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The 1,500-square-foot home on the banks of the Fox River isn't likely to land in the gossip pages. But it does have something in common with Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears: It's often stalked by photographers.
"They're the architectural paparazzi," says Whitney French, the historic site director at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's glass-and-steel house that's been a modernist icon since it was built in 1951.
For the first 53 years, the only way architects could see the house was to jump the fence. Even Mies van der Rohe's grandson, Chicago architect Dirk Lohan, saw the building for the first time through binoculars. The owner, Edith Farnsworth, a Chicago doctor who commissioned the weekend retreat, stared back at him through her own set, Mr. Lohan...