UPTOWN — An 11-bedroom mansion built in the early 1900s on Sheridan Road is for sale.
The St. Augustine Center for American Indians, at 4516 N. Sheridan Road, is being marketed as an "amazing opportunity to own an historic mansion with many vintage details intact." The property's asking price is $650,000, according to Berkshire Hathaway.
Daily masses are still being held at 8 a.m. weekdays, according to an employee of the St. Augustine Center.
The single-family, three-story building has 11 bedrooms, one full-bathroom, four half-bathrooms and five parking spots in the back. It was originally built by a doctor in 1905 and used for student housing, according to the Berkshire Hathaway website.
"Most of the amazing Victorian details are still in place, and could be restored including grand staircase, stained glass windows, cast crown moldings, doors, fireplaces, etc.," the website said.
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The center provided casework and supportive services for the city's Native American community from 1976 to 2006, when the services were discontinued, according to Modern Manuscripts from the Newberry Library. Since then, it has concentrated on helping Uptown's homeless population of all races.
It was founded by Father Peter J. Powell to offer social services after the Indian Relocation Program, a federal program that "moved Indian families from the reservations to major cities." In 1963, it became "the first Indian center to receive a War on Poverty grant to train Native American counselors and provide direct assistance to families," the website said.
While Uptown was once the city's Native American population center, the neighborhood lost one-third of its Native American residents in the 1980s and another 41 percent in the 1990s. By the 2000s, there were less than 400 Native American residents, according to the Chicago Reporter.
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