Crib Chatter

This 5-bedroom Victorian Italianate single family home at 3945 N. Tripp in Old Irving Park came on the market in March 2019. But if it looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it several times between 2007 and 2014 when it was on, and off, the market. See the 2014 chatter here. If you recall, […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 1340 E. Madison Park in Kenwood came on the market in June 2019. The house was built in 1885 but an addition was put on the back of the house in 2005 which added a separate eat-in kitchen and family room as well as a modern back deck. It’s […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 3635 N. Hamlin in Irving Park came on the market in May 2019. While on the map it appears to be in the Villa District, a historic neighborhood, this house is on the east side of the street which is filled with homes built in the last decade. So […]

This 4-bedroom Tudor mansion at 1221 N. Astor first came on the market in July 2013. It has been on and off the market since then with the latest listing coming on in February 2019. Built in 1892 on a 50×67 irregular Chicago lot, it has a 12 foot gated entry with 3 parking spaces […]

This 7 bedroom historic home at 5132 S. Woodlawn in Hyde Park came on the market in May 2019. Built in 1897, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Isidore Heller. To be honest, until I saw the plaque in front of the house, I couldn’t tell from the style it was a Wright […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 4904 Pershing Place in St. Louis’ Central West End came on the market in June 2019. Built in 1897 it’s on a small lot and doesn’t appear to have any parking. But it’s on what the listing calls a “coveted” private street which has an assessment of $450 a […]

This 5-bedroom mansion at 5165 Lindell Boulevard in Central West came on the market in May 2019. Built in 1908 by architects Mariner & La Beaume, the listing describes it as the “golden age” of St. Louis architecture. Lindell runs on the north side of Forest Park, the largest urban park in America. It is […]

This historic 4-bedroom brick single family home at 2309 S. 12th in Soulard in St. Louis came on the market in April 2018. Built in 1890, it is a rare home that is on a double lot measuring 50×142 in the historic Soulard neighborhood which has small, irregular lots laid out by the French. The […]

I recently spent some time in St. Louis. St. Louis was the fourth largest city in America at one point (as was Charleston, South Carolina, incidentally.) Much of its historic architecture remains. Is St. Louis a buying opportunity for architecture lovers priced out of Washington DC, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia? I’ll be cribbing on St. […]

This 3-bedroom cape cod single family home at 4838 N. Seeley in Lincoln Square just came on the market. If it looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it back in 2011 when it was a “cottage.” 8 years ago, many of you thought it should be torn down and that no one would want […]