This 3-bedroom at the Windsor Beach Apartments at 7321 S. South Shore in South Shore has been on and off the market since 2007. If you were one of the five people reading this site when it first launched in 2007, you would remember this building and unit as we chattered about it in October 2007. See […]
This 3-bedroom in the Park Castle Condominiums at 2436 W. Greenleaf in the Indian Boundary Park neighborhood of Rogers Park came on the market in May 2016. Park Castle Condominiums are on the architectural tours. It has 68 units. From Open House Chicago: Architect Jens J. Jensen—not to be confused with landscape architect Jens Jensen—designed this 1925 […]
This 2-bedroom unit in the Edgewater Beach Co-op Apartments at 5555 N. Sheridan in Edgewater came on the market in February 2016. The Edgewater Beach Co-op was built in 1928 as a companion property to the older Edgewater Beach Hotel which was a resort with a Mediterranean flair on the Lake. Designed by Benjamin Marshall […]
This house at 1810 N. Orleans in Old Town’s historic landmark district came on the market in August 2016. It’s being marketed as a chance to build new. From the listing: One of the Last Opportunities to build your DREAM HOME in Old Town!!! The listing says the white and green house was built in 1886. […]
This 4-bedroom half-floor unit in the Playboy Mansion at 1340 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in early November 2015. It was publicized all over the media because units rarely come on the market in this famed mansion. According to Wikipedia, the 70-room French brick and limestone mansion was built in […]
This 3-bedroom triplex in the Seminary Flatirons building at 1920 N. Seminary in Lincoln Park just came on the market. The Seminary Flatirons building is an 8-unit building constructed in 1883. The listings for this unit from 2009 and 2010 said the building was on the National Register of Historic Places (and there is also […]
This 3-bedroom Victorian, complete with a turret, at 2138 W. Caton in Bucktown came on the market in February 2016. Built in 1891, on an extra wide 50×100 lot, it is a vintage lover’s dream with nearly all of its vintage features preserved including: leaded glass windows plaster walls medallions cove moldings a grand carved […]
This studio in the historic Brewster building at 2800 N. Pine Grove in East Lakeview just came on the market. The Brewster was built in 1893 as a luxury apartment building and it has internal iron staircases, cat walks and a huge skylight. Not only did Charlie Chaplin live in one of the penthouses in 1915-1916, […]