Ludwig Mies van der Rohr - Final Resting Place - Chicago, IL, USA
N 41° 57.620 W 087° 39.622
16T E 445275 N 4645582
Graceland Cemetery is the graveyard of Chicago architecture giants including Ludwig Mies van der Rohr, Louis Sullivan, John Root, William Holabird, Howard Van Doren Shaw, William LeBaron Jenney, George Elmslie, and Bruce Goff.
Waymark Code: WM2RYB
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 12/16/2007
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True to his designs Mies' gravemarker is an unadorned slab of black granite simply inscribed with his name and the years of his life.
Well worth the pilgrimage (
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