WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT OUR HOME
The Hamilton Association building is in a lovely historic section of southeast Evanston, very close to the city limits of Chicago, near two famous academic institutions: Northwestern University in Evanston and Loyola University of Chicago.
The neighbors are friendly and include retired folks, working people, and several Northwestern professors. The resident association is well run and backed by a management company, and involvement with the association is always welcome.
The apartment includes a master bedroom with a gas fireplace and a bath, a kitchen, and a second bathroom. There are six additional rooms in various sizes and shapes to be used as you see fit: one has extensive shelving and can be an office, a library, or a bedroom; another can be a TV room or bedroom; the third is a sunroom; fourth, a living room with another gas fireplace; fifth, a large dining room; and sixth, a small office area off the living room. In addition, there is a comfortable back porch where folks can gather and grill. Directly down the back stairs is a common courtyard for potluck meetings, dinners, and sometimes movies shared with other residents. The most outstanding feature of this apartment is light, pouring in from 17 large windows, moving daily from east to west. There is central air and heat, enhanced by six ceiling fans (clockwise in winter, the reverse in summer) and by this unit’s unique floorplan, unlike the “railroad car” design of many vintage apartments, arranging rooms like spokes of a large wheel.
Living here was a joy for us for eight years and for our tenants during their nine years here. Springtime transforms the apartment into a treehouse, and fills the house with birdsong. Summer features many activities in Evanston and on the lake front, a five-block walk to swimming and boating beaches. Chicago is within easy reach with a two-block walk to either the Purple Line of the L or the Metra commuter train, and the train provides access to concerts both downtown and at Ravinia. Every imaginable service is within walking distance: Trader Joe’s, a Jewel market, Space (a music venue), many restaurants, schools, churches, the Northwestern campus, doctors and dentists. There are two excellent hospitals within a five minute drive.
Winter, well, winter is for enjoying morning coffee by the fireplace or in the sunroom as the snowflakes fall. We and our tenants the Logues (who contributed to this account) have obviously loved this place and hope that you will too.
John and Alice Blegen
Judy and Ed Logue
May, 2022