ROGERS PARK – Two landmark properties in Rogers Park — together with one designed by Frank Lloyd Wright — are being donated to Loyola College by a Pritzker member of the family’s firm.
The Emil Bach Home, 7415 N. Sheridan Street, and the Lang Home Chicago, 7421 N. Sheridan Street, had been donated to Loyola by TAWANI Property Administration, an organization based by Col. Jennifer Pritzker, Governor JB Pritzker’s cousin.
Each properties are historic mainstays of Rogers Park and are paying homage to a time when Sheridan Street was lined with stately lakefront mansions. They’ve been owned by Rogers Park-based TAWANI for eight years, in keeping with the corporate.
“Emil Bach Home and Lang Home Chicago have a long-standing reference to TAWANI Property Administration,” Jennifer Pritzker mentioned in a assertion. “This donation is meant to additional Loyola College’s mission, improve its campus infrastructure, and underscore TAWANI’s enduring dedication to supporting the group and fostering instructional progress.”
TAWANI additionally donated $1 million to Loyola for the maintenance and working bills for the properties, the corporate introduced in late January. The Solar-Instances’ Lee Bey first reported on the donation.
The Emil Bach Home is a big, Prairie type home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1915 and holds three bedrooms, two bogs, a Japanese tea home, and several other design options distinctive to a Wright property – together with his geometric layering and fashionable home windows.
The home was designated a Chicago landmark in 1977 and was entered into the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations in 1979.
The Lang Home is a 1919 lakefront mansion situated subsequent door to the Emil Bach Home and was designed by architect Edgar Newman. The Prairie-style mansion comes with two ranges of outside decks, a sauna and a traditionally preserved inside that includes ornamental home windows and ornate wooden finishings.
TAWANI restored the properties earlier than renting them out to friends the world over. The corporate would hire out the Bach home for trip stays and operated a mattress and breakfast out of Lang Home.
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lang Home held a contest to offer important employees an opportunity to win a free two-night keep on the Rogers Park mansion.
TAWANI closed its hospitality arm in 2023, resulting in some uncertainty on what would occur to the historic properties. The corporate additionally lately offered the previous Mayne Stage theater in Rogers Park to Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz, who has turned the power right into a magic theater.
Loyola, whose campus neighbors the historic properties, mentioned in a press release the buildings will probably be used for pupil programming and group occasions, amongst different makes use of.
“This exceptional present of two historic properties to our campus is a testomony to the enduring energy of schooling and group,” Fr. Tom Neitzke, vp at Loyola, mentioned in a press release. “We’re deeply grateful to TAWANI Basis for this beneficiant contribution, which is able to enrich the lives of our college students and foster connections that reach far past our campus.”
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