanese influenced trellis after the privacy wall in front of the house was added in the 1980's.  The house bears a resemblance to Frank Lloyd Wright's cottage designed for Grace Fuller of Glencoe, IL, which was never built. Of note is the "H" design, for Hoyt,  seen in the window work. The facade is covered in stucco, and wooden trim defines its geometric massing. Hoyt was responsible for the introduction of Frank Lloyd Wright and AW Gridley and later Colonel George Fabyan. Wright then designed a house for AW Gridley in Geneva's neighboring town of Batavia in 1906, and remodeled a farmhouse for Fabyan on his Riverbank Estate in Geneva the following year.