Property of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Levin, Olympia Fields, Illinois | Architects: George Fred Keck and William Keck

The sun-bathed courtyard is the fresh- air core of the suburban Chicago house that Mr. and Mrs. Harold Levin built on the premise that a house and all its pleasures belong to the children as well as to the parents. The living room, the dining room and the entrance hall all open to the court, and so does the big glass-walled playroom shared by Michael, 11; Debbie, 8; and Ellyn, 4. All year round parents and children together enjoy the visual delights of the court's sun and shadows, its planting of trees and flowers and its placid pool. In spring the children watch the birds return to the birches; in summer they love to dangle their feet in the pool. And for fully seven months of the year, Mr. and Mrs. Levin can use the court for their own leisure hours and for entertaining.

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source: House and Garden Magazine | April 1959