Ferris Bueller wannabes—like me—with enough money—unlike me—have a reason to be happy: The stunning Ben Rose Home, which was Cameron’s house in the movie, is now available for sale.
The property includes two buildings. One of them was used as a garage/car museum in real life and in the movie. The home has four bedrooms and four full baths, with beautiful forest views. Total size: 5300 square feet. But beyond the Ferris Bueller lore, the Ben Rose Home—designed by A. James Speyer and David Haid—this is my dream home: Simple, elegant, built with glass, aluminium, cedar wood, and steel over a wild ravine in the middle of the Highland Park’s woods, in Illinois. In other words, Grade A architecture/property porn.
If I had the $2,300,000 I would buy it in a heartbeat. Sadly, I don’t. Who wants to buy this for me? Anyone? Anyone? [Realtor via Retro Thing]
Nathan
May 27, 2009 at 4:06 PM
The car in the movie was a fake…
ripped from the Trivia section on IMDB – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/trivia
Cameron’s father’s Ferrari wasn’t a real Ferrari. Because it was too expensive to rent one, they made three fake ones with a fiberglass body.
The 1961 Ferrari GT250 was a modified MG sports car. The producers received several angry letters from car enthusiasts who believed the car shown was a *real* Ferrari and that it was actually wrecked in the film.
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So if you think that throwing in the car with the house for 2.3 mil would make it fair you would be getting ripped off twice.
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