Tag: Chicago history
Yo’s Believe It or Not: The Abbott House fence
Last month Curbed reported that the landmark Abbott House at 4605 N Hermitage Ave in Uptown had closed for $1.6 million. We recently picked up a b [...]
The history of Hollywood Park’s two-flats
Frances Archer's blog continues to be a wonderful source of history and insight into Hollywood Park and adjacent neighborhoods on the Northwest Si [...]
Play ball!
If you listened to sports radio this morning, you know the Cubby Bear was packed with drunks by 8 a.m. Baseball has returned to Wrigleyville!
Y [...]
Two histories of Albany Park
By sheer coincidence I've received links to two wildly different depictions of old-school Albany Park in less than 12 hours. Between them, you can [...]
Fifty years of Marina City
This is the 50th anniversary of the official, shiny-shovel groundbreaking ceremony for Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg's iconic city-within-a-city [...]
Dewes Mansion listed for $9.9 million
The owner of the 9,768-square-foot Francis J. Dewes mansion at 503 W Wrightwood Ave in Lincoln Park has listed the home for $9.9 million, according to [...]
Renovated Astor Street District row house on the market (again)
This Potter Palmer-built row house at 1302 N Ritchie Ct in the Gold Coast's Astor Street District is no stranger to the modern market. According to re [...]
Noble Street Lofts, then and now
"The 'Clybourn Corridor' of the 1990s will be Grand Avenue."
- Developer Jack Berger, speaking to Charles Hayes of the Chicago Tribune in a Sept. 10 [...]
Pre-fire vintage in Lincoln Park for $1.74M
Is this the oldest Chicago home currently on the market? It's a Victorian single-family at 2029 N Seminary Ave that dates back to 1861, just 24 years [...]
Lill & Esther & Bill & Walter: Memories of a Lincoln Park candy shop
Crain's Shia Kapos reports that car dealer Ed Napleton has purchased the Geneva / Belden Flats, a Lincoln Park condo complex attached to an old candy [...]
Finding the Wright home in Chicagoland
Last week Frank Lloyd Wright's old studio at 25 E Cedar St in the Gold Coast went on the market for $1.7 million. Wright didn't design the 6,000 squ [...]
"A jungle of crumbling tenements"
It is a jungle of crumbling tenements, twisted shacks and filthy alleys. It is an open jail for men who are guilty of no greater crime than being poo [...]
All about the Drake Tower on "Co-op Row"
The first place Joe Zekas and Francesca Rose profiled on their walk down Lake Shore Drive was the Drake Tower, one of the most sought-after building [...]
For landmarked Prairie Avenue listing, pictures speak louder than words
Fred Scovell of Keller Williams Realty - West Loop included 16 great photos with his listing for the mansion at 2801 S Prairie Ave on the Near Sou [...]
Lake Park Crescent immersed in Chicago history
One of the many perks of buying a new home at Lake Park Crescent in North Kenwood-Oakland is being able to live in an area steeped in Chicago histor [...]
The Habitat Company: "doing a lot of everything" in Chicago
The Habitat Company has been a pioneer in both the construction and management of affordable housing throughout Chicago. In this segment from our wi [...]
The Habitat Company: perception vs. reality
Although it's currently perceived as a developer of luxury housing in prime locations, the reality is that many of The Habitat Company's locations w [...]
Habitat Company's Mark Segal, on succeeding two Chicago icons
The Habitat Company has changed the face of Chicago. Over the past 30 years, Habitat has developed more than 17,000 residential units and currently [...]
Shark bites: Garrison makes the sale in Obama's neighborhood
You don't see a lot of Chicago home sales make national headlines, but all sorts of news outlets are carrying stories this morning about the sale of [...]
It's neighborhood tour time — what would you like to see this year?
Spring is finally here, which means we'll be spending a lot more time outside on the afternoons and weekends in search of homes and 'hoods to tour. We [...]