Five Architect-Designed Modernist Homes For Sale
Modernist designs in the Chicagoland area, from a home on the Fox River to a residence that uses passive solar energy.
Modernist designs in the Chicagoland area, from a home on the Fox River to a residence that uses passive solar energy.
Take a look at Chicagoland Victorian homes that range in style from Italianate, to Shingle Style, to Queen Anne.
A 1902 ordinance to prevent the dangerous conditions of tenement housing gave Chicago its classic courtyard apartment buildings that boast light, ventilation, and greenspace.
Illinois is second only to Ohio for the most Sears ready-to-assemble kit homes. These customizable homes were affordable to many immigrant and minority workers.
The architect’s tweaks to an Italianate villa in Lake Forest are worth a look.
Choose from an Edward Dart estate, an English manor home by the architect behind the original Playboy mansion, and a sprawling ranch from Frank Lloyd Wright’s son Lloyd Wright.
A Printers Row penthouse with an impressive vaulted skylight was home to an original publisher of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Named for the locally sourced Bedford limestone that makes up their facades, they can be found all over the city, in a variety of forms—from condos in multi-unit buildings to a beautifully preseverved home in a Gold Coast development built by Potter Palmer near his lakefront castle.
Rankings based on 2020 residential sales in the six-county metro area