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The Paul Schweikher House and Studio is an American modern residence located in Schaumburg, IL. Designed by architect Paul Schweikher and often considered one of his finest works, the home evidences his synthesis of the Prairie School with the International Style, Japanese architecture and the vernacular. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It is currently home to artist Martyl Langsdorf, designer of the Doomsday Clock.

History
Schweikher first sketched his design for the house he would name "South Willow" in November, 1937, during his return from a trip to Japan. In 1938, the home was built on a 7.5 acre site along the Salt Creek, which Schweikher had obtained in lieu of payment for his design and renovation of a barn on a neighboring property.

During his fifteen year residence, apprentices and fellow architects including Bertrand Goldberg, Ralph Rapson, Edward D. Dart, and William Metcalf would work at the studio, and the home frequently hosted prominent guests including Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe.

landscape details here too (lanscape architect.)

1947-50 added bedroom, office, garage (7)

1953 sold to langsdorf family, schweikher left to be chairman of Yale University's School of Architecture. (ref 2, 22)

incorporated into schaumburg?

198? acquired by water district by court order but family can remain (#5, #18 is especially good)

1987 added to register (added before it was 50 years old, see #7, #9, and especially #29 for notes on that)

19?? condemned/slated for demo (#2 talks about demo)

1997 added to schaumburg landmark list (#25)

1999 listed as one of the 10 most endangered historic sites in illinois (ref 10, 5, 13, #22 is specifically about this)

1999 bought by village fot $500k (#13, 5)

2002 refurbishing plans presented by vinci-hamp (5)

misc

 * Salt Creek (walking tour, #5)
 * Landscape Architect Franz Lipp (walking tour, nomination)
 * Included on Illinois AHA list of 150 great places (link to site, ref PDF) www.illinoisgreatplaces.com
 * 645 S. Meacham Road
 * Featured with six other vintage houses on HGTV special "Historic Homes of Chicago" (#4, also HGTV site)
 * Japanese dry garden (6,18,nomination)
 * cantilevered bedroom (6)
 * experimental solar heating (6)
 * some repair details such as replacing some brick and redwood. estimate $472000 (7 - from 2002)
 * water district spent more than $600000 acquiring and maintaining property over 11 years. (16)
 * solar room (18)
 * full wood bathrooms including cyprus showers (18)
 * helped revolutionize the way modern architects design kitchens, closets, carports (18)
 * exquisitely detailed fireplaces (nomination)
 * currently occupies 2.5 acre site that slopes to salt creek (nomination)
 * water district had 350 acres. house is at west edge, plant is at east edge.
 * include american vernacular as forms which inspired or whatever...
 * kitchen designed to be part of living area rather than hidden away (Ref'd in HGTV show)
 * solar energy from windows (hgtv, #5)

Bertrand Goldberg, Ralph Rapson, Edward D. Dart, William Metcalf, William Fyfe, David E. Hillis, I. W. Colburn
 * other architects who worked for him at the home (from the nomination):

Bertrand Goldberg worked there - ref#6 - I'M NOT SURE THIS IS CORRECT. I think Goldberg had his own office by the time this building was completed.... But according to the nomination, he was an apprentice to schweikher and a draftsman when the working drawings of the house was made. Edward Dart ref#6

stuff
It was was home to architect Paul Schweikher and his family from 1938 until 1953. Its two distinct single-story, flat roofed buildings, constructed of wood, brick and glass, are connected by a breezeway.

South Willow

It is composed of two distinct single-story, flat roofed buildings connected by a breezeway and constructed of wood, brick, and glass.

references i'd like to find...

 * Giedion, Siegfried. A Decade of New Architecture (1951)
 * Kaufmann, Edgar, Jr. What is Modern Interior Design? (1953)
 * court cases involving water district