New Orleans | $2.6 Million

A condo in a 1922 converted school building with a four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom primary unit and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom guest apartment, on a 5,257-square-foot lot

This home is one of just two units in a building in the oak-studded Garden District. It is less than two blocks from the streetcar (and Mardi Gras parade route) on St. Charles Avenue; three blocks from the boutiques, cafes and bars along Magazine Street; and four blocks from the historic Lafayette Cemetery No. 1.

Size: 5,844 square feet (combined)

Price per square foot: $445

Indoors: A private entrance through bright purple doors takes you into a slate-floored vestibule. From there, glass doors lead into the one-bedroom guest apartment (more about that later).

Up a flight of stairs with a leopard runner (or reached by an elevator) is the 4,802-square-foot main space, which has 14-foot ceilings and begins with a hallway with glossy-black-painted floors that runs clear to the back of the building. The first room on your left is a den with dark green walls and a natural wood cathedral ceiling. Beyond that is a lipstick-red wet bar.

Then comes a breakfast room, followed by a kitchen and a living-and-dining room, all of which have huge arched windows with multiple panes and together fill out the entire rear portion of the unit. The living-and-dining room is hung with ornate, branched chandeliers and includes a gas-burning fireplace inset into a marble-clad chimney. The strikingly red kitchen has sleek gray cabinets with marble countertops, a Wolf range backed by salmon-colored mosaic tile, a Sub-Zero refrigerator and a pantry fitted out with audio equipment.

The four bedrooms and three bathrooms are off the den. The primary suite includes a carpeted bedroom with a Lindsey Adelman-style multi-armed pendant lamp and a marble-and-wood-paneled bathroom with a stand-alone tub and shower and a walk-in closet. The remaining three bedrooms share two bathrooms that are between them and have extensive closet space. A powder room is next to the wet bar. Finally, this level includes a sunroom that has been used, variously, for painting and exercise.

Originally employed as an artist’s studio, the main-floor guest apartment offers a flowing sequence of bedroom, kitchenette and living room, with high ceilings and polished-wood floors. The bathroom is finished in marble and has a vanity with double sinks.

Outdoor space: The unit’s private patio is bordered by a plaster wall and greenery, and ends in a splash pool. Off-street parking is available at the side of the building.

Taxes: $20,280, plus a $1,762 monthly homeowner fee

Contact: Sissy Sullivan Hansen, Re/Max Louisiana, 504-858-8140; remax-louisiana.com

Los Angeles | $2.55 Million

A midcentury-modern apartment complex with three units and a total of six bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, on a 5,515-square-foot lot

Craig Ellwood — a self-taught architectural designer who broke into the big leagues when he was commissioned to design three Case Study houses — completed this wood, steel and glass complex in Hollywood in 1953, for Roy Maypole, a television news broadcaster. Known as the Courtyard Apartments, the property was intended as multifamily housing from the start and took first prize in the collective housing category at the São Paulo Art Biennial architecture competition in 1954. In 2015, it was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

The complex is in central Hollywood, two short blocks north of Sunset Boulevard and the historic studio production lots that are still in operation there. The Hollywood Freeway is half a mile east, and the Metro station at Hollywood and Vine is about the same distance northwest. Two of the three units are currently rented.

Size: 3,360 square feet (combined)

Price per square foot: $759

Indoors: Mr. Ellwood designed the complex as a cube divided into four two-story units, each with two bedrooms, one bathroom and a private, walled courtyard opening to the living room through an entrance of sliding-glass doors. At some point, the back-to-back units A and B were combined, and in 2010, that double unit was renovated by its then-tenants, an architect couple, into a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom residence with a den, family room and rear garden.

The double unit retains many of Mr. Ellwood’s original design moves: concrete floors, wood ceilings, exposed brick, steel beams, floating treads leading to the staircases that connect the main and upper levels, and open living-room fireplaces with low, brick hearths and floating stainless-steel hoods.

But whereas the two single units (C and D) have the original pocket kitchens — with minimal counter space and suspended upper cabinets with black-and-white sliding laminate doors — the renovated kitchen in the double unit includes a long, U-shaped cabinet with a marble countertop. In the conjoined apartment, the kitchen has been removed from what is now the family room, but the fireplace remains. Upstairs, where the flooring is cork, the landing area has been turned into a lofted den and the bedrooms occupy either end, with two hall bathrooms and a closet with laundry facilities between them.

In the living room of unit C, the interior wood siding has been painted red, but the brick has been left in its natural state. In unit D, the brick is painted white, and the accent color is blue.

Outdoor space: The courtyards have cement paving, garden beds and integrated storage. Off-street parking is in a lot in front of the building with 10 spaces.

Taxes: $31,875 (estimated, not including reductions based on the property’s historic status)

Contact: Mike Deasy or Sara Clephane, Deasy Penner Podley, 310-275-8880; deasypennerpodley.com

Chicago | $2.6 Million

An 1893 rusticated brownstone townhouse with five bedrooms, four full bathrooms and two half bathrooms, on a 1,488-square-foot lot

This four-story single-family house is in one of the city’s most prestigious neighborhoods, half a block west of Lake Shore Drive and Oak Street Beach, three blocks north of Michigan Avenue, about a mile north of the Chicago River and the entrance to Navy Pier, and a mile and a half north of Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago. Boutiques, restaurants and bars are within spitting distance (so to speak) in all directions.

Size: 3,600 square feet

Price per square foot: $722

Indoors: The sellers bought the house, which occupies a 16-foot-wide lot, in 2012 and undertook a top-to-bottom renovation that was completed in 2015. Since then, they have continued to make improvements.

A vestibule opens to a front parlor with hardwood floors, an arched, street-facing window, a Murano glass chandelier and the first of five fireplaces (this one has gas logs). Beyond the staircase, where the entrance to the lower level used to be, the owners installed a wet bar with a marble floor and mirror-polished metallic subway tile on wall. (The back stairs now descend from the kitchen.)

Next comes the rear parlor, which is used as a dining room, with red Venetian-plaster walls, a pair of white corner cabinets, a Murano chandelier and a second gas fireplace. A butler’s pantry lies between this room and the kitchen; it is lined in black lacquer cabinetry and opens to a powder room with a black marble-topped vanity and silver botanical wallpaper. The eat-in kitchen was designed with custom white cabinets and various tones of dramatically veined marble, a pair of industrial-style pendant lamps hanging over a central island and top-notch appliances, including a six-burner (plus grill) Wolf range with an industrial hood, a double Sub-Zero refrigerator with two additional refrigerator drawers in the island and a pair of Fisher & Paykel dishwashers.

The primary suite takes up the entire second floor, beginning with a bedroom with taupe Venetian plaster walls, a decorative fireplace and a deep bay window with space for a seating area. A hallway lined with open storage shelves on one side and multiple closets on the other leads to a bathroom finished in marble and accented with red walls. The vanity has mirrored drawer fronts and a marble top with dual sinks. The extra-large shower includes a rain shower head. The primary suite also includes a sitting room (or possible bedroom) with a wood-burning fireplace, built-in bookcases, a niche with a coffee maker and refrigerator, and French doors opening to a very large rear terrace. An attached half bathroom has red walls and a console sink.

An additional pair of rooms bookends the third floor. The one in front, used as a sitting room, has a raised ceiling and includes a bay window and a fireplace. The one in back, a guest bedroom, has a door opening to a narrow balcony and an en suite bathroom with a walk-in marble-and-glass shower. There is a hall bathroom with a combined tub and shower between the two rooms.

The refinished basement includes a fifth bedroom, a full marble bathroom and a family room with wood floors and ceiling speakers (many rooms on the first three levels are wired for sound). The owners also installed a temperature-controlled wine storage unit and built out a laundry room with a chute.

Outdoor space: The large rear terrace on the second floor is outfitted with audio speakers and water. A spiral staircase leads down to a deck off the kitchen, with room for a grill. There is no garage.

Taxes: $36,570

Contact: Stephen Bognar, Baird & Warner, 312-342-6466; stephenbognar.bairdwarner.com

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