Judy Gibbons, current NASBAR President and Chairman of the Board of the Northshore Barrington Area Realtor Association and her company Hunters Fairway Sothebys International Realty have been selected amongst other luxury home Realtors in the Barrington region as the listing agent of a rare and distinctive lakefront, prairie modern house designed and built by renowned architect Milton Schwartz.
Milton Schwartz was born in Chicago in 1925, learned architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1943-1947, apprenticed in Chicago and acquired his architectural license in 1952. Schwartz opened Milton Schwartz and Associates in 1951, which successfully operated right up until 1985. His career was unorthodox because he was concurrently a builder, developer and an architect. His buildings were concentrated in Chicago in addition to close by cities such as Waukegan, Illinois, and Indianapolis, Indiana, where Schwartz developed apartment buildings. In Chicago his buildings included hotels, motels, and high-rise apartment buildings as well. In the 1960s Schwartz was also the architect for the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, where he designed numerous residential buildings including a 22-story addition and two large restaurants. Schwartz’ buildings were showcased in a 1993 convention at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Schwartz had occasionally discussed his boyhood in Chicago and with regards to the enormous influence of his immigrant father whom was a plumbing and HVAC contractor. Schwartz’ exposure to building and construction at an young age created his desire to become an architect. Mr. Schwartz had undertook studies at the University of Illinois, where he heard lectures by Frank Lloyd Wright, who was an electrifying touring presenter. Schwartz had been chosen to complete construction plans right after World War II for the Navy on installations in the Chicago area. Milton Schwartz had continued by building much larger development structures. His initial significant design and construction project, a 21-story condominium structure, 320 Oakdale, is currently located nearby to Chicago’s Lincoln Park, which he built as a much younger man. Mr. Schwartz had gone on to develop the Executive House (a modern-day hotel), inside the heart of Chicago, which was in fact then one of the tallest reinforced concrete architectural structures in the entire world. Schwartz may possibly be appreciated best for his work in Las Vegas as architect for the Dunes Hotel in the decade of the 1960s, during which time the owners reopened a closed property and continually built on to it, with Schwartz as their head designer.
This contemporary treasure with Prairie Modern architecture was build in 1962. The home is set on five plus private acre parcel with more than 160 feet of lake frontage on Honey Lake in North Barrington. The house is in spectacular condition and features walnut flooring, and spacious contemporary living, fully finished walkout basement, and more than 5,400 feet of living space.
Come and see this masterpiece of a household by one of Chicago’s most revered architects. The home is listed for sale by Judy Gibbons of Hunter’s Fairway Sotheby’s International Realty. Feel free to contact Judy to setup a showing at: 847-381-7100, and pictures can be found at http://www.huntersfairsir.com.
