Posted on 06/01/2014 5:16:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
the Chicago-area home featured in the film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" has found a buyer. COLDWELL BANKER
The Chicago-area home where Ferris Bueller's friend Cameron famously "killed" his father's prized Ferrari finally has a new owner.
Crain's Chicago Business reports that the modernist home in Highland Park sold Thursday for $1.06 million, five years after it first came on the market.
Craig Hogan is regional director at Coldwell Banker Previews. He wouldn't say who bought the four-bedroom, steel-and-glass house built on the edge of a wooded ravine.
The house, built in 1953 by Mies van der Rohe-protege A. James Speyer, was first put on the market in 2009 listed at $2.3 million.
The sleek house was featured in John Hughes' 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" as the home of Cameron Frye (played Alan Ruck). After the Ferrari crashes through the glass into the ravine, Ferris (Matthew Broderick) tells Cameron: "You killed the car."
Mies van der Rohe fans unite. He was a genius IMHO.
I could NOT afford the house but the price seems low for a house like that.
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I don't remember many scenes from inside the house shown in the movie, besides Cameron's room.
If you don’t mind living in a cold steel and glass box like a canary.
Did they use yesterday’s news papers for carpeting?
Stunning house!
Abe Froman.
Little swales like that are called “ravines” in Illinois?
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The sausage king of Chicago?
Here’s another! I’d love to live in a house like this! Brings the outside inside! Gotta have a very private lot though.
http://theglasshouse.org
Yuck! Barf! Hideous house! No charm, no warmth, no comfort.... you couldn’t give it to me for free.
Yes, so imaginative, like a box.
(we’ll all be living in boxes soon, if people keep on buying washers and refrigerators that those boxes contain anyway)
Dittos!
I thought he died. Oh wait, that was Abe Vigoda.
I’m not defending the house...haven’t seen it (other than the garage in the movie)...but I like van de Rohe’s work...the whole Bauhaus movement.
It’s beautiful.
I hope the new owners don’t throw stones.
So,,, what are you living in? A fake Colonial? If one has the right lot, one can live with nature as one’s backdrop. Almost like living outside!
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