A concrete, glass and steel house built in the 1950s by an architect who would become one of Chicago’s most noted church designers will get a complete rehab, instead of being torn down as other works of his have been.
“We want it stay the glorious living space it was meant to be,” Ann Oleinik said of the four-bedroom Barrington Hills house designed by Edward Dart. She and her husband, Kamran Foruhar, bought it July 2 for $550,000. “There have been a lot of Dart’s houses torn down,” Foruhar said.
The house has rough stone exterior walls that also show up in some interior rooms, a long dining room between two walls of glass, a gracefully curved staircase complemented by curving built-in furniture at its base, and original walnut cabinetry, a hallmark of midcentury design, in the kitchen and bedrooms.
Dart was about 32 when he built the main part of the house on Oak Knoll Road for himself and his wife, Wilhelmina. He added to it a few years later. In his career, Dart designed dozens of houses and 26 modern churches from Barrington to Gary, Ind., and led the architectural design of Water Tower Place. He died in 1975.
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