Check out the mini-mansions in this tony little enclave – paved red brick and all – built mostly by JDL Development Corporation on former industrial land in Roscoe Village over the last couple of years.
This home (left) is topped by a mansard roof that would do Lucien Lagrange proud, and we hear it has a little basketball court in the basement, which has an 18-foot-high ceiling. The development is in a cul-de-sac just off Hermitage Avenue, near the Metra tracks. Click “More” for more images; the final image is a development by luxury builder Stuart Rose Homes on George Street.
My god, these houses are HUGE. Although I’ll admit the detail is pretty good for 2006.
I hate to say it, but what’s the point of a house this big without a good two acres or as the grounds? Seriously, if I had $4.2M (or however much this is) to spend and wanted this much space, I’d go up to a northshore community and by the same house with 1.5 acres around it.
I agree Joe. It seems that with a lot of these new places, it’s all about having the biggest house, that takes up the whole block. Some of them move to Winnetka when the kids get a little older.
Shame on all of you! You want people with lots of money to leave the city? Is that what cities are about? Shall we split the cost of running chicago between the middle class and the poor? God bless them if they want to spend that much money on a house, at least they are in the city and not contributing to sprawl or clogging up the roadways. Their kids have a lot better chance growing up taking transit or experiencing diversty than a Winnetka resident.
I don’t “want” residents of these sorts of houses to do anything. If it was ME, and I had the money to spend on a house this big in a fancy north side neighborhood, I’d rather spin the same money in the suburbs and have an acre or three. I don’t see the point in buying (or building, for that matter) a 6000 square foot house on 3000 square feet of land.
(And FYI, I guarantee that the residents of these houses are, in fact, clogging up the roadways–it’s just that they are clogging up Halstead or Clark on their way to work, and not the Kennedy or the Eisenhower.)
I don’t think there’s a single north shore community where you’re going to get acreage for your stinking $4.2 million. Lake Forest is a maybe, but that would be west Lake Forest.
There is a 1.5 acre teardown site in Winnetka for $7.3 million. Double that and you’re in your new house.
Who’s donating our parks, museums and hospital wings? The rich that this city needs.
Well Joe, if that is how you feel I hope you win the lottery and move out. What kind of snob doesn’t “want” people to “do anything”? A city needs everyone, not just the poor, or rich, everyone. That is what makes urban living unique from the burbs.
I know plenty of people in homes like this and they are active members of the community and they do take the train downtown for work and they are supporting the arts and culture of the city.