Tag: landmark
Video – A rare Frank Lloyd Wright rowhouse in The Gap
The Roloson Houses in the 3200 block of South Calumet are a Chicago Landmark, in part because they're the only rowhouses designed by Frank Lloyd W [...]
Tour new luxury lofts in a great South Loop location
Aviation Lofts, 1340 S Michigan, is a landmark in the South Loop. The building's distinctive architecture and history have earned it a slot on the [...]
A spacious light-filled landmark on Astor Street
The Edwin J Gardiner house, 1345 N Astor St, was built in 1887 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The 14-room, 5-bedroo [...]
A wonderful Bucktown home that’s large yet cozy
When you arrive at 1614 N Leavitt in Bucktown you'll feel like you're at a home built in the late 1800s. In fact, the home is less than 10 years o [...]
The circus-themed grand opening at Hyde Park’s Shoreland Apartments
The Shoreland, once one of Chicago's grandest hotels, has been reincarnated as a luxury apartment building.
The Shoreland's soaring Art Deco lo [...]
Hyde Park’s Del Prado apartments, where location meets luxury
The former Del Prado hotel, an ornately-decorated landmark at the gateway between Hyde Park and the lakefront, has been renovated into luxury apar [...]
Tour a Highland Park landmark, the Ben Rose house and pavilion
The Ben Rose house and pavilion has been said to be the most important modernist home in Chicagoland.
It was designed by A. James Speyer, a st [...]
A $2.6M price hike on the Dewes Mansion
The list price on the Francis J. Dewes Mansion, one of Chicago's most lavishly detailed landmark homes, was recently raised from $9.9 million to $ [...]
The whimsical Sky Club at Randolph Tower City Apartments
Randolph Tower, 188 W Randolph, represents the conversion of the landmark 45-story Steuben Club, built in 1929, into 313 residential apartments wi [...]
The view from the Belden-Stratford’s sundeck
We recently wrote about the wave of existing buildings playing catch-up to the amenities and in-unit creature comforts offered by Chicago's new do [...]
Quote of the day – stupefied 1880s NIMBYs
Henry Hobson Richardson's Glessner House, now a museum and local and national landmark, was not well-received by its neighbors at the time it was [...]
At least I shall have beautiful parks to walk through
What's now known as the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool in Lincoln Park has been called "the quintessential oasis." It's one of the few examples of lan [...]
Landmark Lincoln Park mansions not budging on price
When I visited the Theurer-Wrigley House last August it hadn't yet been listed in the MLS. The landmark home at 2466 N Lakeview, which is more com [...]
Tour a full-floor home in the Patterson McCormick Mansion
The historic Patterson McCormick Mansion, built in 1893, was designed by Stanford White and expanded in 1927 by David Adler. Warm Roman brick and [...]
A rehabbed single-family on Alta Vista Terrace for $850K
A developer has acquired the home at 3818 N Alta Vista Terrace – the "street of forty doors" – and drawn up plans to expand and renovate it.
Th [...]
Affordable artist live / work lofts in Logan Square
The landmark Morris Sachs building at 2800 N Milwaukee Ave in Logan Square has been transformed into Hairpin Lofts, a community resource where Log [...]