Sale of the Week

3/19/12

Setting it Wright in Glencoe

List Price: $550,000
Sale Price: $500,000
The Property: Of the five rental homes in Glencoe that Frank Lloyd Wright built for his attorney, Sherman Booth, the Charles R. Perry House is the only one with a pagoda flourish on the façade, a design element inspired by the architect’s time in Japan...

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3/12/12

Another North Shore Manse Sells at a Deep Discount

List Price: $3.195 million
Sale Price: $1.75 million
The Property: Secluded at the end of a long wooded lane in Lake Forest, this North Shore chateau had been on the market since May 2008...

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3/5/12

Modernist Home of Architect Who Designed ‘Ferris Bueller’ “Garage”

List Price: $1.1 million
Sale Price: $1.1 million
The Property: Sitting low and austere on a block of frilly Victorians in Evanston, the former home of the modernist architect David Haid is easy to overlook...

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2/27/12

In Winnetka, Everything a House Ott to Be

List Price: $4.995 million
Sale Price: $4.4 million
The Property: A grand manor home on two acres in Winnetka’s Indian Hill Club was sold February 17 for $4.4 million—just 46 percent of what its sellers were asking when they first put it on the market nearly six years ago...

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2/20/12

Wicker Park’s Troubled Twins

List Price (house on the right in photo): $990,000
Sale Price: $959,000
The Property: These mirror-image twins in Wicker Park share more than their contemporary brick-and-glass style...

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2/13/12

After Five Years, Final Condo Sells at River North Building

List Price: $1.199 million
Sale Price: $1.115 million
The Property: On February 9, the last of 20 condos at 30 West Erie was sold, more than five years after construction and sales began...

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2/6/12

A Second Chance for an Uptown Home

List Price: $1.175 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: In 2010, this quirky house built on three lots in Uptown in 1978 was on the verge of getting the interior updating it badly needed...

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1/30/12

On the Waterfront, Four Big Sales

In the past month, four multimillion-dollar homes on the North Shore lakefront have been sold—more than were sold in any single month in 2011. The quartet ranged in price from $2.325 million to $7.5 million, and they all shared views out over Lake Michigan...

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1/23/12

Naperville Remembers the Alamo

List Price: $898,000
Sale Price: $800,000
The Property: The theatrical façade of this 12-room house in the East Highlands neighborhood of Naperville reminds me of the Alamo—or what that Texas landmark might look like if renovated into a single-family home...

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1/16/12

Old Town Triangle House Sold by Driehaus Daughters’ Trusts

List Price: $1.299 million
Sale Price: $1.5 million
The Property: Trusts in the names of the two daughters of the financial whiz and philanthropist Richard Driehaus have sold a storybook-style Italianate Victorian that they had owned since 2001...