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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 ...
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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 incorpora...
Originally located at 299 Prospect Avenue, in the suburb of Elmhurst in Chicago, United States, it changed its location when it was sold, in 1991, by its last occupants Ray and Mary Ann Fick to the Elmhurst Fine Arts and Civic Center Foundation that moved the structure to the new campus of the Elmhurst Museum of Art, in Wilder Park and to its curre...
Its construction originally served two purposes: it was a house for the McCormick family and a prototype for a group of smaller and more affordable, mass-produced modular homes in the western suburbs of Chicagothat McCormick and co-developer Herbert S. Greenwald had hoped for build. The project that raised its budget due to the increase in the pric...
The McCormick House, a proposed prefabricated housing prototype for the western Chicagoarea, is composed of two displaced and terraced bodies that serve the purpose of creating separate wings, one for parents and one for children. The one-storey house has a 3-bedroom children’s wing, one of them for the maid, a games room, a full bathroom, a room f...
The structure of the McCormick House, of a single plant composed of glass and steel, sits on a concrete slab. In the side walls and in which the entrance is located bricks have been used.
- Elmhurst, Chicago, Illinois, United States
The McCormick Double House was built in 1875 as two attached row houses with a single entrance. For almost fifty years, two generations of the McCormick family, Leander James McCormick and his son, Robert Hall McCormick, called this house at 660 North Rush Street home. Mrs. Leander McCormick died here in 1899 and her husband a year later. The
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 ...
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 ...
History | Elmhurst Art Museum. History. In 1952, the renowned modern architect Mies van der Rohe designed a home for Robert Hall McCormick III, a member of Chicago’s most prominent families, and his wife, the poet Isabella Gardner. The home is a rare and important example of Mies van der Rohe’s mature style, incorporating elements of his ...
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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 ...
