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3/22/12

Bucktown’s Sunlight Store

List Price: $935,000
The Property: On a quintessential Bucktown corner, several onetime storefronts have been converted into residences over the years. Among them is a one-story brick building that may have once been a furniture store and warehouse...

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3/15/12

A Touch of Europe in South Barrington

List Price: $5.5 million
The Property: The homebuilder Joe Elias and his company, Vintage Elegant Family Estates, pride themselves on bringing an old-world timelessness to their projects. At Hidden Lakes, a gated subdivision of very large homes in South Barrington, Elias took it up several notches, layering on the European-inspired details when creating this 13,000-square-foot home for his family...

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3/8/12

Light-Filled Townhouse in the Clybourn Corridor

List Price: $1.295 million
The Property: Late in the 1980s, as the Clybourn Corridor was making its transformation from industrial area to vibrant urban neighborhood, a long block of townhouses was built on Maud Avenue, which parallels Clybourn Avenue...

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3/1/12

A Streeterville Condo Inside the Former American Furniture Mart

List Price: $1.4 million
The Property: Lakeshore Place, once known as the American Furniture Mart, is a 1920s behemoth on the lakefront that’s heavy and dark. On its 11th floor is a condo that is the exact opposite: airy and light...

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2/23/12

In Hyde Park, a Cinematic Home Worthy of an Oscar

List Price: $1.149 million The Property: Facing Promontory Point across Lake Shore Drive stands an 11-story co-op building with a façade so lovely it can only be called “cinematic.” That’s fitting, since the architects of what was originally called the Jackson Shores Apartments were Rapp and Rapp, the renowned designers of grand movie palaces, including the Chicago Theatre and Aurora’s Paramount Theatre...

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2/16/12

In Lake Forest, an Old Estate Garage Gets a Lift

List Price: $2.8 million
The Property: In the late 1930s, the architect David Adler designed a pair of servants’ cottages that flanked the back entrance to the Lake Forest estate of Lola Armour. He used nearly as much detail on the cottages as he had on the huge main house, nearly a quarter of a mile away...

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2/9/12

Two Competing Views of Belmont Harbor

List Price (8th floor): $375,000
List Price (7th floor): $300,000
The Properties: Even among the many stately dowagers that surround it, 3314 North Lake Shore Drive stands out with its Beaux Arts façade, which features paired columns of bay windows that capture views out over Belmont Harbor...

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2/2/12

A Pre-Fire Farmhouse in Lincoln Park

List Price: $1,574,900
The Property: Just off the thriving Armitage Avenue shopping strip, on a Lincoln Park street filled with homes from different eras, stands a house that watched them all arrive. Built in 1861 as the farmhouse for a truck farm that delivered its produce into Chicago, the house still has several of its original elements...

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1/26/12

The Queen of Terra Cotta Row

List Price: $2.495 million
The Property: During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company made Chicago the capital of architectural ornamentation. The company’s officers weren’t shy about using their products on their homes on Terra Cotta Row, a cluster of four homes on the 1000 block of West Oakdale in Lake View...

Posted at 10:28 a.m. in On the Market | Permalink | Comments (2)

1/19/12

A Passage to India—via Lake Forest

List Price: $6.495 million
The Property: On a bitterly cold day, a welcoming home can transport visitors to a better place. At this Lake Forest estate, that place is an idealized version of India in the 1890s. The home’s entire central hallway, about 25 feet long, is papered with a Zuber wallpaper panorama called Hindustan that was installed when the home was owned by the family of William A. P. Pullman, from 1926 to 1992...

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	3/22/12 Bucktown’s Sunlight Store List Price: $935,000 The Property: On a quintessential Bucktown corner, several onetime storefronts have been converted into residences over the years. Among them is a one-story brick building that may have once been a furniture store and warehouse... Posted at 10:15 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (1)
	3/15/12 A Touch of Europe in South Barrington List Price: $5.5 million The Property: The homebuilder Joe Elias and his company, Vintage Elegant Family Estates, pride themselves on bringing an old-world timelessness to their projects. At Hidden Lakes, a gated subdivision of very large homes in South Barrington, Elias took it up several notches, layering on the European-inspired details when creating this 13,000-square-foot home for his family... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)
	3/8/12 Light-Filled Townhouse in the Clybourn Corridor List Price: $1.295 million The Property: Late in the 1980s, as the Clybourn Corridor was making its transformation from industrial area to vibrant urban neighborhood, a long block of townhouses was built on Maud Avenue, which parallels Clybourn Avenue... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (1)
	3/1/12 A Streeterville Condo Inside the Former American Furniture Mart List Price: $1.4 million The Property: Lakeshore Place, once known as the American Furniture Mart, is a 1920s behemoth on the lakefront that’s heavy and dark. On its 11th floor is a condo that is the exact opposite: airy and light... Posted at 10:14 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (2)
	2/23/12 In Hyde Park, a Cinematic Home Worthy of an Oscar List Price: $1.149 million The Property: Facing Promontory Point across Lake Shore Drive stands an 11-story co-op building with a façade so lovely it can only be called “cinematic.” That’s fitting, since the architects of what was originally called the Jackson Shores Apartments were Rapp and Rapp, the renowned designers of grand movie palaces, including the Chicago Theatre and Aurora’s Paramount Theatre... Posted at 10:09 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)
	2/16/12 In Lake Forest, an Old Estate Garage Gets a Lift List Price: $2.8 million The Property: In the late 1930s, the architect David Adler designed a pair of servants’ cottages that flanked the back entrance to the Lake Forest estate of Lola Armour. He used nearly as much detail on the cottages as he had on the huge main house, nearly a quarter of a mile away... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)
	2/9/12 Two Competing Views of Belmont Harbor List Price (8th floor): $375,000 List Price (7th floor): $300,000 The Properties: Even among the many stately dowagers that surround it, 3314 North Lake Shore Drive stands out with its Beaux Arts façade, which features paired columns of bay windows that capture views out over Belmont Harbor... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)
	2/2/12 A Pre-Fire Farmhouse in Lincoln Park List Price: $1,574,900 The Property: Just off the thriving Armitage Avenue shopping strip, on a Lincoln Park street filled with homes from different eras, stands a house that watched them all arrive. Built in 1861 as the farmhouse for a truck farm that delivered its produce into Chicago, the house still has several of its original elements... Posted at 10:00 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (1)
	1/26/12 The Queen of Terra Cotta Row List Price: $2.495 million The Property: During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company made Chicago the capital of architectural ornamentation. The company’s officers weren’t shy about using their products on their homes on Terra Cotta Row, a cluster of four homes on the 1000 block of West Oakdale in Lake View... Posted at 10:28 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (2)
	1/19/12 A Passage to India—via Lake Forest List Price: $6.495 million The Property: On a bitterly cold day, a welcoming home can transport visitors to a better place. At this Lake Forest estate, that place is an idealized version of India in the 1890s. The home’s entire central hallway, about 25 feet long, is papered with a Zuber wallpaper panorama called Hindustan that was installed when the home was owned by the family of William A. P. Pullman, from 1926 to 1992... Posted at 10:03 a.m. in On the Market \| Permalink \| Comments (0)

3/22/12

Bucktown’s Sunlight Store

3/15/12

A Touch of Europe in South Barrington

3/8/12

Light-Filled Townhouse in the Clybourn Corridor

3/1/12

A Streeterville Condo Inside the Former American Furniture Mart

2/23/12

In Hyde Park, a Cinematic Home Worthy of an Oscar

2/16/12

In Lake Forest, an Old Estate Garage Gets a Lift

2/9/12

Two Competing Views of Belmont Harbor

2/2/12

A Pre-Fire Farmhouse in Lincoln Park

1/26/12

The Queen of Terra Cotta Row

1/19/12

A Passage to India—via Lake Forest

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