This 2-bedroom penthouse in The Commodore at 550 W. Surf in Lakeview comes with an illustrious past. The prior listing said the living/dining room was the old ballroom and this tidbit from the Upper Bracket column in the Chicago Tribune from 2003 confirms it. On the sixth and top floor of the Commodore building, 550 W. Surf St., […]
As many of you know, I normally don’t cover suburban properties but for a historic house like The Mundy House at 185 Michaux Road in Riverside, I will break my own rule. Built in 1868 and designed by William LaBaron Jenney, a Chicago architect who specialized in commercial structures and is now known as the […]
We last chattered about this 4-bedroom full floor unit in the Playboy Mansion at 1340 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast in September 2011. See our prior chatter here. Originally listed for $6.7 million, it was reduced to $5.8 million. It recently sold just 9 months after it came on the market for $5.2 […]
This 4-bedroom on the 14th floor at 399 W. Fullerton in East Lincoln Park just came on the market. The co-op building was built in 1927 and is on the National Historic Register. There are 32 units with the elevator opening to two units per floor. The building has two tiers of units, the East Tier […]
This 6-bedroom historic rowhouse on the landmarked Alta Vista Terrace at 3825 N. Alta Vista Terrace in Lakeview first came on the market in June 2010. We last chattered about it in October 2010. See that chatter here. This is apparently one of only 4 three-story rowhouses that also have a basement on the street. […]
Mrs. O’Leary’s cow didn’t burn down this 4-bedroom Victorian at 2029 N. Seminary in Lincoln Park. Built in 1861 on a 25×124 lot, the house pre-dates the Chicago fire (making it among the oldest houses we’ve ever chattered about) and the oldest in West Lincoln Park. The listing says it was originally a farmhouse. With 3 fireplaces it […]
We’ve chattered about this 12,000 square foot historic mansion at 2100 W. Pratt Boulevard in West Ridge several times in the last year. See our June 2011 chatter here. Back in June, it had been reduced to $1.89 million from $2.45 million. Many of you thought that was getting more reasonable and that it might […]
We last chattered about this vintage 6-bedroom single family home and coach house on the landmarked Terra Cotta Row at 1048 W. Oakdale in Lakeview in August 2011. See our prior chatter here. Also known as the Henry Rohkam Mansion, 1048 W. Oakdale is a rare property for a neighborhood as dense as Lakeview as it […]
This 4-bedroom single family home at 579 W. Hawthorne in Lakeview is located on the landmarked “Hawthorne Place District” which consists of a block of single family mansions on large lots. Here’s more from the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce: Hawthorne Place is one of the few streets along the city’s north shore that was developed for-and […]