'Lighter' House Planned for Evanston Lakefront Property

A 1.2-acre lakefront property on Ingleside Place in Evanston will likely see a “lighter” home in its spot in the near future.

Evanston residents Margaret and Joe Flanagan, who bought the property for $3.6 million in May, want to design a home of about 7,500 square feet - according to Crain’s Chicago. Plans are to tear down the existing structure.

“We’re not going to be living up on a bluff, away from the water,” said Joe Flanagan, who heads Evanston-based sales force outsourcing firm Acquirent.

The new home will be “lighter than the big substantial, brick homes that people traditionally built on the lakefront,” Margaret added.

The Flanagans are working with architect Phil Liederbach of Liederbach & Graham, who plan to begin construction in 2016 and move in the next year.

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