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Ornate Condo Has Link to Nearby Newberry
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $899,000
The Property: This 2,400-square-foot home is one of six condominiums in an ornate 1878 building that originally housed Grant’s Seminary for Young Ladies. It was built by the same bequest that built the Newberry Library a block north... Read more
No Stone Left Unturned—Hinsdale
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.499 million
The Property: The limestone home from the 1940s that stood on this Hinsdale lot until a couple of years ago is gone but not forgotten. Read more
Fancy Footwork in Lake View
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.250 million
The Property: This extensively renovated Lake View house, which dates to 1887, has one foot in the past and one in the present. A four-year rehab earlier this decade opened up the floor plan to enhance the kind of casual flow preferred today while carefully maintaining the feeling of a vintage home. Read more
Perfectly Powhatan
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $499,000
The Property: When she was appointed by President Obama to an ambassadorial post in Rome last year, Ertharin Cousin was reluctant to let go of her Chicago home, a three-bedroom condo she had painstakingly updated in the Powhatan, the Art Deco treasure at 49th Street and South Lake Shore Drive. Read more
The Brightest of Seven "Sisters" on North Center's Riverfront
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.390 million
The Property: In 2004, a builder put up seven new cedar-sided houses and a mini-riverwalk on the former site of a boat storage yard on the North Branch of the Chicago River a few blocks north of Irving Park Road. Each of the homes has views of the water and of Horner Park. Read more
A Luxe but Homey Retreat in Lake Forest
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.995 million
The Property: This very large, lavish house, set on two acres in western Lake Forest, has a nice array of formal spaces—such as the big dining room and the dark-paneled office—complemented by high-end finishes... Read more
A Sears House Grows Up, in Sauganash
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $499,900
The Property: Fourteen years ago, Jim and Lisa Whittington bought a tiny Sears Catalog house built in the 1920s in the leafy, charming Sauganash neighborhood on the city’s far northwest side. Although it was originally a two-bedroom house with... Read more
An Uptown Genre-Bender
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.95 million
The Property: A cocktail of genres, this house has a harsh 1970s exterior, an interior rich in Victorian ornamentation, and an atrium that could have been borrowed from a Spanish-style home. And while distinctly urban, the place has a big yard worthy of a residence in the suburbs. Read more
Lake Forest's Norman Conquest
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $7.95 million
The Property: When I first visited this Lake Forest house (in 2002, when it was only a year old), I could hardly take my eyes off the living room ceiling, a soaring masterpiece of beams, arches, and planking, all crafted from trees from the same Wisconsin grove. Recently I made a... Read more
Crisply Contemporary in Ukrainian Village
By Dennis Rodkin
The tightly organized geometry of the façade of this house in Ukrainian Village tells everything you might want to know about the interior. With an exterior like that, the inside is going to have to be light, crisp, and artfully laid out. And it is... Read more