The little house that could Historic home sees big changes By ANNA SCHIER aschier@shawmedia.com GLEN ELLYN – After 100 years at 475 Carleton Ave., Glen Ellyn’s smallest house will have a new lot in life starting this week. The home was lifted by a crane Tuesday into a neighbor’s yard at 467 Carleton Ave., where it will be attached to a much larger house as an addition. “I wish more people would be adventurous like this,” said principal architect Jamie Simoneit, who oversaw the project and owns Z+O Architecture and Interiors in downtown Glen Ellyn. Built around 1910, the 528-square-foot structure was never intended to be a residential building, Simoneit said. It was originally designed as a two-car garage with a storage
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The house at 467 Carleton Ave. will grow 528 square feet with the attachment of Glen Ellyn’s smallest home, formerly located at 475 Carleton Ave. and rendered above in red. loft as part of a Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order Modern Home kit. However, its first owners built the kit supplies into a one-bedroom home, where their daughter lived her entire life until 2007, according to Simoneit, when the property
was sold to a pair of renovators, Eric and Nora Napientec, who had big plans for the little house. The building is one of two Sears garage homes in Glen Ellyn, Simoneit said, although
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Glen Ellyn’s smallest home, formerly located at 475 Carleton Ave., was moved by a crane Tuesday to a new property.
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