Uptown home of Fannie May co-founder for sale
As the home of a woman in business in the 1920s, the house should be a landmark, says a Chicago preservationist.
Dennis Rodkin
The former home of Mildred King Hyde, who launched with her first husband the Fannie May candy business and may have funded the startup herself, will soon go up for sale in Uptown.
The brick and limestone house was built about 1902 on Castlewood Terrace, an Uptown street three blocks long lined with handsome homes built from the 1890s through the 1920s.
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The asking price for the home four-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot home is $995,000, according to Ward Miller, the head of Preservation Chicago. His group wants to get landmark designation for the house, “home of a woman who in the 1920s started a business that we still enjoy today,” Miller said.