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Preservation News
Success Stories
Featured Story:
Farnsworth House
14520
River Road, Plano
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.”
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Photo credit: Mel Theobald
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