Real Estate Articles tagged with: 632 n fair oaks avenue
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One of America’s greatest architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, began designing homes in Oak Park in 1889. Radically new in conception, the Prairie Style Homes designed by Wright featured low horizontal lines, open floor plans, and clerestory windows; they fit the landscape and the exterior brick and stucco in earth tones were a dramatic contrast to Victorian frame houses. Wright worked with other architects including Richard Bock, William Eugene Drummond, Marion Mahony Griffin, Walter Burley Griffin. Other architects in the Prairie- Style School—George W. Maher, John Van Bergen, and E.E. Roberts …
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Victorian Houses In the Oak Park Real Estate Market
Famous for being the birthplace of writers Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Rice Burroughs (“Tarzan” novels), Oak Park, established in 1848, grew up as a village in the Victorian period and its graceful, tree-lined streets have Victorian houses galore. These “painted ladies” feature spacious wrap-around porches, arches, turrets, gingerbread trim, and external ornate details. Interior space, first designed for large families, now continues to provide ample living areas, with multiple bedrooms, high ceilings, impressive moldings, fireplaces, and frequently third floors with additional space …
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The Oak Park real estate market on some level is an extension of the Chicago Real Estate market and currently has many interesting opportunities available both for home owners and investment property.
Chicago’s urban tree-canopied suburb of Oak Park offers families and singles an array of comfortable Prairie four-squares, painted Victorians and townhouses & condominium developments alongside Frank Lloyd Wright landmarks.
Just nine miles from downtown Chicago’s financial and commercial center, Oak Park’s residential front-porch neighborhoods are dotted with excellent local schools, recreation centers, and playing fields. One of Chicago’s top schools, …