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An 1890s apartment building the CTA moved out of the way as part of the expansion of the Red Line tracks is up for sale now that major work on the Lakeview project is complete.

The Vautravers was the only building the CTA saved in the construction zone around Newport Avenue and Clark Street. In 2021, Wolfe House & Building Movers lifted the three-story, 850-ton building onto a raft and slid it 29 feet and 6 inches west of the Newport Avenue site where it had stood since 1894.

The CTA now has a request for proposals out, with a Feb. 25 submission deadline for offers to buy and revive the building and a small parcel of land adjacent to it. Also up for sale are two other small pieces of empty land on Clark Street.

The RFP does not include an asking price for the property. The CTA paid $1.75 million for the Vautravers and reportedly spent an equal amount on moving and stabilizing the structure after shifting it west.

A three-story limestone structure, the Vautravers has hammered copper window bays and a copper cornice as well as a carved "slot" window in a projection off one corner and entry stairs set into a limestone frame with the building's name carved into it. It's part of the Newport Avenue Historic District, declared by the city in 2005 for its "high-quality working-class residential architecture constructed in Chicago's neighborhoods during the late 19th and early 20th centuries."

Read more here: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/cta-seeks-buyer-lakeviews-historic-vautravers-building?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=soc-own