Beautiful and Historic Rees House in Amazing Location!!

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• Name:
  Sam
• Phone:
  312.656.3039

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Unit Info

• Description
  Come rent the Rees House! This beautiful historical landmark home has 7 large bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, 2 half bathooms, and a full commercial kitchen accommodating up to 16 people and has ample space. Minutes from downtown Chicago. This house is perfect for any large group and has everything you could need.
  
  House History
  
  The Harriet F. Rees House was built in 1888 on Upper Prairie Avenue, one of Chicagos most prestigious residential neighborhoods in the late 19th century. Today it is only one of eight historic homes still standing on Prairie Avenue between 18th Street and Cermak Road. Designed by nationally renowned architects Cobb and Frost, it is an excellent and remarkably intact example of the Romanesque Revival style as expressed in the urban townhouse type. The ornate limestone exterior and the interior detailed in rich woods and filled with fireplaces and other built-in features, are virtually unchanged from its original historic appearance.
  
  Its first owner was Harriet F. Rees, widow of real estate pioneer and land surveyor, James H. Rees, who lived there just four years until her death at age 75 in 1892. Second owners were Edson Keith, Jr., a milliner, and his family. Keiths daughter, Katherine (Mrs. David Adler, Jr.) was a published author. By 1920, 2110 S. Prairie Avenue was serving as a rooming house, and it passed through various uses as apartments and offices, and in the early 1970s it housed the Prairie House Cafe. For many years after that it stood abandoned and neglected. Today, under new private ownership it is undergoing a meticulous restoration that will return it to its original glory.
• Price
  6900 (Rent per month)
• Address
  2110 S. Prairie
  Chicago, IL 60616
• Bedrooms
  7
• Bathrooms
  5
• Date Available
  10/06/2010, 00:00:00
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