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Farnsworth House
14520
River Road, Plano (Kendall County)
Landmarks Illinois (LI), the
National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) and Friends of the Farnsworth
House bought Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House for $ 6.7 million on December
12, 2003 at
Sotheby’s in New York. The group successfully outbid several interested parties.
David Bahlman, president of Landmarks Illinois, and Richard Moe, president of the National
Trust, said in a joint statement, “The Farnsworth House is one of the most
significant houses built in the United States in the 20th Century. We are happy
that it will be protected forever and made available to the public, particularly
to architects and students of architecture.”
Completed in 1951, this all glass marvel of modern architecture was originally
built for its namesake, the late Dr. Edith Farnsworth who commissioned Ludwig
Mies van der Rohe to design it as a weekend retreat for her. Arguably one of the
most architecturally significant houses of the twentieth century, the Farnsworth
House is a luminous rectangular home overlooking the Fox River just outside of
Plano, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago. The revolutionary house is only one
of three Mies van der Rohe residential designs in existence in the United
States.
To visit the Farnsworth House, please go to
farnsworthhouse.org.
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