The steel-and-glass Chicago-area house featured in the 1986 film Ferris Buellers Daytime Off has sold for $1.06 million, according to a real estate brokerage. The two-building property in the suburb of Highland Park first came on the market five being ago, other than the selling held up because of the sagging real estate market and the houses identical specific architecture, according to Craig Hogan, director of Coldwell Banker Previews Global, the brokerages luxury division. The advertising price was less than half the imaginative listing price of $2.3 million.
Hogan described the Ben Rose Home as two glass cubes that are positioned over a ravine.
You have to be looking for to dwell there, Hogan held. Providentially, we found a duo who dotheyre in love with that approach. He could not reveal the owners identities.
The smaller of the two buildings played a part in the John Hughes coming-of-age film as the garage that seized a precious Ferrari convertible that Ferris, played by Matthew Broderick, and his buddy Cameron take for a joyride around Chicago.
Later in the film, the car crashes owing to a glass wall of the house into a ravine.
The modernist house was designed by A. James Speyer, a protege of draftswoman Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and David Haid, according to the website of Coldwell Banker. Reuters
