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David Schwimmer sells longtime Near West Side home for $965,000

Actor David Schwimmer on Friday sold his longtime, three-bedroom, 2,300-square-foot brick and concrete loft condominium on the fifth floor of a vintage Near West Side building, which was on the market for $965,000.

Schwimmer, 53, grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Northwestern University before embarking on an acting career. His signature role as Ross Geller on TV’s long-running sitcom “Friends” paid him a $1 million-an-episode salary before the show ended its run in 2004.

Schwimmer also co-founded Chicago’s nonprofit Lookingglass Theatre Company in 1988. Despite his Hollywood stardom, he has remained part of the Lookingglass ensemble, including adapting certain works for the stage at Lookingglass.

During production of “Friends,” Schwimmer also lived in Los Angeles, where his first home was a modest house in West Hollywood. He later owned a nine-bedroom, 11,336-square-foot mansion on South Hudson Avenue in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighborhood, which he bought in 2001 for $5.5 million and sold in 2012 for almost $8.9 million.

In recent years, however, Schwimmer’s principal residence has been in New York City, where through a limited liability company, he bought an 1852 town home in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood for $3.9 million in 2010 and then demolished it, replacing it with a newly constructed, five-level brick townhouse.

In Chicago, Schwimmer’s pied-a-terre was in a seven-story building that was converted to lofts in the late 1990s. Through a bank trust, he paid $425,000 in cash for the unit in 1998.

Schwimmer first listed the condo Sept. 19 for just under $1.15 million. The home, which is in the northwest corner of the building, has two baths; 11-foot ceilings; light gray hardwood floors throughout; hand-blown glass light fixtures; a balcony; and an all-white kitchen with hand-painted millwork, a 21-foot island and stainless steel appliances. The master suite has a seating area, an all-white master bath with double sinks and an oversized shower room, and a custom walk-in closet.

Listing agent Michael Rosenblum declined to comment on the listing. Public records do not yet identify the buyers.

Schwimmer’s New York City home recently has been in the news as an intruder in his backyard tossed a brick at the actor’s window in October, according to news reports.

Bob Goldsborough is a freelance writer.

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