GRAND BOULEVARD — A Bronzeville mansion with a storied history is for sale for the first time in decades, and local preservationists want to ensure it remains intact.
Owners of the Victorian mansion at 3736 S. Indiana Ave. put the 11,108-square-foot property on the market last week for $1.2 million, according to Crain’s Chicago. The eight-bedroom, 10-bathroom home, built in the late 19th century, is on a 10,000-square-foot lot and boasts a three-car garage.
But this isn’t your ordinary brownstone: It was once a hospital run by Black physician Ulysses Grant Dailey, who converted the home and the one next to it into a hospital and sanitarium in 1926. The Louisiana-born doctor operated the facility until 1932, when the Great Depression forced him to close, according to a 2021 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine article…