You won’t find this Frank Lloyd Wright-designed farmhouse (the one and only) by looking for it, the single roadside proclamation on a simple black mailbox: “Muirhead Farm.”

Leaving a small, country two-lane west of Elgin, my wife, son, and I pull onto a gravel driveway and duck beneath a B-Western movie wood-beamed railroad trestle before spotting a long cypress-sided house with lawn to flat-roof windows.

We join beneath a low eave Mike Petersdorf (married to Sarah Muirhead), our docent, and a group of about twenty. With the heat index over 95, we’re glad when he guides us inside where we’re asked to take off our shoes. The low ceilings (six feet, eight inches) would have our attention if it weren’t for the sweet, young family cat who sniffs one stockinged – or barefoot after another wit

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