Crib Chatter

This 4-bedroom Greystone row house at 639 W. Surf in East Lakeview came on the market in May 2018. Built in 1886, it’s an attached brick and stone row house on a 19 x 116 x 39 x 82 lot which still has some of its vintage features such as 10 foot first floor ceilings […]

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 6 bedroom vintage row house at 2704 N. Lakeview in East Lincoln Park came on the market in March 2018. Built in 1914, it is one of 4 row homes on Lincoln Park designed by Dangler & Adler. It’s 3-stories with a 4th floor set back that, according to an older listing, used to […]

This 3-bedroom row house at 3808 N. Alta Vista Terrace in Lakeview came on the market in June 2017. Alta Vista Terrace is a Chicago Landmark District. These 40 row homes were built from 1900 to 1904 and were built to look like London row homes. From the Chicago Landmark website: This street represents one […]

This 6-bedroom vintage row house at 1246 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in April 2016. Built in 1875, it still has some of its vintage features intact including original moldings and built-ins along with 12 foot ceilings. It also has 4 fireplaces. But this row house also has modern […]

This 2-bedroom vintage row house at 42 E Schiller in the Gold Coast came on the market in October 2016. It is bank owned. Built in 1885, the listing says it’s a “Potter Palmer” row house. Potter Palmer was one of Chicago’s most prominent businessmen. He was involved in the creation of Marshall Fields and […]

This 3-bedroom vintage row house at 1845 N. Halsted in Lincoln Park came on the market in September 2016. It’s actually the building behind this main building- where the realtor sign is in the picture. If it looks familiar that’s because we chattered about it when it was last on the market in February 2013. […]

This 3-bedroom Victorian rowhouse at 1959 W. Schiller in Wicker Park came on the market in July 2014. Built in 1879 on an extra long 25×162 lot, it sits directly across the street from Wicker Park. The listing calls it a single family home- but I don’t see any separation with the home next to it […]

This 3-bedroom vintage townhouse at 621 W. Oakdale in East Lakeview just came on the market. It’s rare to find a 3-bedroom townhouse in this location because of the age of the properties in East Lakeview. This townhouse has some of its vintage features intact including crown molding, two fireplaces, French doors, and a secret […]

We last chattered about this 2-bedroom vintage rowhouse at 2343 W. Altgeld in Logan Square in April 2010. See our prior chatter here. Most of the chatter was on the rowhouse’s location near the Kennedy Expressway. The rowhouse is on a smaller than normal Chicago lot of 18×100. If you recall, it has 2-bedrooms on the […]