Glass house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off for sale
370 Beech Street Highland Park, IL 60035
$2,300,000
$11,666 per month | Personalize this estimate | Check local mortgage rates
4 Bed, 4 Bath | 5,300 Sq Ft on 0.75 Acres (32,670 Sq Ft Lot) |
MLS ID #07218797
THE BEN ROSE HOME-site of the famous movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, cantilevered over the ravine, these two steel and glass buildings, which can never be duplicated, have incredible vistas of the surrounding woods. This is a unique property designed by A. James Speyer and David Haid, both notable architects of the 20th Century. Estate Sale Sold -No disclosures! This is an amazing architectural treasure.
I know this is Bay Area, but I simply had to share this. Thanks to Burbed reader Brendan for this find.
Wow. It’s the Ferris Bueller Day Off house. How super cool! And yours for just $2.3 million! (You know that if it were in some place truly amazing like Sunnyvale, near Cupertino, this would be $4 million because of the more amazing views.)
Hey, have there been any movies shot in Real Bay Area homes? There’s gotta to be something. I mean, we have all these stunning examples of amazing architecture scattered about… there must be something!
June 12th, 2009 at 7:26 am
That’s so cool!
June 12th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Quite a few movies were shot in Palo Alto.
Heck, there is even a movie called Palo Alto.
June 12th, 2009 at 8:22 am
I wonder how effectively something like that does thermal insulation.
June 12th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Stuff shot in Sunnyvale too:
http://www.imdb.com/List?locations=sunnyvale,%20ca&&substrings=on
June 12th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Cool!
Not that I would buy it. I’ve never been a big fan of houses that are built on a cliff face. A little too precarious for me.
Kind of symbolic of the housing bust though. With housing falling off a cliff metaphorically, this house mimics it literally too!
June 12th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
It’s a house! It’s a box! Does it come with a mime? It’d better!
June 12th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Ugh I looked at the list. Those are just the kind of movies I’d expect to be filmed in Sunnyvale.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
How about this. $300k in Boston. For a parking spot!
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/12/bostonian-ponies-up-record-300-000-for-parking-space-average-a/
June 12th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
That’s funny money!
Right, bob? =)
June 12th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
#8 – how much is the parking spot’s cost per square foot?
June 12th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
> How about this. $300k in Boston. For a parking spot!
I hear some would pay much more for a Stanford Shopping Center parking spot
June 12th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
me thinks we need one of these here in pa:
http://img2.moonbuggy.org/imgstore/soccer-not-allowed.jpg
June 12th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
That’s how you get the little crumb crunchers to run faster – a little incentive.
June 14th, 2009 at 8:16 am
To answer in part your question about films shot in the Bay Area – yup, tons!
First one that comes to mind (since I just watched it recently) is the cult classic “Harold and Maude” starring Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort. Harold’s home in Hillsborough is located on Stacey Ct – off Eucalyptus. (the entire film was shot in the Bay Area – interesting to watch it now, almost 40 years later and see what one can recognize between 1970 and 2009…so much has changed. Webpage with locations:
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5862/xharoldlocations.html
The Filoli Estate in Woodside has been featured in many films – two of my favorite Filoli films are “Heaven Can Wait” (1976) and “George of the Jungle” with Brendan Fraser. Also featured in the 1980′s as the Carrington estate on the TV series “Dynasty”. And BTW – a great place to take your mother in law if she happens to be visiting the area – I can speak from experience on this
the house and gardens are nothing short of magnificent.
The Hugh Grant film “Nine Months” was shot around the Bay Area. I remember when they shot some scenes at Talbot’s Toyland – the scene where Hugh and Tom Arnold get into a fight with a purple dinosaur! (Talbot’s is definitely worth a visit as one of the few remaining ‘old bastion’ toy/hobby stores…also has one of the best all-around bicycle shops you’ll find anywhere – and if you’re into model trains or cars, it’s a Bay Area mecca – the two sons of the co-founder now run the place and they are very customer-service oriented. I always buy kids’ birthday and baby shower gifts there as they have great service and free giftwrapping).
For a time back in the 1910-20′s there was a movie studio located in San Mateo (silent films of course). Although the studio is long gone the building remains – it’s on Peninsula Ave about a block east of the train tracks, across the street from a Shell station (part of the building is a sushi restaurant at this time).
One of my favorite family comedies, “Yours, Mine and Ours” (1968) NOT the remake but the classic Henry Fonda/Lucille Ball original, was filmed throughout the Bay Area. Not sure where the big house the family lived in is located (I’m guessing somewhere around Alameda) but the homes where the two families lived at the beginning of the film were in the officer’s residence area at the Alameda NAS.
And of course so many films that did not include houses…the Dirty Harry films…Bullitt…I could go on.
Great website (incomplete however) with filming locations in NorCal:
http://www.filminamerica.com/PacificNorthwest/NCA/
June 15th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Dangerous Minds was set in EPA. Quick, everyone flock to buy property there — it probably comes with free crack from Coolio.
April 4th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Reduced to $1,800,000.
To make it complete, buy the Ferrari featured in the movie too (“Bonhams Collectors’ Motor Cars and Automobilia Auction estimates that it will go for £30,000-40,000, or roughly $45,000-67,000“).
March 13th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Reduced to $1,650,000 in August last year, and listing has been removed 3 times so far.