This large duplex up 1-bedroom in the historic Fisher Studio Houses at 1209 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast just came on the market. Designed by Andrew Rebori and built in 1936, the building was sold as condos in 2000/2001. Most of the units are smaller duplex 1-bedrooms. The listing for this unit says […]
This 8-bedroom single family home at 2556 N. Kimball in Logan Square has been on the market since October 2011. The listing says it is the Spencer S. Kimball Mansion which was built in 1905. But after some digging around, it seems that the listing agent got the name wrong of the original owner- as […]
Another full floor 2-bedroom has come on the market in the historic Patterson-McCormick Mansion at 1500 N. Astor in the Gold Coast. If you recall, we have chattered about Unit #6, owned by the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, which has been on and off the market since September 2008. See our chatter on Unit #6 here. This […]
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 […]