Highland Park, Illinois, is nationally known as the setting for Peter and Alicia’s home in The Good Wife, but locally it has long been known as a leafy, gracious suburb on Chicagoland’s North Shore. Nothing better typifies Highland Park homes’ historic character than two homes recently under contract, along with a much-ballyhooed sale last summer of a mid-century modern masterpiece better known as “Cameron’s house” from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Frank Lloyd Wright – George Madison Millard House
Built in 1906, this is the first of two Millard houses that Wright built. The sellers, Juan and Claire Montenegro, purchased the Millard house in 1992 when it was in poor condition and refurbished it. The couple first tried to sell it in 2011 for $1.399 million, but couldn’t find a buyer. Now, a few years and a few price drops later, a sale is pending for $799,000. Sixty-eight art glass windows make it a real beauty – let’s hope the new buyers are as good of stewards as the Montenegros have been.
[cycloneslider id=”flw-millard-house”]
James Speyer – Ranch Home
Built in 1952, this ranch home combines a homey, family feel with the glass-box aesthetic pioneered in part by Speyer’s teacher, Mies van der Rohe. Scott Kelly, a Redfin real estate agent in Chicago, says “This house is beautiful, especially for those who appreciate the values and principles of modernism.” It’s under contract for $625,000– and the new buyers are sure to enjoy the cork flooring and plenty of natural light.
[cycloneslider id=”james-speyer-ranch-home”]
James Speyer – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Remember that sweet Ferrari in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? We do, too! Remember when it rolled through a plate-glass window, into a ravine, effectively ruining Cameron’s life? Last summer, the home, affectionately known as “Cameron’s house” and designed by James Speyer in 1953, sold for $1.06 million.
[cycloneslider id=”bueller-house”]
Amazingly, these three Highland Park homes are within a mile of each other. When you consider that area is also home to Michael Jordan’s mansion, a wild Stanley Tigerman compound and plenty of beachfront properties, it’s clear that Highland Park is one of the most architecturally diverse and significant suburbs in the Midwest, if not the country.
If you’re interested in buying or selling a home in Highland Park, Redfin agents would be happy to help; you can get in touch with us here.
United States
Canada