Famous Gen X favorite 'Ferris Bueller' movie house with glass garage for Ferrari is up for sale

May 31, 3:29 AMExotic Car ExaminerKae Davis

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Gen X with buying power take notice: a famous teen dream Ferrari classic house available for purchase on the real estate market. Who will be the next lucky owner of the Chi-town classic? We hope it will be a car collector who understands the historical memorabilia value of living in the house that has itself inspired so many auto collectors nationwide to build themselves additional detached showroom garages.

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"The luxury abode, known as the Ben Rose Home, is located in Illinois' Highland Park and the asking price is $2.3 million. The house is made of steel and glass and served as the location for the pivotal scene in the film, when Cameron defies his father and kicks his prized car through the glass garage." Yep -- we remember seeing it happen from a front row, middle row, and back row seat when the blockbuster film first hit the theaters -- because the car scenes were so awesome and the angst so post-modern and simpatico with the era that we simply could never see enough of it.

The heavily treed suburbs of the Chicago area are a lovely place to live. The city itself has even been nominated as one of the top ten places for Gen X and Gen Y to live. The home itself was built in 1953 and offers the new residents a comfortable amount of estate living space fit for a modest family. The main house includes four bedrooms and four bathrooms, but really -- to be able to hang out in THAT garage all day and reminisce? The inside of the home, no matter how comfortable or elegant, can never be as priceless as owning the garage that made it so famous.

According to a full report by reporter Kevin Bass of the New York Times:

The steel and glass house immortalized in the pop classic movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is for sale... The original house, located in the wooded Chicago suburb of Highland Park, was designed by A. James Speyer, a protégé of Mies van der Rohe, in 1953. The glass pavilion, designed by the noted architect David Haid, was added a few years later, according to Meladee Hughes, a listing agent at Sudler Sotheby’s International Realty.

In the movie, the house was home to Bueller’s friend, Cameron. His father used the glass pavilion to display his red Ferrari, which (spoiler alert!) ultimately ended up in the ravine that the house overhangs... The four-bedroom, 5,300-square-foot house is priced at $2.3 million, according to the listing.

“It’s not just about the car going in the ravine,” Ms. Hughes told the Chicago Sun-Times. “It’s just a wonderful property.”

Here's a thought: can you imaging what a cool gift it would be to actually get a house like this for a birthday present? Here's to hoping some famous celebrity car guy like Jay Leno picks this beautiful property up and will keep the car filled with all the glamor and luxury it deserves simply for being what it is -- or for someone fun like Matthew Broderick to pick it up and turn it into a vacation rental home available to exotic car enthusiasts.

This is the kind of clean line home that functionally uses space and terrain to make the building a part of nature, much like a Frank Lloyd Wright design or a house the is easy to picture fictional character Howard Rourke of Ayn Rand's classic novel "The Fountainhead" designing with the extra garage alongside to keep his own concept car collection in; so, for the preservation of Ferrari pop culture history and teenage movie classics, there is only one more thing left to say:

SAVE FERRIS!

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**** SAD NEWS UPDATE: Director John Hughes passed away of a heart attack in early August of 2009. Here are the links to the CELEBRITY DEATH tribute articles written by the Exotic Car Examiner:

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