A prescient work built in 1938 by a young architect who was just finding his voice.
The House
The Schweikher House is the only listing on the National Register of Historic Places in Schaumburg, Illinois.
A sophisticatedly organic integration of eastern and western cultural sensibilities.
The Architect
Paul Schweikher was the principal and senior partner in the firm Schweikher and Elting (1946-1958), chairman of the School of Architecture at Yale University (1953-1956), and the head of the Department of Architecture at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1956-1968).
