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A log house built in the 1830s and now restored to reflect that era. The house is named after the Schmidt family, who immigrated from Germany in 1839 and lived in the historic house, and also for the Burnham family, who called it home from 1917 to 2001. The house is the oldest log structure in Cook County still in use. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Anita Willets Burnham Log House, also commonly known as the Schmidt-Burnham Log House, located at 1140 Willow Rd. in the Crow Island Woods of Winnetka, Illinois, United States, was the home and studio of artist and author Anita Willets-Burnham. The log house, which is 2+1⁄2 stories tall and made of hand-hewn, squared oak logs, was built approximately 1836 on a farmstead in south central Winnetka. In 1917, Willets-Burnham purchased the house from Indian Hill Club on the condition it be moved from their golf course, on the 9th green hole. It was therefore moved to 1401 Tower Road in northwest Winnetka; she placed an addition on the home in the same year. Willets-Burnham was a prominent painter whose work was based on Impressionism and realism, and she often painted outdoors; in fact, she discovered the log house while on a painting expedition. She continued her artistic career until the 1930s, when she became a writer and authored Round the World on a Penny, an account of her travels in the 1920s. Willets-Burham lived in the cabin until her death in 1956.
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Crow Island School is an elementary school operated by the Winnetka Public Schools. It significant for its progressive philosophy and its International Style architecture. Its design was a collaboration between the Chicago firm of Perkins, Wheeler and Will and Eliel and Eero Saarinen. It serves kindergarten through fourth grade students. The school was established in 1940-41. Sebastian Hinton's prototype "jungle gym" is located here, having been moved from Horace Mann School in 1940. The school was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1990.
This house was featured as the McCallister home in the 1990 film Home Alone and at the beginning of the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2. It's a private residence, not open to visitors.