Sid Robinson, the eighth owner of the well-known Ford House in Aurora, shares history of his home on Edgelawn Drive Tuesday at the Kiwanis Club of Aurora meeting at the Prisco Center.
Robinson purchased the house, known as Aurora’s other roundhouse, in the mid-1980s. It is made from materials including coal and green glass. The house was designed by architect Bruce Goff and built in 1949-50 for artist and art teacher Ruth Van Sickle Ford and her husband, civil engineer Sam Ford.
Robinson, an architecture professor at UIC 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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