Five Midcentury Modern Dream Homes for Sale
Some retro-cool homes on the market in Rockford, Lake Bluff, and Lake Forest, as well as two in Michigan.
Some retro-cool homes on the market in Rockford, Lake Bluff, and Lake Forest, as well as two in Michigan.
Who would have thought to find a Peter Roesch-designed home in the land of McMansions?
Commuter-friendly properties in Flossmoor, Avalon Park, Kenwood, Near South Side, and Hyde Park.
We’re heading to Evanston, Tri-Taylor, Lincoln Park, Pullman, and Hyde Park-Kenwood for today’s roundup.
These five properties may inspire curiosity from the street, and they’re worth taking a peek inside.
In the 1880s, Bradley Thomas Batsford of London began publishing books featuring old English homes, including photographs, blueprints, and drawings, which eventually made their way to the U.S. It took a while to catch on, but with the 1911 publication of The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period, a “new” design trend began … Read more
This week I thought we’d go back to the 1950s with some multilevel modernist homes. The standout of the bunch is the property in Hyde Park, which carries the prestige of being designed by two giants of 20th century modernist architecture, I.M. Pei and Harry Weese. Constructed in phases from the late 1950s to 1962, … Read more
Most of these properties were built before World War II — but we had to throw in something from Marina City, for good measure.