The owner, Bob Markey, 69, purchased this 1900s Tudor-style home in the Lakewood Balmoral Historic District of Chicago for $575,000 in 1999, according to public records. What Mr. Markey found inside the home was a mishmash of influences from past owners: dropped ceilings where there should be Craftsman-style beams, pickled wood where there ought to be untreated oak. He took a meticulous, even 'forensic' approach to restoring it to its original state, he said.
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