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  1. The house that architect Mies van der Rohe designed in 1952 for the member of one of the most prominent families in Chicago, Robert Hall McCormick III and his wife, the poet Isabella Gardner, is one of the three single-family houses designed by the architect in the United States. It is one of Mies’ less known works and in it the architect ...

    • Elmhurst, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  2. Jul 26, 2018 · Exterior view of Robert H. McCormick, Jr. house, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and originally located at 299 Prospect Avenue in Elmhurst, Illinois, November 28, 1952. It wasn’t long until it was moved from its original location and attached to the Elmhurst Art Museum via a fifteen-foot-long corridor three years later—a project that ...

    • Vasia Rigou
  3. Jul 3, 2017 · Built in 1952 for Robert McCormick Jr. – the owner of the land where Mies' 860-880 N. Lake Shore Drive was constructed – the house was moved down the street in 1994, where it was attached to ...

  4. The building, which McCormick used as a weekend house, was dismantled in 1994 and reerected in the grounds of the neighbouring Elmhurst Art Museum. While the steel construction was transferred intact, the building was originally conceived in conjunction with a parklike garden designed by the landscape architect Alfred Caldwell, and this ...

    • Elmhurst, Illinois, USA
    • 1951-1952
    • MIES VAN DER ROHE, LUDWIG
    • McCORMICK HOUSE
  5. The McCormick House—one of only three single-family homes designed by Mies in the United States—originally served two purposes: it was a home for the McCormick family and a prototype for a proposed group of smaller, affordable mass-produced modular homes in the western Chicago suburbs that McCormick and co-developer Herbert S. Greenwald were hoping to build.

  6. On the museum's campus is the McCormick House, a single-family home designed in 1952 by Mies van der Rohe, one of the great architects of the 20th Century. The McCormick House is one of only three residences designed and built by Mies in the United States – and one of only two open to the public. Enjoy spending time in this mid-20th century ...

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  8. Jul 5, 2017 · Completed in 1952, the McCormick House in Elmhurst, Ill., is a one-story, glass-and-steel structure designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Robert McCormick Jr., his sales agent for 860-880 Lake shore Drive in Chicago, and McCormick's wife, the poet Isabella Gardner. Now part of the Elmhurst Art Museum, the house originally served two purposes ...