Built work
Col. George Fabyan Villa
- Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Place
- Geneva, Illinois, United States
- Construction
- 1907
- Design / archive date
- 1907
- Catalogue reference
- FLWFA 0703 / S.129
Fabyan Villa in Geneva, Illinois in a park at 1511 S. Batavia Ave. On the NRHP since February 9, 1984. House rebuilt by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907. Across the Street from the Riverbank Labs, which is associated with the same family and is also on the NRHP. In the same park, but across the Fox River is a famous windmill, moved there by the family.
Japanese garden at the Fabyan Villa, Geneva, Illinois, c.1920s
Architecture & history
Fabyan Villa was the home of George and Nelle Fabyan from c. 1908 to 1939. The house is notable because of its remodelling in 1907 by Frank Lloyd Wright. It was the centerpiece of the Fabyans country estate, which they named Riverbank. The Kane County Forest Preserve District of Illinois purchased the majority of the Fabyan estate in 1939, and operated the Fabyans' home as a museum off and on beginning in 1940. In 1995 Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley was enlisted to operate the site and developed the Fabyan Villa Museum into a Fabyan historic home museum, where photographs, the Fabyans' personal artifact collections, and a limited number of original furnishings, as well as the Riverbank story are shared with the public.
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