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Title
Farnsworth House
Description
he Farnsworth House is owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) and operated as a house museum by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois (LPCI). The National Trust and LPCI — with financial support from hundreds of contributors including the Friends of the Farnsworth House — were able to purchase the house for $7.5 million at an auction in New York City on December 12, 2003. The National Trust-LPCI partnership was able to outbid other prospective buyers at the auction, thanks to an urgent fundraising campaign that was quickly mounted after news of the sale at auction was announced fall 2003.
Both organizations feared that since the Farnsworth House was not protected by landmark designation, a prospective buyer could dismantle the house and move it to another state. David Bahlman, president of LPCI, and Richard Moe, president of NTHP, said in a joint statement “The Farnsworth House is one of the most significant residences built in the United States in the 20th Century. It would be an architectural disaster of the first order if it were moved from its original location. It’s not hard to envision someone wanting to take this masterpiece from its countryside setting to a theme park or a private sculpture garden.”
(photo left to right) Joe Antunovich ( LPCI Board Chairman), David Bahlman (LPCI President), Richard Moe (NTHP President) and Dirk Lohan, Lohan Anderson Architects, grandson of Mies van der Rohe at the Farnsworth House May 15, 2004 grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony. Photo Credit: Joan Hackett Photography.
Languages
English
Contact
- Landmarks Presevation Council of Illinois
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- Chicago IL
- United States 60604
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- +1.312922174
