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Three Slices of Goldberg’s Marina City Pie
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $535,000
The Property: Would you like a slice of pie? How about three? This Marina City condo combines three of the buildings’ famously pie-shape studio apartments into a single two-bedroom, two-bath home. And it comes with a delicious topping: three of the distinctive semi-circular balconies, which together provide a crescent of views of the downtown skyline, as well as the Chicago River and its historic bridges... Read more
A Lincoln Park House of Unknown Origin
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4 million
The Property: Although it’s one of the biggest and most eye-catching homes on a Lincoln Park street lined with landmarks, there is very little known about the origins of today’s house. That’s surprising, because someone in the early 1890s did a fine job of creating a distinctive home with a broad façade of rough-hewn stone capped by a turret and a mansard roof... Read more
Looking Good, Inside and Out, at the Fordham
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.995 million
The Property: There’s a tasteful three-bedroom condo for sale on the 42nd floor of the Fordham, the 50-story condo tower at 25 East Superior Street, but some of its appeal comes from what lies outside its walls—as well as what doesn’t... Read more
East Lake Shore Drive’s Marshall Plan
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.595 million
The Property: Designed by the architect Benjamin Marshall and completed in 1912, the brick and limestone confection that is 999 North Lake Shore Drive set the tone for what would become one of Chicago’s most elegant neighborhoods: East Lake Shore Drive... Read more
Aloft Armour Square
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $525,000
The Property: Set in a small tower atop a five-story loft building in Armour Square, this three-story loft sits among some of the Near  South Side’s most interesting neighborhoods. The dining, shopping, and culture of Chinatown, Pilsen, and Bridgeport are all in easy reach—and they can all be seen from the loft’s four different balconies... Read more
At the Heart of the Woods, in Oak Brook
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.999 million
The Property: Today’s house is named Woods End, but given its sylvan setting, it really ought to be called Woods Heart. It’s a series of steep-roofed pavilions, each containing a major part of the living space and topped with huge skylights. The rear of the house is walled with windows and wrapped with an elevated 175-foot-long deck... Read more
A Roomy Beauty in the Villa
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.19 million
The Property: In the early 20th century, the Villa neighborhood was advertised as “The Beauty Spot of the Northwest Side.” Its Arts and Crafts houses are still there, as are the landscaped parkways and the stone light posts (although those are now used as planters), and only a few out-of-character buildings have been added... Read more
Less Is Moor on the Gold Coast
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $899,000
The Property: Among the many well-preserved historical homes in the Gold Coast, the one at 1325 North Dearborn Street stands out for its façade, which is graced with 17 Moorish arches, most of them trimmed with blue mosaic glass. Known as the Lucius Mantonya Flats and dating to 1887, the building, designed by Curd Gottig, was originally the single-family home of L. B. Mantonya, a prominent Chicago shoe and boot wholesaler... Read more
A Timeless Manor in Wheaton
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.35 million
The Property: At the end of a long private drive through an enclave of notable Wheaton homes stands this columned, ivy-covered manor. Although it looks as if it might have been picked up from some historical setting, it’s just 20 years old. It borrows, however, from the traditions of country homes in the United Kingdom and some of the grand Georgians in Virginia... Read more
Building on the Past—Wilmette
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.199 million
The Property: In 1910, John A. Nourse, a Chicago lumberman and veteran of the Civil War—where he served with the Chicago Board of Trade Battery—moved his family to a big new residence on a large lot in Wilmette. A century later, the neighborhood still has brick-paved streets, and the house remains a stately presence on its corner. But the place has been expanded and updated to provide for a 21st-century family, while keeping much of its early 20th-century charm intact... Read more