African American architect John Moutoussamy designed this house for his own family in 1954. The house is located in Chatham, an upper middle-class neighborhood that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s with Chicago’s African American economic and cultural elite.

Moutoussamy designed this house in 1954 for himself, his wife Elizabeth, and three children John Jr., Claude Louis, and Jeanne Marie. At the time the house was built, Moutoussamy was working for PACE Associates, while the firm was involved with planning the modernist campus at IIT and the Chicago Federal Center in partnership with Mies van der Rohe.

The home continues to be used as a private residence.

"At Home in Chatham: A Bounty of Mid-Century Modern on the South Side, Where the African-American Elite Once 'Strutted Their Stuff'," New City Design, November 19, 2015.

Bey, Lee. Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side, Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2019.

Johnson Publishing Company Building Chicago Landmark Designation Report, 2017.