Crib Chatter

This 5-bedroom former dairy farm turned into a single family home at 321 W. Menomonee in the historic Old Town Triangle just closed. Normally I don’t crib on closed properties but it went under contract with days of being listed in late June. Built in 1918, the listing says its a former dairy farm which […]

This 3-bedroom townhouse at 171 W. Goethe in Old Town came on the market in April 2020. Built in 1986, it has 5 units with attached single car garages. The listing says this townhouse is 18 feet wide and has skylights. It has a first floor family room with a wood burning fireplace. Is this […]

This 3-bedroom Victorian single family home at 1836 N. Lincoln Park West in Old Town came on the market in July 2020. Built in 1872 for Charles Wacker (yes- THAT Wacker), it is on an irregular shaped lot measuring 27x125x27x102. If the house looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it in 2013, when it […]

This 3-bedroom duplex down at 224 W. St. Paul in Old Town just came on the market. Built in 1890, this condo complex has 4 units including one in a coach house behind the building. There’s no parking. We actually chattered about this unit way back in 2008 when it was converted into condos. Back […]

This 2-bedroom in 1515 N. Wells in Old Town just recently came on the market. Built in 2001, this building has 29 units and garage parking. This unit has 12 foot ceilings and has been “freshly painted.” There’s a master suite with a walk-in-closet and an en suite bathroom with a double vanity. The kitchen […]

This 2-bedroom duplex down at 1760 N. Wells in Old Town just came on the market. This is vintage building but it doesn’t say when it was built. It has 13 units and a common, shared deck. This unit has some vintage features including wainscoting and crown molding. There’s a gas fireplace in the living […]

This 3-bedroom duplex up loft at St. Michael’s Lofts at 1660 N. Hudson in Old Town came on the market in August 2019. Built in 1928, St. Michael’s Lofts was a former high school until it was converted into lofts in the 1980s. It has 41 units and garage parking. The building does not have a […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 1652 N. Cleveland in Old Town came on the market in May 2019. If it looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it in June 2019. Back in June, many of you talked about the crime in this part of the neighborhood and that there isn’t a 2-car garage […]

This 2-bedroom townhouse at 205 W. Eugenie in the heart of Old Town came on the market in October 2019. Built in 1978 on the corner of Wells and Eugenie, there are 11 units and parking. The main floor has the living and dining rooms along with the kitchen. The kitchen has wood cabinets, stainless […]

This 5-bedroom Victorian row home at 1843 N. Lincoln in the Old Town Triangle came on the market in October 2019. Built in 1882, it’s on a 20×80 lot but has both a back deck and a 1.5 car heated garage. This row home has many of its vintage features still intact including 13 foot […]