Sidney Robinson, owner of the well-known Ford house in Aurora, shares history of his home on Edgelawn Avenue Monday with the Rotary Club of Aurora.
Robinson purchased the house known as Aurora’s other roundhouse in the mid-1980s made from materials including coal and green glass. The two-bedroom, 1,600 square foot house, was designed by architect Bruce Goff and built in 1949-50 for painter and art teacher Ruth VanSickle Ford and her husband, civil engineer Sam Ford.
Robinson, an architecture professor said when he moved to Illinois from Iowa he saw the house and had to have it.
The house has been featured many times, including in Life Magazine in 1951 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
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