Wonderful house! So many fabulous details. Tell me it doesn’t have a gas station across the street and a factory next door. Mary Lee recently posted…On the Verge of a Purge
Thankfully it’s in a quiet, older, residential area where the village office, the police department and the park district is located. They have been trying to see it for a few years now. No taker yet.
Thank you for visiting and commenting! I was going to say, yup, that’s why I started buying lottery tickets. But then I thought: I’ll buy a mansion on the beach if I win! 🙂
Now, why did you have to say it was for sale? I’m with Linda at Bar Mitzvahzilla, I want a big old house just for the cool stuff. I still have in my head the memorized layouts of every huge old house I’ve been in. I’ll decorate and furnish them from my bed in the nursing home. Diane Laney Fitzpatrick recently posted…Fact- Florida Trees are Wussies
And we’ll go swim in the pool in the house next door and find strange golden egg-shaped things on the bottom… Oh, sorry. I just think of the movie Cocoon every time nursing home is mentioned… 😉
My inner architectural historian is dying to know about the onion-dome moldings above the two windows on the second floor of the Norman-style tower. The windows don’t appear to be the same size, which makes the moldings even more interesting. Any clues? Nance recently posted…Play Therapy
I have to plead ignorance on this one. Apparently the local community has tried to raise enough fund to purchase the house for the historical society but it was not successful. I found very minimum info on the wiki:
Nice. I’d love to live in a historical house too, mostly because I majorly lust after wood floors, cool baseboards, ceiling mouldings, medallions, antique chandeliers, etc., etc.! Where I live, the old house are pueblos, which don’t exactly excite me in the same manner… Linda at Bar Mitzvahzilla recently posted…Miss Yakity Yak
Well, we do have the Frank Lloyd Wright fame, but otherwise the Chicago suburban area is really not famous for “old” houses either. When we started looking in Boston area for potential housing, THAT was eye-opening. But everything is so expensive. My very “adorable” husband asked incredulously, Now why do I want to pay $800K for a house that’s almost a century old?! LOL
That’s awesome! So does it make me totally lame that, because I love history so much, I sometimes daydream about living in that time period, in one of those stately houses, wearing a bustle and sporting a parasol? If it wasn’t for the lack of air conditioning, I would have loved it! Jen @ NathanRising recently posted…It’s hot Really- really hot
Quite the great detail work on this place. Very nice pictures. Great finials and other things to please the eye. I bet it would be quite nice to live in this place. Usually I don’t care for large places. Technobabe recently posted…Trust
Wonderful house! So many fabulous details. Tell me it doesn’t have a gas station across the street and a factory next door.
Mary Lee recently posted…On the Verge of a Purge
Thankfully it’s in a quiet, older, residential area where the village office, the police department and the park district is located. They have been trying to see it for a few years now. No taker yet.
oh… that house makes me want to host a fabulous event… with only fabulous people…
Hey, you mean I won’t be invited?! 😉 The thought of a giant party there is very very enticing, isn’t it? *sigh*
Okay, I’m moving into that house. Tomorrow. Sorry.
Can we all come and live in the attic after you move in? Oh, pretty please. *Shrek cat face*
I wish I had that kind of money to buy this gorgeous house…:(
Thank you for visiting and commenting! I was going to say, yup, that’s why I started buying lottery tickets. But then I thought: I’ll buy a mansion on the beach if I win! 🙂
Now, why did you have to say it was for sale? I’m with Linda at Bar Mitzvahzilla, I want a big old house just for the cool stuff. I still have in my head the memorized layouts of every huge old house I’ve been in. I’ll decorate and furnish them from my bed in the nursing home.
Diane Laney Fitzpatrick recently posted…Fact- Florida Trees are Wussies
And we’ll go swim in the pool in the house next door and find strange golden egg-shaped things on the bottom… Oh, sorry. I just think of the movie Cocoon every time nursing home is mentioned… 😉
My inner architectural historian is dying to know about the onion-dome moldings above the two windows on the second floor of the Norman-style tower. The windows don’t appear to be the same size, which makes the moldings even more interesting. Any clues?
Nance recently posted…Play Therapy
I have to plead ignorance on this one. Apparently the local community has tried to raise enough fund to purchase the house for the historical society but it was not successful. I found very minimum info on the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Patten_House
And more pictures here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charles_H._Patten_House_(Palatine,_IL)
Wow! What a beautiful place, and your photos are stunning! Love it!
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Thank you very much for the kind words! Thank you for visiting and commenting!
Nice. I’d love to live in a historical house too, mostly because I majorly lust after wood floors, cool baseboards, ceiling mouldings, medallions, antique chandeliers, etc., etc.! Where I live, the old house are pueblos, which don’t exactly excite me in the same manner…
Linda at Bar Mitzvahzilla recently posted…Miss Yakity Yak
Well, we do have the Frank Lloyd Wright fame, but otherwise the Chicago suburban area is really not famous for “old” houses either. When we started looking in Boston area for potential housing, THAT was eye-opening. But everything is so expensive. My very “adorable” husband asked incredulously, Now why do I want to pay $800K for a house that’s almost a century old?! LOL
I would gladly lend my live in services to that place.
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That’s awesome! So does it make me totally lame that, because I love history so much, I sometimes daydream about living in that time period, in one of those stately houses, wearing a bustle and sporting a parasol? If it wasn’t for the lack of air conditioning, I would have loved it!
Jen @ NathanRising recently posted…It’s hot Really- really hot
LOL. Not lame at all. But the heat. Can you imagine the heat? And the corset… The house is for sale for 1 million I think, 😉
Stunning, such a beautiful house x
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Wow. Just wow.
Dear, want to buy the house? 😉
That’s my kind of house!! Beautiful.
Happy SIMC,
jj
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Happy SIMC to you too!
Quite the great detail work on this place. Very nice pictures. Great finials and other things to please the eye. I bet it would be quite nice to live in this place. Usually I don’t care for large places.
Technobabe recently posted…Trust
It is for sale! 🙂