New pictures of the Linwood Apartments!

Exciting! The Linwood Apartments are for sale (again). I added a lot more photos to this post. Check them out!

Linwood Apartments, 6801 McPherson Boulevard

It's a beautiful day for a dog walk! And, I had to restrain myself from putting an exclamation point in the title of this post. Porter and I visited the! Linwood! Apartments! One of my favorites, since they are so similar to my apartment building, the Old Heidelberg.

The Linwood Apartments were designed at the same time as the very-similar Whitehall Apartments, which we looked at here. Like the Old Heidelberg, it has a T-shaped design but only 6 units. Aurand's book tells me that the maid's quarters differ from those of the Old Heidelberg. Like the Old Heidelberg, the individual apartment entry doors have art glass windows and the interiors have wood trim, window seats and build-in cupboards.

I absolutely love them.

Click to enlarge this! 

Can you spot Porter the Beagle in this photo?

A pergola joins the two sides of the Linnwood Apartments.

Entry, today.

An older photo in Martin Aurand's book shows a stained glass motif in the front door and domed lamps flanking the entry.

Today, you can see stained glass windows on the second floor balconies, just like the Old Heidelberg and Whitehall Apartments. Photos in Aurand's book show gorgeous French doors, which must have come out. (I feel so late to the party.) These tapered wood posts are straight out of the Old Heidelberg. 

A peek inside a dining room. Look at the ceiling!

The realtor who sold the building (for $465,000) in 2013 writes:

"Each front to back unit is 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and has 2 ornate fireplaces, 1 with a brass hood/marble surround and the other with tile.  All floors are hardwood.  Lots of beautiful woodwork.  In the main hall, skylights shine light down through stained glass.  Each apartment door features a detailed stained art glass panel. 

Pergola is located at the front of the building.  Each unit has a front porch almost big enough to be a bedroom, with the the top two floors’ porches being enclosed.  The roof is clay tile.  The foundation features massive blocks of sandstone and enormous I-beams built to last.  The exterior walls are very thick brick with stucco overtop."

Porter is irrationally happy to see me again. 

Exciting update! September 17, 2014: I found interior shots! It looks almost JUST like the Heidelberg.

See what I mean? It's gorgeous!

View from the dining room, through the foyer and into the living room, with balcony yonder.

Living room

The tile on the lower right of this photo shows that this is the spot in the dining room where the Old Heidelberg has a window seat. I'm not sure whether a window seat was removed from or never existed here. I noticed the outlet, of which the Heidelberg has very few!

So lovely! This is where the Old Heidelberg has French doors. 

Stained glass windows in the main bedroom

Update! April 27, 2015The Linwood Apartments are for sale again, at an asking price of $720,000. The listing offers some more interior shots.

Whitehall Apartments, 201 East End Avenue

I used to refer to this beautiful building a "mini-Heidelberg." The layout is pretty much identical, but smaller. It shares the window seats, fireplaces and built-in china cabinets, in all the same places as the Heidelberg. The Whitehall Apartments, designed in 1906 along with the Linwood Apartments, are a very short dog walk from the Old Heidelberg.

They amount to one-half of the original Old Heidelberg, with two apartments on each of the three floors. Like the Old Heidelberg, the apartments each have an art glass flower in their front door, as well as window seats, built-in china cabinets and fireplaces in the living and dining rooms.

I toured a second floor condo in 2013, hoping that I might buy it. At that time, it had been sorely neglected and needed a massive rehab and update. Many of the walls and ceilings were crumbling. The kitchen was not equipped with a refrigerator, and the real estate agent who took me through was not sure there was adequate electricity to have a fridge in that room. The apartment still used knob and tube electricity, and there were limited outlets. It sold for $70,000, to someone else.

 
 

Interior door

Interior, one of the living rooms leading to the balcony 

Interior, one of the living rooms

Interior, one of the bedrooms 

Interior, view from a living room into foyer, dining room, then kitchen

UPDATE ON JANUARY 16, 2016: How exciting! TWO of the condos are for sale right now!

Unit 1 is listed for $165,000.

Unit 6 is listed for $175,000.

Here are some photos.

Unit 6:





 








 











Unit 1: