Five Townhouses for Sale in Chicago
A look at five architecturally or historically significant townhomes for sale in the city.
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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.
Five Victorian Homes For Sale
Take a look at Chicagoland Victorian homes that range in style from Italianate, to Shingle Style, to Queen Anne.
Five Sears Kit Homes For Sale
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.
Five Architect-Designed Homes For Sale in Lake County
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.
Five Greystones For Sale in Chicago
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.
Five Architecturally Significant Homes in Oak Park and River Forest
You can own a piece of the suburbs’ rich history, like one of “tomorrow’s homes,” a beautifully preserved Victorian, or a “bootleg” Prairie Style house that’s (probably) by Frank Lloyd Wright’s draftsman.
Five Peaceful Chicagoland Homes
Get an indoor pool in a swinging Brutalist house, a cabin with a horse barn by a forest preserve for under $500,000, or a midcentury modern woodland estate.
Five Big, Spectacular Homes in the Chicago Suburbs
Take the A-frame… or the pomo house with a midcentury pedigree, or the Lake Bluff manse on an actual lake bluff and views to match.
Five North Shore Midcentury Homes
From a modestly sized and priced no-HOA townhome to a supersized split-level designed by “the Blonde Builder of the Suburbs,” the simple style offers a lot of options.