The last three weeks have been busy. The first four weeks of our renovation was nothing but demo work. It’s refreshing to see the house being put back together. Our masons have done a wonderful job of building the house back up to it’s former glory- arched front windows and all. We were able to reuse all original face brick, mostly from the front stairs. Reusing the face brick from the stairs allows us to match the original brick of the remaining front facade. Our masonry team was able to include all the original limestone detailing into the front wall. The team has also rebuilt the firewall/parapet walls along the roof. We have reused as many bricks as possible for both the front wall and roof line to save the materials and preserving the character of the property.

Keep your fingers crossed that we continue to be spared the heavy Chicago winter snow. Just another week or two and hopefully our next post will be about our wonderful new roof!