Crib Chatter

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 […]

This 6-bedroom historic mansion at 817 W. Hutchinson in the Buena Park neighborhood of Uptown just came on the market. If it looks familiar, that’s because we’ve chattered about it several times since 2012. See our October 2012 chatter here. The Claude Seymour House is one of the many historic mansions that line Hutchinson on this […]

This single family home at 2106 N. Hudson in East Lincoln Park recently came on the market (sorry about the bad picture). Some might remember it if looking in Lincoln Park, as it was also listed early in 2017 and sold a month later, in February. Built in 1886, it appears to have some kind of landmark […]

According to Crain’s, one of the city’s mansions just sold to an heir of the Thai Red Bull fortune. They do not, apparently, have ties to Chicago. The house, which sold on Oct 11 for $7.5 million, is on Bellevue in the Gold Coast. Originally listed for $9 million, it was reduced $1 million before selling. […]