Fabyan's villa

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The Fabyan Villa (photo 2010) is now a museum

The Fabyan Villa , located near Chicago in the American state of Illinois , was the residence of George Fabyan (1867–1936) and his wife Nelle Fabyan, born from around 1908 to 1939 . Wright. He was a very successful businessman who made a million dollar fortune from the textile trade inherited from his father.

The villa is characterized by the fact that it was rebuilt in 1907 by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). It was included in 1984 in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) ( German  "National Directory of Historic Places" ) (see also: List of entries in the National Register of Historic Places in Kane County ). Today it is the Fabyan Villa Museum and can be visited.

history

Not far from the villa, also on the Fabyan estate, are the Riverbank Laboratories (photo 2007)

The mansion is the centerpiece of the Fabyan estate. It is an approximately 120  acre property called the Riverbank Estate , which is located directly on the Fox River in northern Illinois. Fabyan also set up his private think tank here for the purpose of researching various scientific and pseudoscientific issues, the Riverbank Laboratories  (picture) . This research institute dealt intensively and successfully with cryptanalysis and deciphered encrypted messages of the Central Powers and Mexico during the First World War . American officers were also trained in cryptology here . It also included an acoustics laboratory that was built by the American physicist Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919) and, after his death, expanded by his cousin Paul Sabine (1879-1958) to become one of the leading acoustics institutes in the United States. In 1947 the laboratory was taken over by the Armor Research Foundation (ARF) , now the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute (IITRI) .

The Fabyan Mansion and most of the estate were acquired by the Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Illinois in 1939 . He converted the villa into a museum that can still be visited today. In 1995 the Preservation Partners of the Foax Valley (PPFV) took over the management of the property and villa. Today's Fabyan Villa Museum is a historical museum of local history , in which photographs, personal belongings of the Fabyans and some of their furniture are made available to the public. The PPFV offer tours through the estate and the villa from time to time (see also: Weblinks ).

Web links

  • Preservation Partners of the Foax Valley at PPFV.org (English)
  • Forest Preserve District of Kane County at KaneForest.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fred B. Wrixon: Codes, Ciphers & Other Secret Languages ​​- From Egyptian Hieroglyphics to Computer Cryptology . Könemann, Cologne 2000, pp. 595-596. ISBN 3-8290-3888-7 .

Coordinates: 41 ° 52'16 "  N , 88 ° 18'44.1"  W.