The Prairie School Review is a monograph on the work of Wright, Sullivan and their contemporaries, Griffin, Elmsie, Drummond, Van Bergen, etc., the only indigenous modern architecture in America. The Prairie School flourished from 1890 to 1915, and the wanton destruction of many important early modern buildings during the early 1960s was the impetus for Marilyn and Wilbert Hasbrouck to establish the magazine in 1964.

In the premier issue the editors stated, "We prefer to call our Review a monograph rather than a magazine or journal primarily because we intend to confine our work and study to the rather narrow field known as "Prairie School (or sometimes The Chicago School) of Architecture." We do this not because we feel that other architecture is of less import, but because this field represents the first truly "American architecture."

Fortunately some of the surviving Prairie School architects and their colleagues from the early twentieth century were still alive and willing to provide material in the early issues. Articles were also written by architectural historians including Paul Sprague, David Gebhard, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, David Van Zanten, and others.

An important feature of The Prairie School Review was the inclusion of measured drawings. Again from the editors' initial statement: "Not since the demise of the White Pine Monograph Series has any periodical devoted regular space to measured drawings. Nothing is so successful as an accurate measured drawing in recording architecture, be it the smallest carved detail or a multistoried facades." Copies of original drawings were often included as well.

Publication of The Prairie School Review ceased in 1981. In 1991, the Hasbroucks donated the complete archive of their records of The Prairie School Review to the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries of the Art Institute of Chicago. Burnham Library Architectural Archivist Mary Woolever stated, "(The Prairie School Review) was the Sullivan-like germ from which scholarship in this area has grown over the past two decades."

Individual copies and sets of The Prairie School Review are available from The Prairie Avenue Bookshop. Individual copies are $10.00; double issues are $20.00. Complete sets of the Prairie School Review are available for $400.