Ringling Brothers Mansion For Sale in Evanston

The Evanston mansion once home to Charles Ringling, co-founder of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, is back on the market - seeking only its seventh owner in nearly a century of being a staple in the city’s Lakeshore Historic District.

Designed in 1913 by Ringling’s go-to architect Alfred C. Clas, the brick Georgian, an Evanston historic landmark, is on the market for the first time since 1996 at a listing price of $3,195,000 - according to Chicago Magazine.

A feature on the property points out for decades the property was a clergy house, “with priests taking the main house and nuns the coach house.”

When current owners Margaret and Joe Flanagan took over in 1996, “relics of this cloistered era were evident in bits of an intercom system, a locker room with shower stalls taking up part of the attic, and an uncommonly communal layout.”

The home, with seven bedrooms, is the third-priciest listing in Evanston.

Read more via Chicago Magazine

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