#100348418
Date received: 6/16/10
Address: 1157 W. Drummond
Ward: 32
Applicant: Precision Excavation
Owner: Fred Bender Trust, Bender Enterprise Limited Partnership
Permit Description: Wreck and remove a 2-story single family house
Status: Under review
Inexplicably, this property is on sale for $1.75 million at the same time that someone is attempting to knock it down. One answer could be in the listing:
Beautiful corner double lot zoned r-4 in Lincoln Park. Special brick 2-unit with owner’s duplex up and coach house with 2 rental units. 2-car garage with roof deck. View the lovely yard from the New Orleans-style porch on the brick house.
Maybe they want to tear down the coach house?
According to the latest (June 24) e-mail alert from Preservation Chicago: “…the gingerbread cottage at 1157 W. Drummond is being marketed as both a teardown or a rehab. However, the owners have applied for the demo permit regardless. It has become obvious that the demolition of Orange Rated buildings will continue unabated until the city enacts better public policy. Preservation Chicago will continue pressing the city to do just that. “