Holiday Party at Glessner House
December 15, 2009

Louis Sullivan Society members are invited to a festive gathering at H. H. Richardson’s Glessner House in Chicago’s Prairie Historic District. The house will be decorated in the grand Victorian style of a well-to-do family of the 1880s.

For information, call (312) 922-1742.

 

Fall at Farnsworth
October 25, 2009

Musicians from the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra played on the terrace of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed Farnsworth House as Louis Sullivan Society members toured the house and grounds of the mid-century modern masterpiece. Architect Dirk Lohan spoke about structure’s past and future stewardship.

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Chicago Conservation Center

March 17, 2009

Louis Sullivan Society members enjoyed a tour of the Chicago Conservation Center, one of the nation’s leading private art restoration and conservation laboratories, on March 17, 2009. Center president and Landmarks Illinois board member Heather Becker guided members through the various restoration departments

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Prairie Farmer Building 

December 4, 2008

Members were treated to a special behind-the-scenes tour of the historic Prairie Farmer Building, (1926-1928; Mundie & Jensen), in the original studios of WLS radio on December 4, 2008. This space now houses the extraordinary David R. Phillips Collection of the Chicago Architectural Photographing Company, which includes 100,000 vintage negatives covering early Chicago, its immigrant past, and its architecture.

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The Roger Brown Study Collection,
“Artists’ Museum of Chicago”
September 17, 2008

Site director Lisa Stone welcomed the Louis Sullivan Society to the former Roger Brown house, an 1888 storefront building at 1926 North Halsted Street. The house, which is owned by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was the home of artist Roger Brown from 1974 to 1996. It is one of 30 artists’ spaces in the National Trust’s consortium of “Historic Artist’s Homes and Studios”.

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