Article: Farm fresh. (walk through).(Teng and Associates designs Kline Creek Farm Museum)

WINFIELD, ILLINOIS, LIES JUST 45 miles west of Chicago. As recently as 20 years ago, land in this area was still being farmed. Not so today. The rural landscape is rapidly fading--except on the 1,100 acres surrounding Kline Creek Farm. An 1890s farmhouse set amid fields of corn, hay, and soybeans, the living-history preserve depicts the simplicity of agrarian life as it once was.

To prepare 21st-century urbanites to step back in time, the Chicago office of Teng & Associates built a 2,400-square-foot visitor center at the start of the footpath leading to the farmhouse. Principal design architect Thomas Hoepf encapsulated decades of typical farm buildings by ...

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