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Description

Designed in 1938 by its first owner, the architect Andrew Rebori, as two separate structures, this Chicago Gold Coast house is commonly known as the Florsheim Mansion, after Lillian Florsheim, the shoe heiress and sculptor who bought the place from Rebori in 1946. Ten years later, Florsheim commissioned her son-in-law, the architect Bertrand Goldberg (who designed the revolutionary Marina City in Chicago), to join the two buildings at their second floors. He linked them with a black-laminate and stainless-steel kitchen meant to mimic the sleek lines of the era's streamlined railroad cars. The kitchen of The Florsheim Mansion has been featured in too many architectural magazines to list.