Last Updated on January 27, 2017
The famous Ferris Bueller glass house where Bueller’s best friend “killed” his own father’s sports car is now off the market.
You know what they say about people who live in glass houses, right?
(If you don’t, you can click this link to see that someone has spent far too much time thinking about it.)
In any case, the famous glass house used in a portion of the 1980s hit Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has sold for a whopping $1.06 million. It took five years for someone to sign on the dotted line.
That doesn’t really surprise me, because, after all, who’d want to live in a house made of glass? I mean, I think a nice view is a wonderful thing, but if the view for neighbors is me 24/7, well, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
CBS News reports that the home, which was built in the Modernist style in 1953, originally was listed at $2.3 million, which means that the buyer got quite a bargain.
Relatively speaking, of course.
In the 1986 movie, it served as the home of Cameron Frye, Bueller’s best friend, where Frye’s neglectful father paid more attention to his Ferrari than his own son. After Frye, the title character Bueller and Bueller’s girlfriend skip school for a wild day of fun in the car, they have it on blocks with a brick on the accelerator while the car is in reverse, in a futile attempt to reverse the car’s odometer.
Frye, talking about his dad, becomes angry with his dad’s obsession and begins kicking the car until the jack holding it up gives way and the Ferrari crashes through one of the large windows and into the wooded canyon below.
Bueller looks at the scene and turns to Frye and says, “You killed the car.”
Weird house. But still a great movie.
I suppose there’s something appealing to some about living in a glass house. Here’s one of the best known examples, lived in by Philip Johnson from 1949 until his death in 2005, conceived of it as half of a composition; the other half was a more traditional brick house that people couldn’t see through. That makes much more sense to me.
As a packrat who caught a double dose of packrat from both parents, the idea of living in a house whose clutter was that visible is a definite no-go.
Would you have the gumption to live in a glass house?
I’ve never seen the movie. I wonder if it’s any good.
Darn it Patrick lol….the downside of traveling all over the world, I’d never make a purchase like this cause I’m always on the move 😉