Ferris Bueller House For Sale
May 28th, 2009 Posted in Famous Homes
Ben Rose House
Cleve pointed out to me that “Camerson’s house” was recently listed for sale. This is the house where Cameron and Ferris crash Cameron’s father’s prized Ferrari 250 GTO through a window and down an embankment (while attempting to run the odometer backwards to cover up their joyride).
Designed in steel and glass and built in 1953 in Chicago’s tony Highland Park area, the contemporary Ben Rose House (and Auto Museum) manages to look right at home among the trees with sun-dappled ravine below. The house itself comprises 5300 square feet and was designed by A. James Speyer, an architect with Mies Van Der Rohe’s firm. The Pavilion was designed later, in 1975, by another Mies protege, David Haid.
Rose lived in the home until his death in 2004. His wife, Francis, continued living there until her death earlier this year. Listed at $2.3 million, the house is being sold “as is” and probably needs some renovating. (For example, one funny anecdote about the house relays that its original design included stucco interior walls. Ben Rose paneled over the stucco due to its constant cracking. All was well, until during dinner one night: the stucco cracked and fell behind the panelling and the dining room filled with dust!)
–Kara Peterson
More photos of the Ben Rose house
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