List Price: $2.495 million Sale Price: $2.175 million The Property: Frank Lloyd Wright’s only project in Lake Forest, this 12-room house, built at the edge of a ravine in the early 1950s, demonstrates the architect’s ability to shape people’s perceptions of the spaces that surround them. Visitors to the house enter along a narrow, low-ceilinged … Read more
Call them the best of the 21st century if you’d like. These innovative new buildings illustrate Chicago’s enduring power to attract great design.
List Price: $1.199 million
The Property: The elaborately carved façade of this 104-year-old, 8,500-square-foot Drexel Boulevard graystone only hints at the impressive workmanship inside—and provides evens less information about the amount of work that will be required to update some parts of the house. First, a look at the place’s strong points, beginning in the entry hall, which, with its walnut wainscoting, beams, newel posts, and benches, resembles a chapel. The living and dining rooms are similarly impressive, while the library is a jaw-dropping composition of…
In an era of proliferating McMansions, it’s nice to see the real thing grab the attention of homebuyers. In Evanston, two developers have reclaimed a Georgian mansion perched on a ridgetop, transforming it from a rundown school-district outpost into four condominiums. “This really was the grandest house in Evanston,” says Mike Niazmand, a longtime Evanston … Read more
Wary of suburban sprawl, a Kendall County clan designs an innovative housing development to replace the farm it has nurtured for generations.
List Price: $1,755,000 Sale Price: $1,755,341 The Property: Thanks to its extra-wide lot—31 feet, compared to the city norm of 25—the second floor of this brick and limestone house accommodates four bedrooms, not just three. “People find it advantageous to have all the family bedrooms on the one floor,” says John McNaughton, the real-estate agent … Read more
Developers add residences atop onetime retail shops
Two new buildings provide a West Side neighborhood with a dramatic new portal
Curtain goes up on condos in Lyric Opera’s former warehouse
List Price: $3,977,000 The Property: Filling its slender lot nearly to the perimeter leaves this new Lincoln Park mansion with only a few slivers of open ground. No problem: there is still a yard—only it’s upstairs and spread across several levels. Two of the levels are directly off the family room, right where you might … Read more
