Crib Chatter

This 4-bedroom vintage Victorian single family home at 5227 N. Christiana in North Park has been on the market for a year. In that time it has been reduced $85,000 to $359,000. Built in 1911 on a 124.3×37.5 oversized Chicago lot, the house has 1600 square feet. There’s no garage, but there are two parking […]

This 3-bedroom Georgian at 5824 N. Drake in the Peterson Park neighborhood of North Park has been on the market since December 2010. It is bank owned. Built in 1941 on a 30×125 lot, the condition of the property doesn’t sound so great from the listing: “Condition requires cash or 20% D. P. Conventional offers […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom contemporary single family home at 5719 N. Jersey in North Park in March 2011. See our prior chatter here. Many of you were hung up on me calling it an “arts and craft” house so this time I’ll just say contemporary. No one had any guesses on how much […]

This 4-bedroom Arts & Crafts single family home at 5719 N. Jersey in North Park was built in 2007 along with three or four others that look just like it on adjoining lots. It was on the market in 2008 and 2009 and then withdrawn. The house recently returned and is now listed for $106,000 under the 2007 […]

Thanks to “Architect” for pointing out this 1943 2-bedroom Andrew Rebori designed home at 3252 W. Victoria in North Park. It is currently under contract but only after being reduced by $50,000 since July 2009. The home isn’t big, at 1345 square feet, but it has an original Edgar Miller sculpture and an “urban retreat” […]