 The wealthy client wanted to build a very special work of modern architecture, however, toward the end of construction, a dispute arose between architect and client that interfered with its completion by the architect.Farnsworth had purchased the riverfront property from the publisher of the "Chicago Tribune", Robert R. McCormick.Mies developed the design in time for it to be included in an exhibit on his work at MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1947.