Tag: Architecture
Griffin’s Emery House in Elmhurst, still for sale
It was late January when I toured The Emery House in Elmhurst with Tom Makinney of Coldwell Banker's Gracik Makinney Group, one of our sponsors. T [...]
235 Van Buren was last quarter’s best-seller
According to Chicago Real Estate Daily:
Developers closed 159 condo sales downtown in the third quarter, up slightly from 151 sales in the sec [...]
Innovative design in a Southport Corridor home
The bold façade of the single-family home at 3652 N Bosworth Ave in the Southport Corridor announces that something special lies within.
This i [...]
Aqua resale tries for 46% price increase after a year
Unit 6901 at Aqua, 225 N Columbus Dr, was purchased for $905,000 in May of last year. The purchase price of the 1,756 square foot, 3-bedroom, 2 ½ [...]
Points of view on Prentice Hospital
We don’t ordinarily write about institutional or commercial properties. We do, as a matter of course, try to bring to your attention videos that f [...]
Mid-century modernism at its best in Lake View
In the early 1950s when 29 year old Chicago architect Milton Schwartz designed the structure that sits at 320 W Oakdale in Lake View, little did h [...]
Ralph Johnson’s recent works and Julius Shulman’s photography
Amazon informs us that Ralph Johnson of Perkins + Will: Recent Works is out of print. Don't despair. The publisher has posted a page-turning look [...]
Mondial apartments sell at a large profit
Mondial, in River West, is an apartment project that we've followed in dozens of posts through many ups and downs over more than seven years. Our [...]
An Edward Dart masterpiece on a Glencoe acre
Architect Edward Dart completed nearly 100 projects before his premature death at 53, among them a landmark home at 350 Sunrise Circle in Glencoe. [...]
