It looks beautiful!
How did the mansion of Harley Clarke become the city property?
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I found this-The mansion’s construction was completed in 1927, 12 years before Harley Clarke and his family (after filling bankruptcy and then rebuying in his wife's name) sold the house to the Sigma Chi national fraternity. In 1965, in decent condition, the City of Evanston purchased it for $265,000 (£208k), it was leased to the Evanston Arts Center for a symbolic one dollar a year. After no maintenance for 50 years, the city decided it was a liability and talked about demolition. The community voted and the mansion was recently sold and will become a boutique 10 room hotel.