The 4-Bedroom Vintage Queen Anne in East Lincoln Park: 2238 N. Geneva Terrace
This 4-bedroom Queen Anne at 2238 N. Geneva Terrace in East Lincoln Park came on the market in June 2012.
Built in 1880 on a 25×127 lot, it has a 2 car garage and space pac cooling.
It has some of its vintage features including stained glass windows.
There is an unfinished basement.
It has the preferred layout buyers look for with all four bedrooms and two baths on the second floor.
There is a half bath on the main level.
The listing says it is “well kept and ready for your updating.”
Originally listed at $1.55 million in June 2012, it was quickly reduced just days later to $1.39 million where it currently still sits.
Compared to other properties in the neighborhood, is this a deal?
Michael Zuker at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures here.
2238 N. Geneva Terrace: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, no square footage listed, 2.5 car garage
- It sold sometime before 1987
- Originally listed in June 2012 for $1.55 million
- Reduced within days
- Was listed in June 2012 to $1.39 million
- Currently still listed at $1.39 million
- Taxes of $17,626
- Space pac cooling
- Bedroom #1: 21×16 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 12×9 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 14×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 13×10 (second floor)
- Unfinished basement
for a place that hasn’t sold in 25+ years, the lack of dumpiness is surprising.
Ready for your updating? I should say so. Apparently they didn’t know about any furniture stores in Chicago other than CB2 and R&B. This place has a lot of potential once someone buys it for $1.25-$1.275.
Judging by the lighting in the place leads me to believe the electrical is pretty up to date.
Judging by the thermostat & baseboard heaters leads me to think that the furnace/boiler and spacepak will need an update.
yes the only vintage left is the staircase and the stained glass window (possibly the kitchen, hehehe)
but once the kitchen is updated, you rip out and burn those 80’s cabinets in the master bedroom, do something with that yard and transplant all the critters most likely living in it, do some tuckpointing it is a beautiful home.
but all of that is just cosmetic and this looks to be a functional home right off the bat and a good location at a good price.
*write this down it will sell by October for 1.3mil (give or take 100k)
Mike or anyone else, where are some nice upscale furniture stores in Chicago or surrounding suburbs?
Luminaire
Ligne Roset
Roche Bobois
Design within Reach
Stroll around just north of the merchandise mart up wells/franklin/orleans, a TON of places there… or if vintage is more your thing, go to Grand/damen, lots of cool places around there too for mid century modern furniture
“Mike or anyone else, where are some nice upscale furniture stores in Chicago or surrounding suburbs?”
Harlem furniture- google the locations they have a few
Wickes furniture- i think there is a few still open
Idea furniture- european style, on irving park & nagle
Domicile furniture- in Niles, has a 3 football fields of liquidated furniture
Jc Penny- many forget they sell furniture
if you really want to go fancy then there are a bunch of pottery barns all around. but really who wants to pay those inflated prices.
“write this down it will sell by October for 1.3mil (give or take 100k)”
Seems like it would have sold for $1.3 already if it was going to.
And what’s wrong with room and board? When I was looking for living room furniture when I lived on my own, I just bought the setup in the R&B display window. Really convenient. I know it’s not ligne rosset (though it seems not that distinguishable from DWR), but good enough for the $1.2 house.
“if you really want to go fancy then there are a bunch of pottery barns all around. but really who wants to pay those inflated prices.”
Awww, miumiu loved pottery barn.
Thoughts on what the effect the redevelopment (or lack thereof) of LP Hospital will have on this?
“Awww, miumiu loved pottery barn.”
yeah she was fancy like that
“Seems like it would have sold for $1.3 already if it was going to”
still bookmark it as it will happen by october
I think they did a really nice job going very modern with finishes in a very vintage place.
Avoiding the stainless steel in the kitch, and going with the modern cabs in woodgrain were really great choices. Also the runtals are a very good sign.
I am with Groove on this one– 4 bedrooms up, 2 car garage, “yard” and modernized vintage at this price will sell.