Charles Gates Dawes House

( August 15, 2012 )

One of the most accomplished, yet largely unsung, citizens of the Chicago area had a home near the shore of Lake Michigan that now houses the Evanston History Center -- and that was a stand-in for the Playboy Mansion during the short-lived shooting of last year's television series "The Playboy Club." Dawes, who, like Addams, won the Nobel Peace Prize (his was in recognition of the Dawes Plan for post-World War I reparations), was a U.S. vice president under Calvin Coolidge, and an ambassador to Great Britain, among many other things. He and his wife, Caro, bought the 1894 French Chateaux-style home (which also has English Renaissance Revival tones) in 1909. It was originally designed by Henry Edwards-Ficken for Evanston minister Robert Sheppard, who was also a business manager for Northwestern University.

225 Greenwood St., Evanston; tours Thu.-Sun. for $10; 847-475-3410 or evanstonhistorycenter.org

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