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- Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois -- Mies van der Rohe 1951
original owner: Edith Farnsworth, a Chicago doctor
-- "Just last month, the state of Illinois agreed to buy this modernist icon for $6.2 million, ensuring it will be preserved." (Cathleen McGuigan, nwk_01.06.25)
- Seagram Building, Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd, New York -- Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson 1958
client: Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Seagram Co., Phyllis Lambert
- Barcelona Chairs -- Mies van der Rohe 1929
- The German Pavilion at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona (Barcelona Pavilion)
demolished in 1930 and rebuilt in 1986
- Tugendhat House, Brno, Czechoslovakia -- Mies van der Rohe 1928? - 1930
- Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago Campus -- Mies van der Rohe
- New National Library, Berlin -- Mies van der Rohe 1968
- Snyderman House, near Fort Wayne, Indiana -- Michael Graves 1972
original owners: Sanford and Joy Snyderman
the house was Graves eleventh commission
-- "Sanford and Joy Synderman, parents of Nancy Synderman, medical correspondent of ABC's Good Morning America and 20/20, left the house in 1998 and sold it in December 1999 to developers Joseph Sullivan and William Swift. Sullivan and Swift have agreed to sell the home and 17.3 of their 40 acres of land to [Matt] Kelty if he raises $595,000 by the end of November. The developer plans to build approximately 40 to 45 homes on the 17.3 acres. ...
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-- "Less than $20,000 of the nearly $600,000 needed to purchase and save the Synderman House ... has been raised. A condemnation notice was placed on the house in mid-April, and the owner of the property could tear it down at any time." (arec_01.05)
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