Mongo Home
- Neighborhood: Bucktown/Wicker Park
- 1753 N. Damen Ave.
- Chicago, IL 60647
- 773-486-6200
Learn what the name of this shop means and you'll instantly understand its premise. A mongo is New York slang for any thrown-to-the-curb item that's retrieved and repurposed. It seems infinitely appropriate, then, that the shop features everything from candy molds to a test tube rack reborn as a flower vase. If the eclecticity of it all looks slightly familar to salvage hounds, its because Mongo Home is the retail lovechild of two well-known salvage houses: American-focused Urban Remains in West Town and international Architectural Artifacts in Ravenswood. Plenty of pieces have their own story, from a set of lights from London's Playboy club to leaded glass French doors from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Getting There
- Parking:
- Street Parking Difficult
- Public Transportation:
- Blue Line Train: Damen. CTA Bus: 50-Damen
- Wheelchair Access:
- No
The Basics
- Hours:
- 11 a.m.-7 p.m. daily
- Store Type:
- Boutique
- Shopping Price:
- Expensive. Some accessories run $45-$100; most furniture runs $2000-$5000, but spans up to $18,000 for valuable architectural pieces
- Shopping Genre:
- Furniture and Furniture Coverings and Home and Garden
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"Mongo Home Equals Mongo Bucks"
By JuneCleaver from West Town, March 27, 2009
Way overpriced. Make your items affordable.
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