Crib Chatter

This 5-bedroom vintage single family home at 511 W. Armitage in Lincoln Park came on the market in June 2022. Built in 1890, this Victorian house is on a shorter than standard Chicago lot of 25×100 but still has a 2-car garage. The listing says this house has been “renovated.” It still has vintage features […]

This 6-bedroom vintage single family home at 416 W. Webster in East Lincoln Park came on the market in October 2021. Built in 1890 on a 25×127 lot, it has a 3-car garage. The house has been “extensively renovated” and no longer has any of its original vintage features although it does have high ceilings […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 1566 N. Hoyne in Wicker Park came on the market in April 2022. If it looks familiar, that’s because we last chattered about it in 2011, when it was priced under the 2007 purchase price and we discussed whether or not it was a deal. Many of you disliked […]

This 4-bedroom Italianate cottage at 2121 N. Hudson in East Lincoln Park came on the market in March 2022. Built in 1869 by WW Boyington, who was the architect of the Water Tower, according to the listing, it is one of only 3 north side houses that survived the Chicago Fire. Built on a larger […]

This 4-bedroom Prairie-style single family home at 651 W. Hutchinson in the Buena Park neighborhood of Uptown came on the market in February 2022. Built in 1914, it’s on a larger than standard Chicago lot measuring 50×108 and has a 1.5 car attached garage (per the 2019 listing) and a gated backyard. It is located […]

This 6-bedroom greystone at 1306 N. Ritchie in the Gold Coast came on the market in July 2021. Built in 1900, the listing calls it a Potter Palmer greystone. It’s on an 18×72 lot and does not have a garage. If it looks familiar, that’s because we last chattered about it in February 2018 when […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 1442 W. Berteau in Graceland West came on the market in April 2021. Built in 2010, it has a limestone facade. The house is on a 42 foot lot and there is an extra side lot which is another 40 feet, putting the lot at 82×125. It has a […]

This vintage 4-bedroom single family home at 225 W. Menomonee in the Old Town Triangle came on the market in July 2021. I don’t know when this home was built as the listing is calling it “new construction” in 2021 but the home is landmarked. It’s on a 25 x 104 lot. The listing says […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 1936 N. Sedgwick in Lincoln Park came on the market in September 2021. Built in 1880, the main house and garage, which has a studio coach house apartment on the second level, are all brick. It’s built on a standard Chicago lot measuring 24 x 124. The listing says […]

This 5-bedroom Mediterranean villa single family home at 5652 N. Virginia in Peterson Woods just came on the market. Built in 1928 on a larger than average corner lot measuring 50 x 119.5, it over looks the North brand of the Chicago River and Legion Park. It has an attached 2 car garage. It’s famous […]