Getting Pilastered
Ornamental columns, other details remain after rehab
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On The Market—Hinsdale’s New-Old Stone Mansion
List Price: $4.9 million
The Property: You will be forgiven if, when approaching this new house in Hinsdale, you wonder whether they hauled it over from England in pieces or already assembled. The rough-hewn stone façade, the sheltered entry vestibule with timber beams and…
Housing Bulletin—A Green Demolition, in Northfield
The developer who paid $1.2 million for a Northfield lot where he plans to build six condos could have had the old house there demolished in two days, at a cost of about $15,000. Instead, he’s paying twice that—and the…
Beam Me Up, Scotty
Rustic touches define Pickell’s Bannockburn offering
Abel Bodied
Home of decorated vet may have welcomed FDR and Ike
Sale of the Week—An Evanston House Swap
List Price (Tudor): $2.975 million
Sale Price: $2.975 million
List Price (Brick): $1.295 million
Sale Price: $1.225 million
The Properties: The owners of these two homes swapped houses—even though it wasn’t an even trade. In fact, as you can see, one residence is worth more than twice the other…
Parceled Post
Developer carves ten condos from former mail center
Cooking in the Jazz Age
Roomy, updated kitchens enhance already elegant fixtures at Grand Briar
On The Market—Glenview’s Passage to India
List Price: $4,495,000
The Property: At this 14,000-square-foot house in Glenview, a pair of large, intricately carved front doors made of sagwan wood open into a granite-floored foyer illuminated by a crystal chandelier. While the chandelier is Austrian, the wood and the granite are from…
Housing Bulletin—Victory Gardens’ Real-Estate Reality Check
In Relatively Close, the new James Sherman comedy that opened at Victory Gardens Theater last week, three adult sisters and their families gather at their late parents’ longtime summer home in Union Pier, Michigan. One of the sisters wants to sell the place, and she’s planning to spend the week convincing her sisters it’s a …