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Edith Farnsworth House
Designed by International Style leader Ludwig Mies van der Rohe beginning in 1945-46, and constructed from 1949 to 1951, the Farnsworth House represents the apex of Mies' American career. Built as a country house for Edith Farnsworth, a single woman sympathetic to his aesthetic aims.
- Cost $74,167.95, per a final statement of construction costs dated February 20, 1951, in the HABS data pages
- Time to build: construction began in September 1949 and ended in 1951, per HABS data pages
Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. Library of Congress item. Full drawing: West Elevation at loc.gov. No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted.