199 E LAKE SHORE Drive, Chicago, IL 60611

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$4,897,747

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Rare residence comes to market, no property exists like this one, lives like an extra wide single family —a 9600+ square foot home with 2500+ square feet of outdoor, rooftop living in one of Chicago’s most prestigious intimate buildings on East Lake Shore Drive. Welcome home, into a world of luxury, sophistication, and incomparable service in this 1913 Benjamin Marshall Beaux Arts 11 story masterpiece with only 13 residences. Your sprawling penthouse sits on the 10 and 11 floors offering you picture perfect, unobstructed, sweeping panoramas of Oak Street Beach, the Park, Lake Michigan, and Lake Shore Drive from 112 feet of window line, in addition to the four outdoor spaces that provide these unforgettable views. Your treasured home features impressive grand room sizes, abundant light from north, south, east, and west exposures, five fireplaces, three 12 foot long terraces conveniently located off the public rooms, beautiful hardwood floors, elegant vintage details, sought after walnut paneling and millwork, a grand foyer with vaulted ceiling for the most exquisite two story, curved staircase, a spacious entry hall, opulent living room with unforgettable bay window, formal dining room that easily accommodates a table for more than 24 people, stately library, the perfect home offices or one home office and one private gym, enormous gourmet, eat in kitchen with all the bells and whistles for any discerning chef to work within, family room, billiards room, sun room, observatory with 22 foot ceiling, a primary bedroom with dual connecting baths and room sized dual walk in dressing rooms, multiple powder rooms throughout, a huge laundry equipped with lots of counter space, side by side washer and dryer, and utility sink. Appreciate those features you might need such as endless closets/storage throughout, temperature-controlled wine room, a currently configured three-bedroom floor plan that converts back into eight bedrooms, five HVAC systems, and two storage rooms that measure 80 and 480 square feet respectively. Covet the convenience of your three indoor, attached, heated garage spaces in addition to your private two car garage with lift. 199 East Lake Shore Drive has a long history and presence in Chicago, but the convenience of its location today puts all the famous dining, world class shopping, endless entertainment, and activity rich lakefront outside your door. It’s time you came home!