A five-bedroom historic mansion at 316 Elizabeth Place, , is one of several million-dollar properties listed for sale in the Fox Valley. Roger Erikson and Debora McKay of The McKay Group and Coldwell Banker Global Luxury listed the limestone, 9,666-square-foot home with six and a half bathrooms and three fire places on 1.6 acres for $2.
3 million. “It was originally built by Henry Bond Fargo in 1899,” Erickson said. “It has a cool intrigue to it.
And it’s walking distance to downtown Geneva.” Fargo was Geneva’s mayor in 1903. The mansion has pocket doors where areas can be closed off.
Erickson said part of the house was a dance hall back in its day, so the pocket doors - doors that can slide into a wall – would set apart the dance area from the living areas. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The for sale in Geneva is still the one at 940 Meadows Road, reduced from $3,999,999 last year to $3.
5 million now, listed through Michael LaFido of LPTn Realty. LaFido said they repainted with more neutral colors, changed out light fixtures and removed some of the owner’s personal items. At over 13,000 square feet, it has five bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, six-car garage, in-house theater, sleeping porch, golf simulator and a 1,00-square-foot closet in the primary bedroom.
“This has the best walk-in closet,” LaFido said. “I’ve been in $90-million-dollar homes and I have never seen a closet like at 940 Meadows. It’s absolutely .