Tag: National Register of Historic Places
Video – a 5-bedroom, 5 ½ bath Astor Street landmark
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tour new luxury apartments at the Shoreland in Hyde Park
The Shoreland is a Hyde Park landmark, once one of its grandest hotels and now its newest luxury apartments.
The Studio Gang-inspired renovatio [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Sheridan Park 6-flats, built to look like mansions
The 6-flat has long been one of Chicago's most popular housing types – so popular, in fact, that you can find very few in lakefront neighborhoods [...]
A park bordered on 3 sides by parking lots
Armour Square is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. The Chinatown neighborhood occupies the northern part of Armour Square. US Cellular Field an [...]
Affordable loft apartments planned for South Lawndale
Storkline Furniture was once one of the nation's largest manufacturers of infant and child furniture, but its sprawling factory at the bleak weste [...]
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 [...]
Quote of the day: Pilsen’s Bohemian builders and Mexican preservationists
The Pilsen Historic District is bounded roughly on the east and west by Halsted St (800 W) and Western Ave (2400 W), on the south by Cermak Rd (22 [...]
Beverly, one of the best old house neighborhoods
The April issue of This Old House magazine singles out Beverly as one of the nation's "best old house neighborhoods" for 2012.
This Old House, [...]
Ridding oneself entirely of the coal and servant problems
The documents prepared to nominate properties or districts for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places are often wonderfully enterta [...]
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