From the Outside in Large Yard, Then Good 'Bones' Drew Couple to Home

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By JAN UEBELHERR

If Renee Dries had been able to find a parking spot that August night, she and her husband just might not have gotten this house.

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From the Outside in Large Yard, Then Good 'Bones' Drew Couple to Home

It was a Friday in 2002, and Dries was scouting for a parking space on N. Downer Ave. near the old Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop. Finding none, she turned down a nearby side street and found a space -- and a "for sale" sign.

This house was in the target area Dries and her husband, Michael, chose as they searched (and searched) for a new home. After she told her husband, he looked over the backyard fence and saw an unusual sight on the east side: a huge backyard -- 150 fe...

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