Built shortly after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 made the many Chicagoans homeless, The New York Times recently profiled what may be the smallest residence in Old Town/Lincoln Park - a 780-square-foot wood frame cottage on Menomonee St.
The house, originally one of hundreds built from a kit provided by the private Chicago Relief and Aid Society, somehow survived for more 130 years, though with renovations.
It's had a stormy recent history but the New York Times story, which profiles the purchase of the house by its current owner and how he lives there, seems to prove that there's a buyer for every home.
Though it's owner, who purchased it in 2007, quickly found out that he shouldn't pick up his newspaper in his pajamas, as tours walk by the house often and with little predictability.
For the story from The New York Times, click here.
For more on the house from the Chicago History Museum, click here.