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On the Market: A Mediterranean Villa in Highland Park

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List Price: $949,000
The Property: Lake Michigan may not resemble the Mediterranean Sea, but here and there along its shores, Chicagoans have built some Mediterranean-style homes—including charmers like this one, with its abundant gardens and its two-story tower reaching for the sun. Creamy orange-sherbet stucco, a clay tile roof, and round-edged window insets give the house the ambience of a miniature resort—and that’s what it might once have been…

On the Market: Monty’s Jungle Lair—in West Chicago

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List Price: $699,900
The Property: Like a camouflaged animal that hides in plain sight, this wild and irreverent West Chicago residence appears from the street to be nothing more than a big ranch house on a huge lot. But hiding inside that conservative shell is one of the zaniest homes I have ever visited…

Housing Bulletin: The Human Factor

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Prospective buyers who tour a house listed for sale at $899,900 in Naperville’s Ashwood Park subdivision may think the sellers have just stepped out for a moment. After all, there is food in the refrigerator, dishes in the cabinets, and clothes in the closets. The place looks lived in—albeit very neatly lived in…

Sale of the Week: Selling Off the Rite Stuff —Near North Side

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List Price: $3.47 million
Sale Price: $3.128 million
The Property: Built of Lake Superior sandstone, this residence is one of three 19th-century mansions adjoining the Scottish Rite Cathedral on the 900 block of North Dearborn. In 2006, the Rite, a Masonic group, sold the cathedral, the three mansions, and a parking lot to developers for about $60 million…

On the Market: Elegance Times Two at 20 East Cedar

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List Price (Unit 2E): $1,535,000
List Price (Unit 17D): $1,500,000
The Property: Two nicely preserved, well-finished condos are available at 20 East Cedar, a classic Gold Coast mid-rise with a majestic Gothic-style brick and terra cotta exterior. Designed by the architects Fugard & Knapp, the building was completed in 1924. Its lobby sets a clubby tone with a big wood-paneled fireplace wall. “It’s really a great building to…

Sale of the Week: Atop Bucktown's Bloomingdale Greenway

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List Price: $2,575,000
Sale Price: $2,350,000
The Property: When this new Bucktown house at 1801 North Hermitage Avenue was under construction two years ago, the Chicago Reader’s Ben Joravsky denounced it as “a four-story behemoth that dwarfs the surrounding cottages.” But once the house was completed, in August 2008, the logic of its design became clear, at least to me. Here was a house built to take maximum advantage of its…

On the Market: A Contemporary Home Blooms on Magnolia

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List Price: $3,995,000
The Property: Going by his name alone, you might expect the architect Greg Tomb to create deadly spaces, but this speculative home he built on Magnolia Avenue in Lake View is alive with contemporary touches. Tomb started the project by buying two…