4-Bedroom Victorian in Lakeview Has a Rare 3-Car Garage: 3545 N. Marshfield
This 4-bedroom Victorian single family house at 3545 N. Marshfield in Lakeview has been on the market since November 2011.
In that time, it has been reduced $110,900.
At 2400 square feet, the house is on an oversized 37.5×125 lot.
Because of the larger lot, it has a rare 3-car garage.
3 of the 4 bedrooms are on the second floor with 1 bath. The fourth bedroom is in the lower level along with a family room and a full bath.
The kitchen has maple cabinets, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.
The house has central air.
The listing says it is in the Hamilton school district.
The house is listed $21,000 under the 2004 purchase price.
Is this a deal for the neighborhood?
Laura Topp at Koenig & Strey Real Living has the listing. See the pictures here.
3545 N. Marshfield: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2400 square feet, 3 car garage
- Sold in October 1990 for $211,000
- Sold in July 1992 for $252,500
- Sold in December 2004 for $710,000
- Originally listed in November 2011 for $799,900
- Reduced several times
- Currently listed at $689,000
- Taxes of $9689
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 15×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 13×11 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 10×9 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 10×8 (lower level)
- Family room: 21×9 (lower level)
gettting a little closer to reality….given that you’d need to add a bath upstairs somehow and likely have to dig out the basement as the height looks low, 650k might be okay for this.
I like it, how much does it cost to down out a basement?
count on 50k…Done it twice
“how much does it cost to down out a basement?”
“count on 50k”
Concur. Could end up quite a bit dearer, depending on how far down and what the foundation footings are like.
Getting closer to reality – I agree.
For the neighborhood, this is an OK price, but not a deal. There’s been a few 4BR SFHs on the better side of Ashland sell in the $600s but they didn’t have this lot.
The block is very nice – lots of a families with young kids. Sony/FOX had the block south of here closed two weeks ago to film a movie. Hamilton and its playground are almost across the street. They are supposedly putting in a turf lawn like at Hawthorne.
I’d rather spend a half million here than that stupid 2/2 in North Cabrini from yesterday
“The block is very nice – lots of a families with young kids. Sony/FOX had the block south of here closed two weeks ago to film a movie.”
Yeah, new pilot for the fall called Dirty Medicine…been filming quite a bit around town.
I’d actually offer that this *is* the better side of Ashland (looking at just a one block radius on each side) due to proximity to not having to cross it to get to the Paulina stop, the YMCA, Dinkels, Whole Foods, etc. The east side of Ashland blows right here, just nothing but crap.
That said, and although I think this is a very nice block (I’m on it 5 days a week due to Hamilton), for the money this is too close to Addison for my taste, you’d be hamstrung by Cubs traffic and thus that garage isn’t the deal you’d think. Still, it’s a nice wide lot, a nice house, nice area – as long as you’re planning on living there for a while it seems reasonable.
Nice house, good location and the price seems appropriate. Only concern is need for a second bath upstairs.
We have a low ceiling in our basement and have learned to live with it. However, our basement is mainly used as a kids playroom/exercise room. We don’t spend much time there. If it were our only family room, I’d consider trying to dig down.
Wouldn’t spend nearly $700,000 and then sit in basement to watch TV. Next buyer can dig down and spend big bucks, but it doesn’t change subpar location of family room. Finishes aren’t as nice as prior house listing,
Don’t like close adjacency of frame-sided house to the north; would be deal killer for us no matter how nice the house due to privacy issues, both visual and sound, plus an undesired fire hazard. Noted from personal experience with all three.
Surprisingly nicer inside that I would have guessed based on the outside pic. That pale blue siding ust loos cheap to me. But very nice house I like the area a lot. I think this should go relatively quickly, especially if they keep dropping the price.
Both this place and the Lincoln Sq SFH seem pretty decent for the price. But given the Cubs traffic, basement situation, and the fact that Lincoln Sq just seems more family oriented (based on the two or so times I’ve been there), I guess I’d opt for the Lincoln Sq place.
“Wouldn’t spend nearly $700,000 and then sit in basement to watch TV.”
I wouldn’t spend $770k to have a tv in my “front room”.
“that garage isn’t the deal you’d think”
Only if you heading north or NE. Otherwise just drive out on to Cornelia, then go to Ashland or Lincoln. And even east bound Cubs traffic is not often too terrible, as people trickle in. It’s the aftergame that’s really awful.
“I wouldn’t spend $770k to have a tv in my “front room”.”
Or, you know, even $700k.
“I wouldn’t spend $770k to have a tv in my “front room”.”
and what, have a separate ‘living room’? who ‘lives’ in their living room these days anyways? Living rooms and formal dining rooms are outdated concepts not meant for today’s modern lifestyle.
I do agree that $700k to watch tv in teh basment sucks.
on a different topic, anyone noitice that Rahm is all gung-ho for a 4th airport runway? that’ll kill property values for 2 or 3 full miles west of the airport between the highway and touhy as there will be 3 parallel runways accepting 2000 arrivals a day. ouch! Tehre goes my plan to move to park ridge, edison park norwood park or wildwood! Where else can I live???
2 or 3 miles EAST (not west) of the airport, sorry for the typo
I think Wildwood and Edison Park are fine HD. Park Ridge is too close though.
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65 db is like a lawnmower in your ear, and 65 is just an AVERAGE, close flights are like 130 or more. So even farther west into wildwood, edison park will still experience 65 db on a regular basis but just not an AVERAGE of 65…
” close flights are like 130 or more”
If a landing jet is pushing 130 dB at your house, you won’t have to worry about the noise for long–only until the fireball engulfs your house.
HD, looking at your map, Edison and Wildwood aren’t in the area.
” Tehre goes my plan to move to park ridge, edison park norwood park or wildwood! Where else can I live???”
Oriole Park or even the part of Niles that’s in the Maine school district.
Speak for yourself, Homedelete! I “live” in my “living room” and so do my friends. OTOH nobody in my social circle mistakes the kitchen for the social-gathering space.
“Where else can I live???”
how about Morgan Park?
I’d agree it’s not really difficult to deal with Cubs games, but you can’t ignore the impact it either. The aftergame is definitely worse, but east bound Cubs traffic FUBARs Addison considerably, and Cornelia doesn’t get a light at Ashland or Lincoln, so depending where you need to go (and more importantly, when) it’s still kind of being boxed in. I should probably have specified I was referring largely to weekends, during the week traffic is pretty bad everywhere, this location isn’t noticeably worse than many. I’ve been pretty pleasantly surprised how easy it is go from the South Loop to Hamilton to Avondale, even after picking up my kid it’s less than an hour. Gas and wear-and-tear are different issues of course.
I say all this as one of the benefits of this location would be the walkability factor is pretty excellent. In terms of driving, everywhere east of Western is increasingly a massive hassle.
“Only if you heading north or NE. Otherwise just drive out on to Cornelia, then go to Ashland or Lincoln. And even east bound Cubs traffic is not often too terrible, as people trickle in. It’s the aftergame that’s really awful.”
I went to look at the house a couple of weeks ago. It’s charming and big, but needs work. The main level is good (there is a back room off the kitchen you can put a tv), but the upstairs only has one bathroom in the hallway for three bedrooms. The closet space is almost non-exisitent. I was thinking I would have to turn the sitting space in the master into a walk-in closet. One of the bedrooms doesn’t have a closet. The basement is fine. You could live with in for a while. The duct work is low and huge, but wouldn’t have to be the first thing you change (that would be the upstairs/bath/closet situation). Also, your back porch overlooks a parking lot and Ashland, which is not ideal.
“OTOH nobody in my social circle mistakes the kitchen for the social-gathering space.”
That’s funny, because many people I know WANT their kitchen to be the social gathering space, around an island, with stools, and a TV etc.
“but the upstairs only has one bathroom in the hallway for three bedrooms. ”
OMG THE HORROR, THE HORROR!!! ONLY ONE BATHROOM FOR THREE BEDROOMS!!!
“That’s funny, because many people I know WANT their kitchen to be the social gathering space, around an island, with stools, and a TV etc.”
Ze loves chillin in the kitchen with people… cooking is great entertainment.,..
916 w.cullom is a beautiful SFH in uptown that has been drastically marked down. Still too high 749k?
Just curious
So let me see if I got this straight. If a house doesn’t have a bathroom upstairs, dealbreaker. Now “the upstairs only has one bathroom in the hallway for three bedrooms.” is also a problem. Finally, if you are Jenny the # of bathrooms must exceed the number of residents or potential guests.
This is a 19 th century, maybe early 20th century Victorian, and people still complain there is only one bathroom upstairs. What’s next, gonna complain there is no attached garage? The horrors of plaster? Avoid all these problems and buy a brand new construction or move to the 1970’s suburbs.
At this price point, Yes
“So let me see if I got this straight. If a house doesn’t have a bathroom upstairs, dealbreaker. Now “the upstairs only has one bathroom in the hallway for three bedrooms.” is also a problem. Finally, if you are Jenny the # of bathrooms must exceed the number of residents or potential guests.
Any house with more than three “real” bedrooms and fewer than 2.5 bathrooms should not carry a “luxury” price tag. This should be $450 max.
Agree w/Local Lassie: at the price-point, master bedroom needs dedicated bathroom and family room needs to be elsewhere than basement. A buyer may purchase this at $600,000, but within a month of moving in will be regretting the purchase after confirming costs for potential renovation.
What really messes up the traffic in this area during the weekend is when the Cubs play at home, and the baseball traffic blends with the parishioners going to/from St. Andy’s for the late-afternoon Mass.
Not that the church would have it any other way; you can see a LOT of Cubs-gear-clad folks in the pews after a game for whatever reason (allelulias or lamentations).
i live just south of addison on the other side of Ashland…the fears of Addison traffic are greatly overblown here. Believe it or not, there ARE other streets to take during cubs games. the idiots driving back to the suburbs don’t know that, but luckily we do.
Saw this house when it was first listed. Guy who owns it has a rhino fetish, they are everywhere. You can see some in the pictures. Also the walls in the kitchen are covered in a textured wallpaper, strangest thing I’ve ever seen. No backsplash with tile, just odd wallpaper. Also terrible closet space, small outdated bathrooms, low ceiling in basement. Just not worth 650.