This was the home of Donald D. Dunning and his wife Elizabeth. The couple were married in 1951 and resided in Niles, Michigan. Donald was later transferred to Toronto where he was the president of the Kawneer Company. They lived in Toronto for 10 years. The couple had two daughters and one son. A daughter named Ann who attended the Wayland Academy in Wisconsin (1961). They were residing in the Toronto home in 1961 according to my research. In 1972 they moved to California.
Records show that in 1965 a man named Jack C. moved into the home. Jack passed away in 2019. He may have been the owner at that time, the same year when the house was sold. The house was then leased out until June of 2020. It was listed on the market and sold in 2022.
The property is valued at approximately $5 million.
Based on the interior design, I’m thinking that the house hasn’t been updated since it’s construction in the early 1960’s.
The rear of the house features a ceiling to floor window sun room. Perhaps this is where Jack grew his tomatoes. Jack was a serious tomato grower and gave seminars on growing. The front of the house also features ceiling to floor windows. The ceiling contains an unusual design by today’s standards with full length wooden slots.
Don Dunning also designed and constructed this home and it is wonderful to see that Jack maintained the original contemporary design. Don married his wife Elizabeth (Betty) in San Mateo, California, and after relocating to Toronto in 1956, they moved into this home on Daleberry Place in 1957 a year after their only natural child (Julie) was born at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Don’s 1st two children were adopted together with his first wife (Jane) before she passed away of ovarian cancer. His son remained in Canada (during the Vietnam War) when Don was transferred back to Kawneer in Niles, Michigan as Executive Vice President in 1963. He retired in 1972 and the family of three moved to inland, North County San Diego, California so Don could play golf 7 days a week. When Betty was also diagnosed with cancer in 1988, Don’s daughter Julie moved home (from Los Angles) to care for her mother until her passing in 1989. She subsequently cared for her father until his passing in 1998. Kawneer Canada commissioned Irene Marx to paint the home for Don as a parting gift when he was transferred, and that painting now inhabits his daughter Julie’s Arizona townhouse as a reminder of her time in Canada until the ripe old age of 7.
I love this house! Needs some love. But $5 Million?