A Trip to DeKalb for NIU Basketball-- Part 2: The President's House

Earlier last week, I had come across an article about the NIU president's home being for sale.  We did not even know that NIU had a president's home.  So, we figured to go looking for it.

We turned off Il-23 by Quentin-Rosette School north of downtown, and started driving around back in that area.  Liz and looked its location up, but had not brought the information along with her.  We didn't find the house.

I just looked it up and it is at 901 Woodlawn Drive, about five minutes from campus.  It was built in 1952, has 6,000 square feet and listed for $295,000.  The lot is 1.3 acres.  It was sold to NIU's President Rhoten Smith in 1968, who gave it to the NIU Foundation in 1970.

It had been used by each NIU president since then until the newest one, Lisa Freeman, who already had a house in DeKalb and chose not to live in this one.

Since it was now surplus property, it was decided to sell it.

The President's House.  --RoadPres