PHOTOS: Mansion that survived Great Chicago Fire up for sale

Tuesday, May 23, 2017
A house that survived one of the most famous fires in American history has just been listed for $2.85 million.


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According to Coldwell Banker's Julie Busby, the 6-bedroom, 4 1/2 bath mansion was built in 1867 and survived the Great Chicago Fire, which devastated large swaths of Chicago just four years later.
The 6,900-square-foot home now sits on a double-wide lot on the corner of Montana and Surrey Court in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood - but that wasn't always the case. After the fire, the city banned wood-frame structures in its original location, so the owner decided to relocate the home to Lincoln Park rather than demolish it.
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While the home was remodeled 16 years ago, Busby said it still retained many details from the 19th century.
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