Crib Chatter

This 4-bedroom vintage row house at 558 W. Fullerton Parkway in Lincoln Park came on the market in July 2024. Built in 1889 on a 20×111 lot, this brick row house is in the Fullerton Parkway historic district. The listing says it was “completely rebuilt and finished in 2024” with meticulous design, exquisite finishes and […]

This 4-bedroom vintage row house at 474 W. Deming in East Lincoln Park came on the market in July 2024. If this row house looks familiar, that’s because we’ve chattered about it twice before, when it was on the market in 2012 and, the last sale, in 2019. The row house had difficulty selling in […]

This 6-bedroom vintage row house at 31 E. Scott in the Gold Coast came on the market in June 2024. It was built in 1889 and does not have parking. From Crain’s: Built around 1889, the house was purchased in 1922 by Joseph and Grace Allworthy. Joseph Allworthy painted portraits of, among others, Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, […]

This 2-bedroom vintage row home at 1873 N. Leavitt in Bucktown came on the market in April 2024. I don’t have a picture of this group of row homes but I wanted to talk about this one nevertheless. Built in 1888 on a 16×124 lot, it has a 1.5 car garage and yard. This is […]

This 3-bedroom vintage row house at 554 W. Fullerton Parkway in Lincoln Park came on the market in July 2023. Built in 1886, the row house is on a 20 x 101 sized lot. It has a parking pad behind the row house with one parking space. It’s not gated. If it looks familiar, that’s […]

This 3-bedroom Crilly Court row house at 1712 N. Crilly in Old Town came on the market in June 2023. Built in 1886, this is a brick and limestone Queen Anne style row house in the Crilly Court complex that was developed by Daniel Crilly. There is no parking with any of the row houses […]

This 4-bedroom Italianate row house at 1928 N. Lincoln in East Lincoln Park came on the market in November 2022. Built in 1875, the listing says it was built by Andrew McNally with large blocks of Joliet limestone. The prior listing from last year says that they used limestone because of the Great Chicago Fire […]

This corner 4-bedroom row house at 358 W. Wisconsin in Old Town came on the market in September 2022. Built in 1890, the rowhouse is on a 20×80 lot and has a 2-car garage. For those old-timers on this site who have a keen eye, we have chattered about this row house before, 11 years […]

This 3-bedroom row house at 615 W. Oakdale in East Lakeview came on the market in May 2022. Built in 1886-1890 (unclear from the listing), this is one of 6 row houses pictured above. This particular one, is just to the left of those in the picture above, so it’s not pictured. It is fee […]

This vintage row house at 566 W. Arlington in East Lincoln Park came on the market in March 2022. Built in 1895, the listing says it was designed by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb and is the middle of the “Three Sisters” row homes on the street. It is on a 16.58 x 90 lot. […]