Bungalow in North Mayfair in Chicago for sale

“It looked so cozy and welcoming,” claimed Jean Ridgeway, a vocation nurse who’s now working for a pharmaceutical firm. Her husband is a retired firefighter.

North Mayfair on the Northwest facet is a neighborhood of vintage homes—bungalows and other style—-that is shown on the Countrywide Sign up of Historic Sites. 

Like a lot of corner residences in the Bungalow Belt, this one particular is a minor even bigger and a small fancier than its neighbors on the block. The entry is a lot more formal, by using a lobby that assignments off the aspect of the home, and a stone pattern wraps the arched doorways amongst the main rooms. 

And like several bungalows that have been cared for by lengthy-time proprietors, the residence has some excellent retro finishes, such as antique tile in the primary toilet and knotty pine paneling in the basement rec place and adjacent rest room. 

With their 4 young ones developed, the Ridgeways, who’ve both equally lived in the town all their lives, strategy to shift to a longtime family getaway on a lake around the Wisconsin line. They’ll place the 2,600-square-foot bungalow, sited on a double ton, on the market place April 28. 

Represented by Romi Olariu of Royal Service Realty, the four-bedroom home is priced at $539,000. 

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