The Shingle Style, properly known as the Arts & Crafts Movement, grew out of the English movement initiated by William Morris and Charles Voysey; it found its own expression via the Boston exhibition of 1897. A reaction against the excesses of Victorian architecture & design, it became a hallmark of original, American style, perhaps best exemplified by Greene & Greene, Bernard Maybeck, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The serene, tree-lined streets of Oak Park, River Forest, and Riverside maintain a remarkable collection of Wright's oeuvre, showcasing the Prairie Style not only in its development, via Wright's own work as an emerging architect, but in its fulfillment as the product of a uniquely Midwestern approach to design. This influence can be seen throughout the region, not only in the historic suburbs of Chicago, but across the Midwest, where its proponents developed new forms, meeting the needs of a rapidly expanding and evolving population and lifestyle.