Here’s a thread of what I saw on a walk thru Evanston. Located right on Lake Michigan, this home was designed by architects Booth, Nagle & Hartray in 1977-78 for Ken Lehman who still lives here.

(Shhh I might’ve walked down a long driveway to take this pic, don’t tell anyone!)

Located nearby is this “private” street off Sheridan called Ingleside Park. The gate was open so I walked around because I don’t believe in rich people paranoia. I really liked this house, supposedly built for Dr. Reinholtzen in 1959. It was designed by architect Fred Schurecht.

This home gives me Dennis Blair vibes. Both Blair & Schurecht worked & lived in Barrington. Did Schurecht work for Blair? Not sure. I’ve been meaning to do a thread on Blair but here’s some of his work in case you’re unfamiliar w/him (homes he did in Highland Park & Long Grove)

The home next door ain’t bad either, plus it’s one lot closer to the lake. I’m finding info from the NRHP’s Northeast Evanston Historic District and according to them, it was designed by C.M. Chisholm in 1950. Looks newer to me. Or maybe alterations? Anyway, I like it.

Another James Nagle & Larry Booth design further down Sheridan Rd, which was designed for radiologist Dr. Harold Schwartz in 1977.

(My photo taken yesterday vs. old real estate listing. Looks like it got a fresh coat of HGTV white paint)

This 1976 modernist home was designed by architect J. Marion Gutnayer, a Holocaust survivor who studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts in France & became the 1st faculty member of University of Illinois Chicago's architecture dept. It was built for Herbert Krug who still lives here.

Across Sheridan is a Huebner & Henneberg-designed home (remember my thread on Park Ridge the other day) from 1974 (left). Around the corner (right) is a 1967 designed home by Robert Handler for relative Dr. Jerome Handler who lived here for 30+ yrs & died just 5 months ago at 93.

You can’t escape Booth, Nagle & Hartrey in this part of Evanston - surrounded by 19th century structures, this 1978 house was built for the Dacey family who still own it 42 yrs later, which appears to be a trend w/many of these modernist homes (so no interior pics out there).

Ending this modernist thread w/Northwestern’s concrete campus by the lake. As I took pics of Walter Netsch’s main library building (1970) during #goldenhour, I overheard a man say to his wife: “Can you believe that’s 50 yrs old?” Wife: “I don’t care how old it is. It’s hideous.”

How do they not see the beauty? In all seriousness, it’s fully expected to see brutalist architecture on a college campus, so why not have what I consider “the best” of the style by a well-known architect? Northwestern is lucky to have 7 buildings designed by Walter Netsch.