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.
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.The house had a $38,859 property tax bill in the 2021 tax year.Advertisement
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