Looking In Sauganash? This 3-Bedroom Georgian Is Listed At $549,000: 6126 N. Kirkwood

This 3-bedroom Georgian-style single family home at 6126 N. Kirkwood in the Sauganash neighborhood of Forest Glen came on the market in August 2012.

Built in 1936 on an oversized 50×124 lot, it has a 1-car front facing garage with a brick paver driveway.

It doesn’t have much of its interior vintage character left but the house does have 2 wood burning fireplaces including one in the lower level finished basement, which also sports a second full bath.

The kitchen has been opened to the dining room and has maple cabinets, stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops.

The house also has the preferred layout with all 3 bedrooms located on the second floor.

It has central air.

Sauganash has been among the hardest hit neighborhoods in terms of price declines over the last few years.

Can a 1946 square foot, 3-bedroom house still command over $500,000 in this neighborhood?

Sheila Toomey at Coldwell Banker has the listing. See the pictures here.

6126 N. Kirkwood: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1946 square feet, 1 car garage

  • Sold in May 2000 for $315,000
  • Lis pendens foreclosure filed in June 2012
  • Originally listed in August 2012 for $549,000
  • Currently still listed at $549,000
  • Taxes of $8375
  • Central Air
  • 2 wood burning fireplaces
  • Bedroom #1: 17×13 (second floor)
  • Bedroom #2: 13×13 (second floor)
  • Bedroom #3: 14×13 (second floor)
  • Recreation room: 28×25 (lower level)

 

 

14 Responses to “Looking In Sauganash? This 3-Bedroom Georgian Is Listed At $549,000: 6126 N. Kirkwood”

  1. Shamalamadingdong on October 10th, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    I like it. Too bad I’m maxed out at 400k. What are the public school options again in Sauganash? Anything decent?

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  2. Sauganash Elementary is a very good.

    http://iirc.niu.edu/School.aspx?schoolid=150162990252434

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  3. school that is….

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  4. So this is Georgian Architecture? Really?
    Someone needs a trip to Colonial Williamsburg or a refresher course in Architecture 101…

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  5. What about high school

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  6. How in the HELL does this house call itself “Georgian”? There’s nothing Georgian about the corner windows, horizontal brick bands, or two-story glass brick stairwell window. It would make the architect sick at his stomach to see the way this place has been compromised.

    This house is a beautiful 1930s modern, a sort of Frank Lloyd Wright knockoff, that has been butchered with tasteless, inappropriate “traditional” embellishments and renovations over the year, destroying the architect’s original intent. The garage door doesn’t belong on this house, and the interior appointments and ornamentation are all wrong for this style.

    What a shame. Why is it that some people buy a richly ornamental, traditional vintage house or apartment, just to gut it out and make it light and bright and bare and spare and fill it up with pipe rails and primary colors and open ducts, while other folks crud up a lovely house with exquisite modern architecture with “traditional” gestunk?

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  7. I’m thinking early international style on the outside. Actually not even that early. Squarely in international or art moderne. Whatevs on the inside.

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  8. “I’m thinking early international style on the outside. Actually not even that early. Squarely in international or art moderne.”

    Things evolved to perfection, after many years of evolution. You had some that hated what Europe produced (HP types, bolsheviks, etc.) and they “had” to come up with something different. What they produced has not stood the test of time, like this place, the original gimmicky intent was rejected for something more evolved and time-tested and proven, hence the rejection and attempts to improve it and restore it to something higher than a gimmick. Face it, the owners probably bought it at a discount, if they could have afforded better, more perfected, architecture, they would have not bought this “moderne” thing-a-ma-jig.

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  9. That central window column is inferior, and therefore this will always trade at a discount to more perfected and evolved architecture. Inferior = discount. That applies to this house.

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  10. Meh. Supreme lack of curb appeal. I’d rather find a lower priced fixer in the area with more charming vintage details intact. Sad that Sauganash has had such declines. Good schools, charming homes, but not much to do in the area, and not great in terms of transit. Plus lots of city workers.

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  11. Yes this is what I would call a “Praire Fire” style of home

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  12. I am trying to figure out what the facade might have looked like before they put in the glass block – I wonder how hard it would be to take it back out.

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  13. What a sad house. I doubt that this house will sell for a premium as it has lost its soul. Someone who wants a traditional colonial will not buy this house, neither will someone who is looking for a modern or international style. The international style houses in generak seem to have the worst remodeling done.

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  14. This is a decent street in Sauganash. Easy walk to Saugansh Elementary or Queens. I haven’t been in the house but seems okay. Given the lack of inventory in the neighborhood I would be surprised if this dropped below 500k. There can always be some hidden issues with the older places so who knows. I didn’t think that house on Tonty in Wildwood would drop so much. Saug/Edgebrook/Wildwood are becoming more affordable and you’re seeing more families with young kids moving into the neighborhoods now. Not nearly as much to walk to but a solid choice if you have kids entering school and you have/want to live in the city.

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