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| Bremner Biscuit Co. Family Mansion in Hyde Park Neighborhood, Chicago, IL |
CHICAGO, IL --The
Bremner Biscuit Company has been making crackers, including its original
wafer, since before the wafer was created by the founder’s sons in 1902.
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| David F. Bremner Sr. |
Owned by David F.
Bremner Sr., his business became well known when he moved his company from
Cairo, Illinois to Chicago in order to supply his crackers to victims of the
Great Chicago Fire, still on grocery shelves today.
The Bremner family’s
three-story mansion, located just down the street from President Obama’s
home, was recently placed on the market at $2.15 million, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com
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| President Barack Obama |
Located only a few
blocks from the park shoreline of Lake Michigan in the Hyde Park-South
Kenwood neighborhood, the home was designed in 1899 by Benjamin Marshall
who had created many of Chicago’s most palatial residences and the Drake and
Blackstone Hotels.
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| Amelia Earhart |
The
classic-brick-Colonial mansion of 11,097 square feet has everything modern day
houses have lost - huge rooms and even a ballroom with rooms able to serve
multiple purposes.
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| Mary Todd Lincoln |
The home has nine
bedrooms and seven baths with all the original architectural details in place
on a manicured corner lot, plus an updated five-bedroom coach house - 14 bedrooms
in total.
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| Hugh Hefner |
Family reunion comes
to mind with so much space available to house guests overnight with large-group
entertainment space in the third-floor ballroom.
Attractive elements of
the past craftsmanship can be admired in the high, ornate plaster ceilings,
mahogany moldings, paneling and wainscoting.
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| Mahalia Jackson |
The grand-circular
entrance foyer repeats the configuration on the second-floor landing.
The first floor
contains the formal rooms and large library with built-in bookcases and
kitchen; the second floor has six bedrooms and four baths and the third floor
has three bedrooms, two baths, the ballroom-recreation room and a den. There is
also a full basement.
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| Muhammad Ali |
The Bremner Biscuit
Company continued their baking operation in Chicago until 1984 when the family
moved the company to Denver, Colorado where it still manufactures Bremner
Wafers today.
Although they sold the
company in 1999 to Dare Foods, David Bremner’s fifth-generation grandson, Neil,
runs the company’s baking division.
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| Shirley Walker |
Chicago’s Hyde Park
neighborhood is just a few miles south of Downtown Chicago with large homes and
tree-lined streets attracting notable residents such as the Obama family,
Amelia Earhart, Mary Todd Lincoln, Hugh Hefner, Mahalia Jackson and Muhammad
Ali.
It was the site of the
famous 1893 Chicago World’s Fair that included the world’s first Ferris wheel
and first moving sidewalk. Still standing and used today from the fair is the
popular Museum of Science and Industry building.
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| Bremner Mansion Dining Area |
One of Chicago’s
historic mansions steeped in nostalgia for fans of the classic Bremner Wafer,
on the other end of the block from the Obama’s Chicago home, is now for sale,
priced at $2.15 million.
The listing agent is Shirley
Walker of Berkshire Hathaway’s Koenig Rubloff Realty Group, Chicago,
Illinois.
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