Crib Chatter

This 6-bedroom Beaux-Art style mansion at 1521 N. State Parkway came on the market in August 2018. Built in 1894 by architect George Maher, it is on a larger than standard Chicago lot measuring 28.5 x 130 lot. It has a one-car garage plus a parking pad for a second car. The listing says it […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 5306 N. Normandy in Norwood Park came on the market in September 2021. I don’t have a picture of it, but given how quickly single family homes have been selling, I still wanted to crib about it. Built in 1926, I can’t tell what the housing style is supposed […]

This 6-bedroom vintage house at 830 W. Wolfram in Lakeview came on the market in July 2021. Built in 1885, it’s on an extra wide 43×125 lot and has an extra large 2.5 garage. This house has some of its vintage features but has also been expanded and renovated. It has 3 fireplaces, crown moldings, […]

This 4-bedroom Victorian single family home at 3526 N. Marshfield in Lakeview came on the market in May 2020. If it looks familiar, that’s because we have chattered about it several times over the last decade: in both 2013 and 2016, which was the last time it was on the market. See our 2016 chatter here. We also […]

This 4-bedroom Italianate house at 11118 S. Artesian in Morgan Park came on the market in July 2021. (sorry- I don’t have a picture, unfortunately.) Built in 1857 as a farmhouse, the Italianate two story front part of the house was added in the 1870s. Built by Charles Iglehart, it was in an area originally […]

This 7-bedroom single family home at 4130 N. Greenview in the Graceland West neighborhood of Lakeview came on the market in February 2021. Built in 2016, the listing says it’s on 5 lots measuring 100 x 161 and took 5 years to acquire the land. The 11,000 square foot home sits on one 50 x […]

This 3-bedroom worker’s cottage at 2110 N. Hoyne in Bucktown just came on the market. If it looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it all the way back in 2009. Yes, Homedelete was complaining about the sales price, even in 2009. See our chatter here. Built in 1891, this worker’s cottage is all brick […]

This 4-bedroom red brick Queen Anne at 1505 W. Jackson in the Jackson Boulevard historic district in the Near West Side came on the market in March 2021. Built in 1883, it’s on a larger than standard Chicago lot measuring 25 x 188. It has a 2-car garage. This home has many of its original […]

This 7-bedroom single family home at 587 W. Hawthorne Place in East Lakeview came on the market in June 2020. Built in 1906, it’s on an oversized 45 x 111 lot with a gated driveway on the side of the house that the listing says can fit 3 cars. There’s no garage. It has the […]

This 6-bedroom single family home at 2902 N. Burling in Lakeview came on the market in August 2020. Built in 2019, this modern, contemporary home is on a double lot measuring 52×140. The house has a brick, stucco, stone and limestone exterior and a professionally landscaped lot including mature trees. It has heated double connected […]