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Doctor Chooses True Love Over Kenwood Greystone That Marries Old and New
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.45 million
The Property: When Dr. Srinivas Reddy bought this 1893 greystone on Drexel Boulevard in 2002, it was empty and recently foreclosed. Its exterior urgently needed maintenance, and its three-story interior had been chopped up into six apartments that might charitably be described as shabby... Read more
Beyond the Secret Garden, in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.99 million
The Property: The formal, Parisian-styled façade of this home masks its past life as a warehouse, just as the stone wall that extends from it conceals a lovely garden through which a path winds to the house’s broad glass front doors... Read more
Merry Olde Evanston
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.59 million
The Property: From its large turret to its leaded-glass windows and beamed ceilings, this well-kept home from 1893 (with a 1930s addition) contains many attractive Tudor details... Read more
Bienvenue to the South Loop
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,499,900
The Property: This 4,300-square-foot condo on the 19th floor of a century-old building on South Michigan Avenue has expansive views of Grant Park, the skyline, and Lake Michigan—but it is laid out with the convenience of suburban ranch house... Read more
This Sale Kilt a Two-Year Orren Pickell Dry Spell
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.618 million
Sale Price: $3.1 million
The Property: A 13-room house built in 2008 by Orren Pickell Designers & Builders as the model home in what was to be an enclave of country mansions in Bannockburn has been sold—but for only 64 percent of what the company had initially asked for it. Read more
Tudor Fantasy in Winnetka
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.185 million
The Property: One in a string of three prominent lakefront homes in Winnetka that are often called “the storybook houses” for their fanciful architecture, this Tudor house has a remarkable living room that seems to have sprung more from a stately English country home than a fairy tale... Read more
Gut Check, in West Andersonville
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $739,000
The Property: In March 2010, the developer Sa Schloff bought somebody else’s botched attempt to turn a two-flat into a single-family home. The first floor had been gutted, the second was a mess, and the work needed to make the place habitable would be extensive... Read more
From Two-Flat to Single-Family in Wicker Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,699,000
The Property: The couple who converted this circa 1889 two-flat in Wicker Park into a single-family home were transferred out of the country shortly after the rehab was finished. The home they left behind has a handsome Victorian brick exterior wrapped around a spacious and sunny renovated interior that retains a few nice vintage details... Read more
An Artfully Crafted Loft in River North
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.199 million
The Property: Set amidst a mix of new high-rises and houses on the western edge of River North is a handsome old brick loft building that was the Stiffel Lamp factory in the neighborhood’s former life as a manufacturing district... Read more
Dome Sweet Home, in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.2 million
The Property: In the early 1990s, the psychologist Chuck Anderson and his wife, Dale Carol Anderson, an interior designer, commissioned this classically styled home for a large, triangular residential lot on what was then the western frontier of Lincoln Park—just east of the formerly industrial Clybourn Avenue. Their architect, Pappageorge Haymes, put the house on one half of the site and a walled garden on the other, with a pillared outdoor rotunda connecting the two... Read more