Deal Estate: On The Market - Glen Ellyn's Warwood Farm

List Price: $2.45 million
The Property: Prominent on its hilltop site and looking like a hen among chicks, this Arts and Crafts-style mansion is surrounded by the ranch houses and other smaller homes that now occupy all but two acres of its original 300 acres of grounds. Formerly known as Warwood Farm, this Glen Ellyn property was the next-door neighbor of Thornhill, the 1,700-acre estate of Joy Morton that later became the Morton Arboretum. Warwood's 16-room, twin-peaked house was built in the 1910s for W. A. Rogers, a top executive at Chicago Bridge & Iron Works (now CB&I) - which may explain the house's many copper accents, including an enormous two-story window bay on the rear, balcony flooring and balustrades, and rain gutters so big you could almost bathe in them...

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