Crib Chatter

This historic 4-bedroom brick single family home at 2309 S. 12th in Soulard in St. Louis came on the market in April 2018. Built in 1890, it is a rare home that is on a double lot measuring 50×142 in the historic Soulard neighborhood which has small, irregular lots laid out by the French. The […]

This 3-bedroom row house at 3810 N. Alta Vista Terrace in Lakeview came on the market in October 2017. It’s also been for rent off and on since. You may recall that Alta Vista Terrace is a Chicago Landmark District. These 40 row homes were built from 1900 to 1904 and were built to look […]

This 5-bedroom McCormick Seminary row house at 852 W. Chalmers in Lincoln Park first came on the market in July 2017 but was recently re-listed again. Built between 1884 and 1889, these row houses make up the McCormick Row House District. They are found on both Fullerton and Belden as well as Chalmers Place, which […]

This 1-bedroom in the Theophil Studios at 143 W. Burton Place in Old Town recently came on the market. The Theophil Studios is a 6-unit building that was constructed in 1892. From the Chicago Landmark Commission Report on West Burton Place: Original construction: 1892; artist renovation: 1940 The Theophil Studios complex is a three-story, six-unit […]

The Abbott Estate at 4605 N. Hermitage in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Uptown came on the market in February 2016. If it looks familiar, it’s because we chattered about it in 2010 after it had been on the market during the Great Recession years in 2009 and 2010. You can see our chatter here (where […]

This 4-bedroom vintage mansion at 2142 W Caton in Bucktown came on the market in June 2018. Built in 1891, it’s on a larger than standard Chicago lot but there isn’t a lot size in the listing. The listing says it was built in the “Romanesque” style. It has many of its vintage features intact […]

This 5-bedroom historic mansion at 1407 N. Hoyne in Wicker Park just came on the market. Anyone who has lived, walked, jogged, biked or driven through the Wicker Park neighborhood knows this house. Built in 1885, it’s on a massive 98×110 city lot. Crain’s has more: The red brick Second Empire-style mansion, on nearly half […]

This 2-bedroom row house at 1818 N. Lincoln in East Lincoln Park recently came on the market. The listing says it was built in 1876 but the plaque on the side of this group of row houses says they were built in 1879 and have historic protection. It’s a fee simple brick row house with […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 2106 N. Hudson in East Lincoln Park was listed in October 2017 (once again, sorry for the awful picture). If you recall, we chattered about this house in a historic district in November 2017. Back then, it had sold quickly in a sale from the original family for $860,000 […]

This duplex 2-bedroom in the Fulton House at 345 N. Canal on the Near West Side, and on the Chicago River, came on the market in October 2017. Fulton House was built in 1903 as an old cold storage warehouse. It became apartments in the 1970s and was converted into condos in the 1990s. However, it’s […]