“I went in blind and just gasped,” Jennie Bishop of #ADPRODirectory firm bishopthestudio recalls of arriving at the impeccably preserved home, adding, “I was saying silent prayers that they would not rip things out or depart from Erickson’s vision.” In the court of public opinion, acolytes of great architects are rarely treated as legends themselves. Take Chicago-area architect Don Erickson, who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin from 1948 through 1951. Although the Chicago Tribune lauded Erickson’s work as “delicate, beautiful, and always original” after his death in 2006, Bishop reports that most of his houses “are often purchased and torn down or so drastically changed that you can’t recognize them.” Tour the carefully updated midcentury-modern gem at the link in our bio. Photography by heathertalbert;styled by kimberlyswedelius ; words by David Sokol