File:SECOND FLOOR, GENERAL VIEW FROM WEST TO EAST, STAIR TURRET IN CENTER - House Of Tomorrow, 241 Lake Front Drive (moved From Chicago, IL), Beverly Shores, Porter County, IN HABS IND,64-BEVSH,9-21.tif
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- Significance: The House of Tomorrow is important as an artifact of the 1933-34 Century of Progress exposition, as an early example of the work of architect George Fred Keck, and as a record of the effects of European modernism on American architecture in the 1930s. With its innovative structural system, glass walls, stripped-down ornament and modern materials, the House of Tomorrow embodied the ideals promoted by the fair and by modernist architects: science and technology as sources for design and as symbols of progress and future prosperity. After the close of the exposition in 1934, real-estate developer Robert Bartlett capitalized on this symbolic value, moving the house to Beverly Shores, Indiana in order to stimulate interest in his subdivision there.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N254
- Survey number: HABS IN-243
- Building/structure dates: 1933 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1935
- Building/structure dates: 1935 Subsequent Work
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