This 4-bedroom Victorian at 4620 N. Winchester in the Ravenswood/Lincoln Square neighborhood recently came on the market. Built in 1891 on a 25×152 lot, it has a front yard and porch, with a swing. The house has a double parlor and a formal dining room alongside some period details like stained glass windows. The kitchen […]
We’ve been chattering about the recent spate of modern single family homes being built, especially in the West Town neighborhood, but this 5-bedroom new construction single family home at 1529 W. Wolfram is in Lakeview. The house is 5000 square feet on a standard Chicago lot of 25×125. It has custom millwork and a coffered ceiling […]
This 3-bedroom single family home at 1911 W. Berenice in North Center recently came on the market. It might not attract any notice in other neighborhoods but at $545,000 it is a rare single family home listed under $550,000 in the Bell school district. Built in 1896 on a standard Chicago lot of 25×125, it […]
This 4-bedroom Victorian at 4112 N. St. Louis in the Irving Park neighborhood has been on the market since August 2011. It was previously a 3-bedroom house that was bank owned and sold in January 2011 for just $98,000. You can see a few pictures from the prior bank owned listing here. Originally built in 1896, it has […]
We’ve chattered about this 4-bedroom Queen Anne at 6239 N. Lundy in the Old Edgebrook neighborhood of Forest Glen several times in the 21 months it has been on the market. See our July 2011 chatter here. Since our last chatter in July 2011, it has again been reduced, this time another $60,000, to $799,000. Many of […]
We last chattered about this 5-bedroom rehab mansion at 2216 W. Grace in North Center in February 2011. See our prior chatter here. This house was the subject of much chatter due to its extreme size for the neighborhood (at 8,000 square feet) and that it used to be a 6-flat apartment building. Back then it was […]
The Theurrer-Wrigley House at 2466 N. Lakeview in Lincoln Park just came on the market. Located directly on Lincoln Park on the corner of Lakeview and Arlington, the mansion was built in 1894 for brewery baron Joseph Theurer in the Italian Renaissance style. According to Wikipedia, he sold it to the Wrigley family in 1911 but they largely […]
We last chattered about this 5-bedroom new construction single family home at 1542 W. Nelson in West Lakeview in August 2011. See our prior chatter here. At that time, the house had been reduced from $2.5 million to $1.999 million. Many of you liked the house except for the fact that it was on an […]
We have chattered about this 3-bedroom contemporary single family home at 1509 N. Paulina in Wicker Park several times before. See our August 2011 chatter here. If you recall, this was the house where the agent was running a contest to guess the price. Many of you submitted your “guesses” right here on Crib Chatter but […]
We last chattered about this 3-bedroom Cape Cod at 7640 W. Rascher in the Oriole Park neighborhood of Norwood Park in August 2011. See our prior chatter here. Many of you just didn’t know anything about this neighborhood or greatly underestimated what houses sell for in a neighborhood with one of the best public schools […]