My residence for the next day is Belle Casa on Lake Shore Drive overlooking Lake Michigan. It is one of the first homes built in Long Beach, Indiana, about an hours drive east of Chicagos downtown Loop. It was built in 1920 by a Cicero politician who was one of those responsible for bringing Al Capone to Chicago from New York. It is a lovely historic Spanish Colonial Revival home complete with stucco and red tile roof. There are many stories about the house and its infamous inhabitants from the Capone mob days era. One is that Baby Face Nelson rented the house during the last three years of his life in the early 1930s during the summers. That would stand to reason as he signed the beams in the basement underneath where all the gang used to play cards with his real name of Lester Gillis. In fact, the story has been told to me that the original owner of the house lost the house on February 22, 1932 in a card game to the next owner, a connected Cook County politician and corrupt judge. That is also documented with a signature of the beams on that date. The people I bought the house from were the heirs of a connected Cook County Commissioner from Chicagos Ward No. 2 and had stories galore for me when I bought the house. They said that their father used to open up the bay windows out on to the beach and play his grand piano in the afternoons often causing an impromptu little concert of beach goers. But I like the house for its warm and inviting old world feel. This house on a rare double corner lot on one of the three intersections with a stop sign (so the beach traffic has to come to a stop in front of the house) right across the street from one of the Long Beachers favorite beaches in the historic little summer resort town of Long Beach, Indiana is FOR SALE. Contact me if you want the brokers information.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:16:11 +0000
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