Crib Chatter

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 […]

This 2-bedroom in Lake Shore Plaza at 1000 N. Lake Shore Plaza in the Gold Coast came on the market in November 2019. Built in 1964, Lake Shore Plaza has 132 units and valet parking. It’s a full service building with a pool, exercise room and doorman. According to Emporis, 1000 N. Lake Shore Plaza, […]

This 4-bedroom first floor duplex at 65 E. Goethe in the Gold Coast came on the market in May 2019. 65 E. Goethe was built in 2001 and has just 18 units and a parking garage. It was built as a luxury building and has a doorman. This unit is unique in that it is […]

This 3-bedroom row house at 855 N. Dearborn in the Gold Coast just came on the market. It’s the row house on the far right in the picture above. If you remember, we chattered about a 3-bedroom triplex in one of these row houses in May 2019. We concluded that this wasn’t a former mansion, […]

This 3-bedroom in the Astor Villa at 1430 N. Astor in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2019. The Astor Villa was built in 1972 and has 49 units and assigned parking. It has a doorman and exercise room. We chattered about the sister unit to this one, #4C, back in September […]

This 4-bedroom vintage row house at 47 E. Division in the Gold Coast came on the market in March 2018. Built in 1886, it has 4800 square feet on a smaller than normal Chicago lot measuring 16×86. It has an attached 1-car heated garage and a rooftop deck with a built-in gas grill. There are […]

This 3-bedroom in Benjamin Marshall’s Gold Coast masterpiece at 1544 N. State Parkway came on the market in May 2019. 1550 N. State Parkway was constructed in 1912 and has just 32 units. It’s exterior is covered in limestone. It has a doorman but no parking. The building also has a shorter side building with […]

This 4-bedroom row house at 55 W. Schiller in the Gold Coast came on the market in June 2017. Built in 1868, the listing says it is an Adler-designed property. It’s on a 18.5 x 106 lot. The listing also says it was completely renovated in 2017 with a top floor addition. It has oak […]

This 2-bedroom in Ten East Delaware at 10 E. Delaware in the Gold Coast came on the market in April 2019. Ten East Delaware was new construction just as the housing bust hit in 2009. It has 115 units and a parking garage. It’s a full amenity building with doormen, a pool and exercise room. […]

This 2-bedroom on the 35th floor of The Bristol at 57 E. Delaware in the Gold Coast came on the market in October 2018. The Bristol was built in 2000 and has 178 units, an indoor pool, and a parking garage. At that time, it was one of the first new build “luxury” buildings and […]