Historical society offers tour of train museum, Wright farmhouse

Join the Mount Prospect Historical Society on Saturday, May 3, for a daylong bus trip, first to Union, Illinois, for a morning tour of the Illinois Railway Museum, followed by an afternoon tour of one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian homes in Hampshire.

The tour departs 101 S. Maple St., Mount Prospect, at 9 a.m., and the cost for the day is $100 for Mount Prospect Historical Society members and $115 for nonmembers. Participants can register and pay online at mtphist.org.

Between tours, the group will stop at Hampshire’s Copper Barrel restaurant, where you may purchase lunch. You can check the menu at www.barrelonstate.com.

Tour-goers will have plenty of time at the Railway Museum to peruse and possibly ride — on their own — the many trains, both diesel and steam, and streetcars on display there.

After lunch the group will tour Frank Lloyd’s Wright’s Muirhead Farmhouse, built in 1951. Unlike the Wright homes in Chicago, Oak Park and River Forest, which display Wright’s early “Prairie style” of architecture, this farmhouse shows his later Usonian architectural style. Wright built most of the homes in this style outside of Illinois, so it is a treat to see one here.

Participants should be aware the trip requires considerable walking and the ability to climb and descend bus stairs.

For information, call (847) 392-9006.