Photos: Inside Hampshire’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed farmhouse
Shayndel Valles, Staff Writer and Photographer|April 8, 2023
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The front porch of the Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023.
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The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023. The Usonian-style home is believed to be the only farmhouse designed and built by Wright completely within his lifetime.
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The entry hallway to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023. Built of Chicago brick and Southern cypress, the home features a heated concrete floor.
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Original family photos hang in the kitchen at the Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023. The Muirhead family was one of the first settlers in Kane County in the late 1800s.
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The kitchen inside the Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023. Mrs. Elizabeth Muirhead requested high ceilings and tall cabinetry in letters written to architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948.
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The dining room in the Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023. Natural light and a clear connection to nature were very important to American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Mike Petersdorf flips through a book highlighting works by Frank Lloyd Wright in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023. The bottom right desk and chair is located in the Johnson Wax Administrative Building in Racine, WI.
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The living room inside the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023. Recessed lights are located above the center of floor concrete tiles throughout the home.
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Mike Petersdorf reads through a copy of a letter written to Frank Lloyd Wright from the Muirhead family in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023.
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The front porch of the Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023.
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The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Muirhead Farmhouse in Hampshire, IL on April 6, 2023. The Usonian-style home is believed to be the only farmhouse designed and built by Wright completely within his lifetime.

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Kathryn Smith • Apr 10, 2023 at 2:21 pm
Correction: Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Randall Fawcett House, Los Banos, California on the family farm, H.G. Farms in 1955. It was built 1959-61 on about 1000 acres of orchards, crops, and a dairy.
Richard Anderson • Apr 12, 2023 at 3:23 pm
“. . . completely within his lifetime.” Wright died in 1959 so the article is correct.