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This 2-bedroom duplex up in the Frank Fisher Apartments at 1209 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in March 2020. Designed by Andrew Rebori in 1936, the building has 13 units and a 2-car garage with a center courtyard. It has historic landmark designation. The building was rental apartments until […]

This 4-bedroom in the Park Newberry at 55 W. Delaware in the Gold Coast just came on the market. Built in 1996, the Park Newberry has 182 units, attached garage parking, and doormen. It has a unique circular driveway with a fountain in front of the entrance. The listing says this is a “1-year old […]

This 2-bedroom at 1510 N. Dearborn Parkway in Gold Coast came on the market in December 2019. Built in 1900, this building actually has 18 units and an elevator. While it has the vintage charm on the outside, the interior vintage character was stripped out of these units decades ago. This unit, which appears to […]

This 3-bedroom in Benjamin Marshall’s Gold Coast masterpiece at 1544 N. State Parkway came on the market in May 2019. We chattered about it several times in the past including last December 2019 after it had been renovated. See our chatter here. 1550 N. State Parkway was constructed in 1912 and has just 32 units. […]

This 2-bedroom in the Mantonya Flats at 1325 N. Dearborn Parkway in the Gold Coast just came on the market. Built in 1887, the Mantonya Flats were designed by Curd H. Gottig. There are 3 units and assigned tandem parking behind the building. This building is iconic thanks to its distinctive arched keyhole style windows. […]

This 6-bedroom new construction mansion at 1241 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in May 2018. We last chattered about this house in 2018 when it first came on the market. If you recall, it was built after an 1872 worker’s cottage was sold by a long-time owner and torn […]

This 4-bedroom vintage home at 38 E. Schiller in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2019. It looks old, but according to the listing, only the 1887 façade is original. The rest of the house is a new steel beam construction home rebuilt from the foundation in 2001. It’s on a smaller […]

This 2-bedroom on the 26th floor in State Tower at 1230 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast just came on the market. This building was construction in 1979 and has 92 units and an attached garage. It’s a doorman building which also has a club room, an exercise room and a rooftop deck. This […]

This 2-bedroom in the Park Newberry at 55 W. Delaware in the Gold Coast just came on the market. The Park Newberry was built in 1996 and has 182 units and a parking garage. It’s a full amenity building with an exercise room and doorman. The listing says this unit has a 4-season view of […]

This 5-bedroom historic home at 1328 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in October 2018. Built in 1938, the house, known as the Florsheim Mansion, was designed by Andrew Rebori and then added onto by Bertrand Goldberg in the 1950s. There are actually two separate townhouses with a courtyard and […]