Tara Kolber grew up in Waukegan and said she always wanted to live in a historic home on the east side of Sheridan Road.

Steve Kolber, Tara’s husband, is an architect who designed the addition of a home originally built in 1916 on the east side of Sheridan. Three years ago, the owners called asking him to design a new home for them in Tennessee where they planned to move.

Seeing an opportunity to potentially acquire a dream home, Steve Kolber called his clients — Roy and Gera Czajkowski — to learn whether they intended to keep their Waukegan home as well. They planned to sell.

“We got together and it was all Tara and Gera,” Steve Kolber said. “Roy and I just listened. They didn’t talk about a price. They just talked about their love of old things and they made the deal. We took the room

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