>> You may not know it, but there's a frank Lloyd Wright designed home tucked away on Chicago's West side now a local organization is working to bring the 120 year-old city landmark back to life.

Join Hernandez takes us inside the historic walls or house to hear about its next chapter.

>> On Central Avenue sits a home that if its walls could talk would have more than a century of stories to tell.

>> Just behind us is the JJ will also house.

This is house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the world famous architect.

It's one of 5 surviving stand-alone Frank Lloyd Wright homes in the city of Chicago.

>> It was built in 19.

0, 3 and showcases Wright's prairie style design featuring a low pitched roof.

Overhanging eaves and an open floor plan.

>> This is like one of his first representation like the Prairie style.

This open concept that you see here where you literally have the separate spaces, but you can stand from one end of the home and just see through, you know, the living room, dining room all the way to the backyard.

And, you know, it's just really couldn't for the time.

But more than 120 years later, time is taking its toll.

>> After years of uncertainty following the death of its longtime owner, the organization Austin, coming together recently purchased the city landmark.

>> Back in the 70's, they were believe one of the 4 four-fifths toward of the home.

>> they had the home from the 1970's all the way up until it transferring over to us.

Ford are now shield.

The home isn't just about saving architecture.

>> It's about investing in the community.

He grew up in.

It's not just about restoring the asset, right?

It's.

>> How's this acid actually going to work for the folks that live here?

How's it point to create some betterment that they can be proud of?

>> Walking through the home.

It's easy to imagine what it once This seems that some of same year probably breakfast.

Yeah, this it.

And when this was first designed this area was actually opened patio.

So it wasn't original design.

This is actually addition.

Despite years of wear and tear nearly everywhere, you look pieces of Wright's original vision remain.

>> Coming into this home and seeing this fireplace and harder still intact with the original bricks.

These breaks a very difficult to find a made in the 1900's.

>> The road map to revitalize this home is going to take time.

Shield says the organization's first priority is to stabilize the property before winter.

>> It's gonna take tremendous amount of fundraising effort to be able to bring this project.

>> You know, full realization.

>> The restoration won't come cheap shield estimates.

It will take close to 3 million dollars in fundraising to restore it.

>> It can actually serve a purpose community as a center.

What we can gather, we can take part in different types of events or forums or educational seminars and things like that.

>> Working on a project of this scale isn't new for shields.

He was one of many who worked on turning the shuttered school across the street into the Spire Center in Austin with community programs and resources for its residents.

He hopes this home can become another source of pride for the neighborhood.

>> I want them to feel the beauty of something majestic that is And that is here for them to experience and take part in and that they can brag about like, hey, that's in my neighborhood.

I live on that clock.

We have a frank Lloyd Wright.

People come from all over the world to see something in my community.

>> For Chicago join of non this.

And also coming together has a campaign to support the project to learn more about it.

You can head to our Web site.

>> Back to wrap things up right after this.

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