The Co-CEO of @properties | Christie’s International Real Estate, bought the home at 2240 N. Burling St. late last year from his neighbor
Workers tear down a historic home at 2240 N. Burling St. in Lincoln Park on April 24, 2023. The home was built soon after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Thaddeus Wong, the Co-CEO of @properties | Christie’s International Real Estate, bought the home at 2240 N. Burling St. late last year for $2 million from his neighbor Judy Blatherwick, a 79-year-old Chicago Public Schools retiree. Wong filed for a demolition permit in November. But city planners in the 1990s rated the Italianate wood frame historically significant, automatically putting a 90-day hold on the permit.to save the nearly 150-year-old home.
The national Sheffield Historic District covers much of Lincoln Park, including 2240 N. Burling St., but the designation doesn’t protect individual buildings. Between 1993 and 2019, more than 350 buildings, roughly one-third of the Sheffield district’s stock, was either demolished or significantly altered, often transformed from three-flats or other multifamily properties into single-family homes or new condominiums, according to an analysis by Landmarks Illinois.
“I understand some people don’t want the expense of preserving wood buildings, but 2240 is a very early post-Fire building that certainly deserves to be saved, and I think it’s a travesty it’s being torn down,” said Diane Gonzalez, a resident of nearby Old Town. “There is not enough protection, and that’s especially important for Lincoln Park, because its real estate is valuable, and some people want to put up fancy new buildings.
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