A five-bedroom, 6,080-square-foot midcentury modern house on Sheridan Road in Evanston that former Northwestern University head football coach Gary Barnett once owned was listed in late October for just under $3 million.
Built in 1968, the house was designed by architect Harry Shaxted, a former student of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Updated by its current owners, the house has three full bathrooms, two half bathrooms, a second-floor sauna, new hardwood and marble floors throughout, a hidden bar behind the family room bookcases, three restored fireplaces with relined flues, a mudroom and an attached and heated three-car garage. Other features include a primary bedroom suite with a fireplace and a balcony that overlooks a courtyard, and a kitchen with Thermador appliances, quartzite waterfall countertops and a coffee station.
Outside on the 0.36-acre property, which is little more than a stone’s throw from Lake Michigan, are front and rear courtyards with landscape design by Rocco Fiore & Sons.
Barnett, who was Northwestern’s head coach from 1991 until 1999, and his wife paid $814,000 for the house in 1996, and they sold it in 1999 for $935,000.
The current owners paid $1.25 million for the house in 2011. They first listed it on Oct. 27, and they went under contract to sell it several days later.
Listing agent Sally Mabadi did not respond to a request for comment.
The house had a $38,859 property tax bill in the 2021 tax year.
Bob Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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