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Investment Opportunities in Oak Park Real Estate The old saw, “location, location, location” has kept Oak Park property values strong and stable, and with green concerns and energy costs, continues to provide a leading edge for this community that is centrally situated between urban downtown Chicago and the Far West suburbs. Vacancy rates in Oak Park investment property remain consistently low; interest in redevelopment remains high. Many opportunities exist in the multiple commercial and business districts as well as in the residential sectors.
Ideal Location Chicago Real Estate’s broker Eli Schultz, …
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When the arts and crafts movement hit the Midwest in the late nineteenth century, it dramatically influenced architecture, interior design, and home furnishings. Elements of the original arts and crafts ideal surface in Oak Park property in its neighborhood houses, and in contemporary arts and crafts designers, restorers, and antique arts and crafts dealers. Craftsman houses are known for the interior built-ins, including cabinets, shelves and seating, superior carpentry, lots of lead-glass and stained glass windows, and dark wood wainscoting and moldings. Many craftsman houses have beamed ceilings and open …
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When the Gunderson Brothers built houses in Oak Park more than one hundred years ago, they had families in mind: lots of spacious bedrooms and dining and living spaces for get-togethers and gatherings. The Gundersons wanted the best quality and hired an architect, Frank Osborn De Money to design the homes. They even brought craftsmen from Norway to build the houses. These were going to be homes that were comfortable and built to last. Several hundred houses in the Prairie-style dotted Oak Park properties and are now designated as Oak …
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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 …