Monthly Archives: March 2019

The Glessner House on Display with Director and Curator, Bill Tyre

Chicago’s Glessner House is a National Historic Landmark that was designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson and completed in 1887 for John Glessner and Frances Glessner. The structure served as an inspiration to architects such as Louis Sullivan, Mies van Der Rohe, and the young Frank Lloyd Wright. It helped redefine domestic architecture.