Perhaps someone who subscribes to Crain's Chicago Business can read the full article and pass along the address for the home so we can see the realtor listing:
Modernist home in Winnetka going on sale for first time since 1979
David
For sale: Don Erickson house - Winnetka, IL
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Re: For sale: Don Erickson house - Winnetka, IL
I wonder if those diamond-mullioned windows are original. They look wildly out of place.
Re: For sale: Don Erickson house - Winnetka, IL
http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.co ... -home.html
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article ... ed-by-bank
https://balibrary.org/files/ericksonbio.pdf
https://modernil.com/about/
https://billiongraves.com/grave/Don-Erickson/4475169
The Chicago Tribune supposedly ran an obituary in 2006 but their own search utility doesn't find it.
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https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article ... ed-by-bank
https://balibrary.org/files/ericksonbio.pdf
https://modernil.com/about/
https://billiongraves.com/grave/Don-Erickson/4475169
The Chicago Tribune supposedly ran an obituary in 2006 but their own search utility doesn't find it.
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Re: For sale: Don Erickson house - Winnetka, IL
Thanks; that's what I found too. Let me know if the obit is anywhere on that page. False advertising, Google ?
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Re: For sale: Don Erickson house - Winnetka, IL
That is the full obituary at that link.
David
David
Re: For sale: Don Erickson house - Winnetka, IL
How odd. I get the paper's front page---the full slate of stories they're running today. When I go to Obituaries, the lead one is Betty White's. That's from your link, and from the one I find on Google when I search Don's name.
My firewall is turned off . . .
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My firewall is turned off . . .
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Re: For sale: Don Erickson house - Winnetka, IL
Don Erickson: 1929 - 2006
By Graydon Megan and Special to the Tribune
Chicago Tribune
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October 27, 2006
A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect Don Erickson's 55-year career featured houses and buildings that were delicate, beautiful and always original.
"Every building is a unique piece of art," said his wife, Patricia, citing a building she and her husband called the Bird Cage apartments near Ridge and Pratt Boulevards on the Far North Side of Chicago.
"[The building] inspired me to become an architect," said Mettawa architect Thomas Heinz. He said Mr. Erickson's design incorporates thin vertical black metal elements reminiscent of bird cage wires against a creamy rough stone structure.
Perhaps Mr. Erickson's best-known design is Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, completed in the 1980s. To avoid the boxy look and long corridors of many hotels, he designed a pyramid shape with hexagonal rooms and interior spaces and a six-story atrium lobby.
Mr. Erickson, 77, died of multiple myeloma, which he battled for 13 years, Tuesday, Oct. 24, in his Barrington home.
Mr. Erickson grew up around Chicago. His father built staircases and his mother was a classical pianist, and he was torn between music and architecture.
He was drawn to Wright after seeing some of the architect's buildings near his home in Portage Park. His father gave him a book of Wright's work, which prompted him to pursue architecture at the University of Illinois at Navy Pier, where he began in 1948 after graduating from Proviso High School. As the story goes, he told a professor that an assignment was "not the way Wright would do it." The professor responded by telling Mr. Erickson that if he liked Wright so much, he should go study with him.
Mr. Erickson was initially turned away from Wright's Taliesin studio in Wisconsin and drove to a pay phone and called the studio. Wright answered and agreed to take him on as an apprentice if he would go to Wright's Taliesin West in Arizona. He was with Wright for three years, splitting time between Arizona and Wisconsin until he started his own practice in 1951.
"Don considered Mr. Wright a second father," his wife said. "It was a very powerful time in his life." Wright is said to have put his arm on Mr. Erickson's shoulder while telling him the world had enough musicians and what it needed was good architects.
By 1952, Mr. Erickson was building his first house, for his parents, in Inverness. In December of that year, he married his first wife, Shirley Erickson. She said that instead of a honeymoon in Mexico, the couple spent two weeks driving icy roads to look at Wright houses in Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.
The couple soon built a house for themselves near Palatine. By 1966 they had a house on 10 acres on the north side of Barrington and lived there with their three children. A tornado in April 1967 destroyed the home, but Mr. Erickson rebuilt on the foundation and lived there the rest of his life.
Mr. Erickson spent some time in the 1970s helping to establish a design program at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. While there he met and married his second wife, Sharon Dam. They later divorced.
Mr. Erickson was co-founder in 1998 of the Association of Licensed Architects, where he sought to offer architects continuing education and other benefits at reasonable dues.
Patricia Lusk renewed an acquaintance with Mr. Erickson in 1989 when she asked if she could be an unpaid summer intern in his office as part of her course work in interior design at Arizona State University. She said the experience featured a great deal of work. They were married six months later on her Christmas break, before she went back to finish work on her degree.
"We were beautiful together as a team," she said. Their collaboration won a recent Sub-Zero Kitchen Design Award as well as an award for an addition at what is now Fifth Third Bank in Wauconda. "He lived and breathed architecture," she said. "He was still working up until last week."
"He stood up for what's right and true," Heinz said. "You can see that in his buildings--honest buildings from an honest man."
Other survivors include three daughters, Karyn, Elizabeth and Shay Dam-Erickson; a son, Don; and a grandchild.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, in Mr. Erickson's home, 26280 W. Illinois Highway 22, Barrington. A memorial ceremony will be held at 7 p.m.
David
By Graydon Megan and Special to the Tribune
Chicago Tribune
•
October 27, 2006
A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect Don Erickson's 55-year career featured houses and buildings that were delicate, beautiful and always original.
"Every building is a unique piece of art," said his wife, Patricia, citing a building she and her husband called the Bird Cage apartments near Ridge and Pratt Boulevards on the Far North Side of Chicago.
"[The building] inspired me to become an architect," said Mettawa architect Thomas Heinz. He said Mr. Erickson's design incorporates thin vertical black metal elements reminiscent of bird cage wires against a creamy rough stone structure.
Perhaps Mr. Erickson's best-known design is Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, completed in the 1980s. To avoid the boxy look and long corridors of many hotels, he designed a pyramid shape with hexagonal rooms and interior spaces and a six-story atrium lobby.
Mr. Erickson, 77, died of multiple myeloma, which he battled for 13 years, Tuesday, Oct. 24, in his Barrington home.
Mr. Erickson grew up around Chicago. His father built staircases and his mother was a classical pianist, and he was torn between music and architecture.
He was drawn to Wright after seeing some of the architect's buildings near his home in Portage Park. His father gave him a book of Wright's work, which prompted him to pursue architecture at the University of Illinois at Navy Pier, where he began in 1948 after graduating from Proviso High School. As the story goes, he told a professor that an assignment was "not the way Wright would do it." The professor responded by telling Mr. Erickson that if he liked Wright so much, he should go study with him.
Mr. Erickson was initially turned away from Wright's Taliesin studio in Wisconsin and drove to a pay phone and called the studio. Wright answered and agreed to take him on as an apprentice if he would go to Wright's Taliesin West in Arizona. He was with Wright for three years, splitting time between Arizona and Wisconsin until he started his own practice in 1951.
"Don considered Mr. Wright a second father," his wife said. "It was a very powerful time in his life." Wright is said to have put his arm on Mr. Erickson's shoulder while telling him the world had enough musicians and what it needed was good architects.
By 1952, Mr. Erickson was building his first house, for his parents, in Inverness. In December of that year, he married his first wife, Shirley Erickson. She said that instead of a honeymoon in Mexico, the couple spent two weeks driving icy roads to look at Wright houses in Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.
The couple soon built a house for themselves near Palatine. By 1966 they had a house on 10 acres on the north side of Barrington and lived there with their three children. A tornado in April 1967 destroyed the home, but Mr. Erickson rebuilt on the foundation and lived there the rest of his life.
Mr. Erickson spent some time in the 1970s helping to establish a design program at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. While there he met and married his second wife, Sharon Dam. They later divorced.
Mr. Erickson was co-founder in 1998 of the Association of Licensed Architects, where he sought to offer architects continuing education and other benefits at reasonable dues.
Patricia Lusk renewed an acquaintance with Mr. Erickson in 1989 when she asked if she could be an unpaid summer intern in his office as part of her course work in interior design at Arizona State University. She said the experience featured a great deal of work. They were married six months later on her Christmas break, before she went back to finish work on her degree.
"We were beautiful together as a team," she said. Their collaboration won a recent Sub-Zero Kitchen Design Award as well as an award for an addition at what is now Fifth Third Bank in Wauconda. "He lived and breathed architecture," she said. "He was still working up until last week."
"He stood up for what's right and true," Heinz said. "You can see that in his buildings--honest buildings from an honest man."
Other survivors include three daughters, Karyn, Elizabeth and Shay Dam-Erickson; a son, Don; and a grandchild.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, in Mr. Erickson's home, 26280 W. Illinois Highway 22, Barrington. A memorial ceremony will be held at 7 p.m.
David
Re: For sale: Don Erickson house - Winnetka, IL
I would say that whichever homeowner added the diamond-mullioned windows also picked the horrendous light fixtures. Other than that....