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Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, IL

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Edith Farnsworth House

Tour Mies van der Rohe's glass-walled weekend house, raised on steel columns above the Fox River floodplain.

14520 River Rd · Plano, IL

About Edith Farnsworth House

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed this glass and steel house for physician Edith Farnsworth, completing it in 1951. It sits about five feet above the floodplain on eight steel columns, with a travertine terrace and an open-air veranda at its western end. Guided tours leave from the visitor center and include a half-mile walk to the house, so dress for the weather. The National Trust for Historic Preservation owns and operates the site.

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