Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, certainly the most flood-prone site in the National Trust for Preservation’s portfolio, is underwater again.

Floodwaters are threatening the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of modern architecture built in a flood plain along the Fox River. Photographs provided Tuesday by the National Trust for Historic ...

Farnsworth House sits far inland, but the techniques used to save it may one day be applied to historic homes threatened by rising seas. ... “The flood happens under the house. ...

What to do with Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, the lovely one-story pavilion of steel and glass that the neighboring — but not very neighborly — Fox River just can’t seem to leave ...

The essence of the Farnsworth House’s elegant, less-is-more beauty can be described in a single, inelegant term: site-specific. Located 58 miles southwest of Chicago, this white, precisely ho… ...

Students from Western Avenue Elementary School in Geneva, Ill., wait for their turn to tour the Farnsworth House on April 25, 2014, in Plano, Ill. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is ...

Flood waters threaten Plano's historic Farnsworth House. kfsn. By ABC30. Tuesday, April 23, 2013. ... The Farnsworth House was built in 1951 and is a national historic landmark.

As the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation prepares to meet in Chicago next week, support is coalescing around a plan to protect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House ...

Discover the third iteration of The Edith Farnsworth House. Over its lifetime, the house has undergone significant periodic flooding, with especially severe flooding events in 1996 and 2008 that ...

U of I Researchers are using Plano's Farnsworth House as a reminder to preserve and protect our past before it becomes ... was concerned about tornadoes, as was [Farnsworth], but also about flooding.

Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House Is At Risk. To protect against future flooding, preservationists want to raise Mies's masterpiece with hydraulic jacks.

In 2004, months after orchestrating the audacious $7.5 million bid to purchase and preserve Mies van der Rohe’s famed Farnsworth House, David Bahlman, who served as president of Landmarks ...