Documents
Articles
“Charnley-Persky House Designated a National Historic Landmark” by Pauline Saliga, SAH Newsletter, December 1998
“The Charnley-Persky House: Architectural History and the Society” by Keith Morgan, JSAH, 54:3, September 1995
“Seymour H. Persky Gives James Charnley House to Society as National Headquarters”, SAH Newsletter, April 1995
SOM Foundation’s Chicago Institute for Architecture & Urbanism, Design Book Review 15, Fall 1988
SOM Foundation History
The Charnley House: From a Private Residence to Headquarters of the SOM Foundation
SOM Foundation: The Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism under Janet Abrams
Reviving the Charnley-Persky House
This film explores the rebirth of the historic Charnley-Persky House, designed by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright for Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. Following a restoration by SOM in the 1980s, the landmark property became the home of the SOM Foundation and the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism. Today, the exquisite building serves as the headquarters for the Society of Architectural Historians.
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SAH Archipedia
Learn more about the Charnley-Persky House on SAH Archipedia, a peer-reviewed encyclopedia of the built environment of the United States.