Historic Elegance With Modern Amenities And Stunning Gardens

Live adjacent to downtown Glencoe in one of Glencoe’s most compelling, smartly preserved and updated historic landmark homes overlooking a neighborhood park! Show-stopper wrap-around front porch overlooks stunning landscaping and bluestone paths. Relax on your front porch and watch the world go by! Step through substantial, handsome double doors into the foyer with a beautiful curved staircase. Nine feet ceilings and hardwood floors throughout this five bedrooms and two and one-half bathrooms home. Spacious living room with wood-burning fireplace and bay window and separate dining room, with wood-burning fireplace and bay window. Huge double pane windows, almost all replaced, bathe the house in natural light. Nicely equipped open, eat-in kitchen with work desk area, walk-in pantry, stainless steel appliances, gas range, vented exhaust microwave, open to huge family room with access to brick-paver patio with knee wall and large, professionally landscaped yard with pergola featuring climbing roses! Powder room off of the foyer completes the first level. Upstairs, second level has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Expansive primary bedroom features an ensuite compartmentalized bathroom with natural marble finishes, generously sized heavy glass shower and multiple closets. Good-sized second and third bedroom (the second bedroom has a private sitting area). Updated marble hall bathroom with large shower and heavy glass enclosure. Go up another level and find two additional good-sized bedrooms with pine wood floors. Drive-side entry with mud room leads to newer deep, dry nine-foot plus newer finished basement. Very spacious newer two-car detached garage. When this home was moved from a different location in Glencoe in 1996, everything was updated, with many improvements since including a new roof in 2017. See separate list of improvements under additional information. Location cannot be beat. Steps to town. Walk-to train beach top-rated schools (including New Trier High School, a short train or bus ride away). Just down the street charming Glencoe offers top-tier restaurants and boutiques one hundred year old library public parking with electric car chargers! Writer’s Theater parks galore public private golf paddle sport options close by Chicago Botanic Garden Skokie Lagoons with hiking biking canoeing/kayaking Ravinia Music Festival. Vast one-third acre (seventy feet x two hundred feet) lot. This home offers historic charm with modern systems layout. You can have it all! Pristine inside. Interior pictures in about one week.