In honor of the debut of the new television show called “The Playboy Club” on Monday (which actually is being filmed in Chicago) and that Playboy Magazine has decided to charge 60 cents for its October issue as it did in October 1960, just one year after Hugh Hefner bought the Playboy Mansion – I present […]
This 4-bedroom vintage home at 3625 N. Springfield in The Villa neighborhood of Irving Park recently came on the market. Many of you have probably seen comments in some threads (especially by Homedelete) referencing “the villa”. It is a landmark historic district established in 1907 just north of Addison and east of Pulaski in Irving Park. […]
We last chattered about this famous 5-bedroom contemporary at 1328 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast in December 2010. See our prior chatter here. Since then, the house has been reduced $351,000 and is now listed $231,000 under the 2006 purchase price. Built in 1938, the house, known as the Florsheim Mansion, was designed […]
This full floor 2-bedroom at 1500 N. Astor Street in the historic Patterson-McCormick Mansion has been on the market since September 2008. In that time, it has been reduced to $2.85 million from $5.5 million. Built in 1893, the unit has 4 wood burning fireplaces, all with their original detailed mantels, and 12-foot ceilings. There […]
This 3-bedroom at 3814 N. Alta Vista Terrace in Lakeview, one of the 40 landmarked rowhouses on Alta Vista Terrace, just came on the market. (I know this street is very popular so I’m posting this without a picture. I’ll try and get one over the weekend.) It is listed $63,000 under the 2004 purchase […]
The historic Henry Rohkam mansion and coach house at 1048 W. Oakdale in Lakeview has come back on the market. Built in 1887 for Henry Rohkam, the Vice President of Northwestern Terra Cotta Company, it is part of the landmarked Terra Cotta Row district which consists of 2 single family homes and a 2 multi-flat buildings as […]
Roma recently pointed out this 5-bedroom vintage greystone at 2823 N. Pine Grove in East Lakeview. The listing says this stretch of Pine Grove is Chicago’s longest greystone block. According to public records, the property was given a Chicago landmark designation in 2007. This greystone was built in 1891 on an extended 22×197 lot. The listing (and the assessor) […]
Thanks to the astute reader who tipped me off to this 2-bedroom in the historic Brewster at 2800 N. Pine Grove in Lakeview which just came back on the market. We have chattered about this unit several times before because earlier this year it was bank owned. See our May 2011 chatter here. It finally […]
We last chattered about this 5-bedroom historic McCormick Rowhouse at 925 W. Fullerton in Lincoln Park in May 2011. See our prior chatter here. At that time, it was listed $183,500 under the 2006 purchase price at $899,000. None of you guessed the ultimately selling price but many of you thought it was a nice […]
We last chattered about this 5-bedroom vintage colonial at 2100 W. Pratt Boulevard in West Ridge in March 2011. See our prior chatter here. At that time, the house was listed for $2.45 million. Most of you were skeptical that it would sell anywhere near that. The more common “guess” was around $1.7 million. The […]