Along Jackson Boulevard on the city’s near West Side, the 1500 block stands out as an island of intact 19th-century homes amidst developments from the 20th century, such as the esteemed Whitney Young High School, and the 21st century, including the countless condos of the West Loop.
Even on this standout block, the house that Jeanne and Jarrett Stevens rehabbed in recent years is special. Its stucco façade with a terra cotta tile roof and twirled window columns give it a Spanish flair, while most others on the block are Chicago classics: red brick or limestone, with window bays and decorative trim.
Inside, there’s original stained glass, a wood-beamed ceiling and vintage terrazzo flooring in the main living area and scraped historical brick walls, all brought back to life by the couple’s rehab.
It wasn’t their first renovation. They’ve done a few other homes in the past, Jeanne Stevens said.
“We love seeing something that was beautiful once become beautiful again,” Jeanne Stevens said. They’re non-profit executives who bought the house in late 2015 and completed it in mid-2016. The project included removing walls to open up the main living space, updating the kitchen and baths in Jeanne Stevens’s charming modern style, adding a back porch and converting a partially finished basement into usable living space.
There’s a rentable coach house in back, above the garage, but because the house is on an unusually deep lot for Chicago, 188 feet, there’s still space for a backyard, too.
Having moved to the suburbs with their two kids, the couple are putting the house up for sale, though only as a private listing with their agent, Matt Laricy of Americorp. It won’t be on the multiple-listing service, but Crain’s readers are getting a look here. The four-bedroom house is about 3,800 square feet, the one-bedroom coach house, about 700 square feet. The price is $1.69 million.
The house is within a few blocks’ walk of Skinner School West and Skinner Park, restaurants and other West Loop businesses, and two CTA Blue Line stops.
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The Spanish flavor of the house comes from its white stucco façade dotted with ornamental crests over the door and upper windows, and Spanish revival twisted columns in the main-floor window set. The house, built in the late 1870s or early 1880s, may have originally been the Spanish consulate in Chicago, according to the homeowners’ research. Crain’s wasn’t able to confirm that.
The house and its front garden are set behind a wrought-iron fence that runs the length of the block. There’s another across the street, and rows of trees along both sidewalks. All of that and the historical facades make this landmark street “the prettiest in Chicago, as far as I’m concerned,” Jeanne Stevens said.
The stucco was a dingy light orange and banged up, old photos reveal, when the couple bought the house in September 2015 for $867,500. The house’s condition at the time was “rough,” Jeanne Stevens said.
In the foyer, vintage finishes including the stained glass windows and the terrazzo floor pair nicely with a new bubbly chandelier. One of the stained glass windows was hidden behind a closet before the renovations, and on the opposite site of the entrance, the wall was closed off. Jeanne Stevens, who designed the rehab, opened both up to enhance the light in the foyer. Removing layers of wallboard, she revealed the scraped brick wall.
Interior walls came down to open up the main living space. The ceiling beams have been sandblasted and the original carved mantelpiece cleaned up.
The three-part window on the front of the house now has a twin on the opposite end of the space, in the kitchen, to pull the main floor together as one single segmented living space.
The rehab made room for a half bath here on the main floor, a new full bath on the second floor and another in the basement; previously, the house had just one bathroom.
Formerly a walled-off back room, the kitchen is now a piece of the main living space. Jeanne Stevens’ flair for complementing historical finishes shows up not only in the new rear window that mimics the one at the other end of the house, but in the smaller arched window that echoes the front door and the wood butler shelving that matches the ceiling beams.
For the kitchen design, Stevens turned to Denise Hauser Design, based in Oak Park. Wide-Jeannplank wood flooring and bulbous pendant lights suggest the home’s vintage, and a wall of storage cabinets lines the right-hand side.
The main bedroom, one of three on the second floor, has a scraped brick wall, historical windows and a wide plank floor.
In a hallway outside the bedroom, Jeanne Stevens designed a half-wall of bookshelves where a staircase handrail would be, to create a kids’ reading space.
The main bathroom, one of two on the second floor, has a graphic-print floor tile, gold fixtures and subway tile in the shower. A walk-in closet is attached.
In the rehab, the partially finished basement became a family room with a workout space adjacent to it. There's also a bedroom and bath here.
The covered back porch is new, and “adds to our living space as long as the seasons allow,” Jeanne Stevens said. The house is nestled between two larger buildings, which gives this space a sense of privacy, she said.
The back yard was a weedy patch of dirt when they arrived, but this couple added a lawn, trees and stone benches, as well as a fire pit area.
The coach house was also gut-rehabbed. Built later than the main house, it has a one-bedroom apartment above a two-story garage. Jeanne Stevens said their nanny lived in the coach house, but that she believes it would rent on the open market for $1,200 to $1,500.
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