out it. In 2009, Martyl helped set up the Schweikher House Preservation Trust to care for the house. The village government's agreement with the Schweikher House Preservation Trust was revised in early March 2013 to allow tours of the house. The tours attracted people who wanted to see both Schweikher's design and Martyl's art, in addition to historians. Martyl died shortly after signing the revised agreement with the Schweikher House Preservation Trust, and work began in earnest to convert the house and studio to a museum. That October, the village opened the house to public tours for the second time in the building's history. Originally, the house was open only for 48 hours a year, with one-hour tours hosted throughout the year. The village requested in 2015 that the house be given a tax exemption so that repairs on the house could be conducted. The next year, students from the University of Illinois System were invited to conduct studies of the house. In 2019, the village of Schau