Muirhead Farmhouse Site Spared from Power Lines
Photo by Andy Olnick
In 2015 the Conservancy joined with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Landmarks Illinois and local preservation organizations to prevent utility company ComEd and the Kane County Forest Preserve District from implementing a plan that would route new 140-foot electric line towers through preserve land and within 400 feet of the Wright-designed Muirhead Farmhouse (1950) in Plato Township, Illinois. A member of the Muirhead family still owns the Usonian house,…
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