Elmhurst Art Museum

The Elmhurst Art Museum will conduct a comprehensive historic structures report on the McCormick House, one of only three houses designed by 20th century architect Mies van de Rohe in the United States. The museum will also register the house with the National Register of Historic Places; conduct a condition assessment and develop a plan for conservation and restoration; gather feedback from the community, historical architecture organizations, and institutional partners to inform development of new programming for and about the house; and engage a visiting curator to utilize the gathered information in developing new interpretive materials and programming to raise awareness of the house. The museum's goals in undertaking this work are to identify and follow best practices as the steward of a historically significant structure, and to share access and knowledge about that structure with a broader audience of architectural visitors.