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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 ...
- Elmhurst, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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 ...
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 ...
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McCORMICK HOUSE. Robert McCormick, one of the project developers of the Lake Shore Drive Apartments, commissioned Mies to build one storey of the towers at ground level for use as a private residence. The prefabricated frame construction was delivered by lorry and erected in two days.
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 ...
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.
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Jun 29, 2017 · Soon, though, Mies enthusiasts will find it far easier to visit one of the architect's other, often-overlooked properties: the McCormick House. The one-story home in Elmhurst, Illinois, designed ...