We are blessed again with pictures of Dr. and Mrs. H's family and home, courtesy of their wonderful family and to whom I am very grateful.What moves me about seeing these, and I believe what is inherently compelling about these images -- is that we see the house being loved and cared for by a family. Seeing it as a home.
This resonates with me particularly at a difficult time when people are losing their homes. Let us all be thankful for what we have, reflect on the good times, and look forward to better times ahead.
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cool, thanks!
Thanks for stopping by, Jeremy :)
I just surfed here from the Eichler Network, I have the same wall lamp as in the Living Room 3 Photo, but not in a mid-century setting. Nice to see how the house was originally furnished.
That's really cool, David! I'm always fascinated with vintage photos of people and interiors. There are more photos of the original interior in an earlier post on this blog. Thanks for your comment :)
Gretchen, you are lucky to both have those photos for historical reasons and reasons on the house.
They had really good taste in furniture, not too much "designer" mid-cent as you'd see know and more personal.
My parents almost bought a Keck house when I was really young. Keck & Keck are the ultra-uber high end custom versions of the Eichler aesthetic in the Chicago area - many solar and super sleek houses from the 30s to the 70s.
But we ended up in a vintage apartment building and am in something similar now.
Not familiar with Keck+Keck so of course had to look it up. Fascinating! Here's a link for those of you who are interested http://www.chicagobauhausbeyond.org/cbb/mission/keck.htm I am learning more and more about various builders in other states who were contemporaries of Eichler and find it very interesting.
BTW, cool blog, David! Read his blog here -- http://chicagoapartment.blogspot.com/
CBB is great. Keck & Keck's most famous work is the House of Tomorrow from the Century of Progress Exhibition of 1933 in Chicago. The house was moved to Beverly Shores, Indiana, as a gimmick and currently being restored (along with several other houses from CoP).
And thanks for the plug.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/indu/history/House%20of%20Tomorrow.htm House of Tomorrow -- so glad it is being restored! Great history intel, David :)
Gretchen, you are so lucky to have these photos! Every time I see yours, I think I've got to try to contact our previous owners to see if they'd like to share any photos.
Thanks so much -- the original owners' family has been delightful. I do hope to meet them in person some time, perhaps tomorrow (we have tentative plans and they live out of town).
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