Inside Jenny Holladays Turn of the Century Chicago
I love crusty old homes declares Chicago designer Jenny Holladay. While the Lincoln Park home that she shares with her husband, Whit, and two young children, ages six and three, is indeed oldthe building dates back to the late 1880sit is by no means crusty. In fact, its positively bursting at the seams with a gardens worth of botanical prints in a spectrum of hues that might as well have been specifically prescribed as an antidote to the citys famously long, dreary winters. An eightyear veteran of Summer Thornton Design, Holladay found herself in possession of the fourbedroom Victorian as the result of an assiduous househunting campaign. Determined to find a home in Lincoln Park that maintained its turnofthecentury charmthat gave me that jittery feeling inside of excitement and potential, as she puts itHolladay began dropping letters in the mailboxes of several promisinglooking homes, asking if their owners might be willing to sell. When one wrote back, Holladay leapt to secure the
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