WFLD-Channel 32 political editor Mike Flannery placed his seven-bedroom, 8,615-square-foot vintage Colonial Revival-style mansion in Beverly on the market for $1.3 million on March 27.
A onetime Chicago Sun-Times politics and labor reporter, Flannery jumped to television in 1980. He was at WBBM-Channel 2 from 1980 until 2010, when he joined Fox 32 in the same capacity.
Years ago, Flannery sought to sell the mansion, which he purchased in 1986. He listed the mansion for $1.25 million in 2010 before taking it off the market. He then relisted it in 2012 for $1.1 million. He cut his asking price to just below $1 million before pulling it from the market in 2013.
Now, eight years after the home in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood last was for sale, Flannery is taking another shot at selling it. Flannery referred a query to Fox’s public relations staff. Flannery’s listing agent, Nancy Hotchkiss of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago, pointed to details in the mansion’s listing remarks. Hotchkiss added that since the house last was on the market, Flannery updated the kitchen, sunroom and bathrooms, along with repainting the interior.
Flannery told Elite Street in 2010 that he had restored the three-story mansion, which was built from 1887 until 1889 for Chicago Bridge & Iron founder Horace Horton. A noted occupant many years later was baseball umpire Red Ormsby, who owned the home in the 1940s and 1950s.
The mansion has 41/2 bathrooms, four fireplaces, a grand foyer, a library, a sunroom, an in-law arrangement, detailed woodwork and custom plaster moldings, medallions and marble columns.
The mansion had a $13,028 property tax bill in the 2019 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance writer.
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