Having moved from the city out to the Western Suburbs of Chicago when I was about 8 years-old, I was certain that all the mystery of this land had vanished or been swallowed up by the "sinister sprawl". Yet, I was recently and delightedly surprised when I discovered an architectural treasure (thank you CBB) in Schaumburg, Illinois!
The place...Paul Schweikher's Home & Studio. Back in the 1930's the area was known as Roselle, but it had been annexed many years ago and is now Schaumburg. Having lived in Roselle when I was younger, I was shocked to learn that a stellar architect's home & studio was so close to where I spent much of my life.
It was difficult to find tons of detail about the home & studio, but I did dig up this old 2002 article online and I did find a book at the Schaumburg library with new clippings regarding the home and its subsequent owners after Schweikher moved out.
We were able to get an interview with the building architect and will be posting all the details in the coming week for our new monthly feature, Living PrairieMod.
Images courtesy of www.vinci-hamp.com
There are two Schweikher buildings at Marysville College, Marysville TN. The music building is a very fine organic style building in red brick - across the street is a chapel in a buff colored brick in the International style! Schweikher's house in Sedona AZ has been quite widely published and is a very fine work of architecture. At one time (early sixties) there was a Schweiker house in Scottsdale AZ that was a real gem done in desert masonry with lapped board siding, etc. that looked like the design came straight out of Taliesin. At the time I saw it - it was abandoned and about to be bulldozed.
I read many years ago that Will Bruder had Schweikers drawings and was going to do a monograph on his work. I've never heard anything further on that.
Posted by: Larry Martyn | Jul 01, 2009 at 10:10 AM
is there a place on the web to view the plans and drawings of the house?
Posted by: palmar kristmunds | Feb 13, 2010 at 11:57 AM