Historic Schweikher House Tours Available October 11
The Schweikher House Preservation Trust invites the public to tour the 1938 Paul Schweikher home and studio, a Modernist home listed on the National Register of Historic Places and one of the top 150 architectural sites in Illinois.
Forty minute guided tours of the house, studio and grounds will be offered on Saturday, October 11. Pre-scheduled tours will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting on the hour at the property located at 645 S. Meacham Road in Schaumburg. The cost of the tours is $25 per person, paid in advance of the event with a maximum of 12 persons per tour. For registration, visit http://schweikherhouse.org/tours/, call Executive Director Todd Wenger at (847) 923-3866 or email info@schweikherhouse.org.
Tours of the house will feature Schweikher's masterful integration of brick, glass, and wood, including an iconic brick fireplace, passive solar room, cantilevered construction, exposed wood beams, built-in furniture, a Japanese soaking tub, raked gravel courtyard, and gardens designed by the noted Midwestern landscape architect Franz Lipp.