Looking For A Piece Of California In Edison Park? A 6-Bedroom Bungalow At 6803 N. Oriole
This 6-bedroom California bungalow at 6803 N. Oriole in Edison Park has been on the market since April 2012.
This is the first time I had seen a home in Chicago referenced as a “California bungalow” so I thought I’d better find out what the difference was.
Apparently, there is none. A bungalow is a bungalow. California bungalows typically refer to those bungalows built in California that were NOT built with brick.
This house is brick, however, but it has the style popular in many of the California bungalows with the front gables.
Built in 1922 on an oversized corner lot measuring 63×147, it has a 2-car garage and central air.
4 of the 6 bedrooms are on the second floor with the fifth on the main level and the sixth on the lower level.
There is also a family room on the main level as well as a recreation room in the basement.
It has a wood burning fireplace and most of the original trim is intact.
The kitchen has maple cabinets and stainless steel appliances.
Originally listed last spring for $669,000, it has been reduced $70,000.
Is this house a deal for the neighborhood?
Quentin Green at Lincoln Park Homes has the listing. See the pictures here.
6803 N. Oriole: 6 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 car garage, no square footage listed
- In the same family since 1987
- Originally listed in April 2012 for $669,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $599,000
- Taxes of $7440
- Central Air
- Woodburning fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 14×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 13×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 10×9 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 10×9 (second floor)
- Bedroom #5: 12×11 (main level)
- Bedroom #6: 11×8 (lower level)
- Recreation room: 14×13 (lower level)
- Family room: 12×10 (main level)
I love this place!
600k to live in edison park? Tough sell, but nice enough home (although not “new”) near the metra and such, might sell, I dunno, whats the high school like in this area?
I love bungalows, and this is a nice one, but it has an awful lot of smallish rooms. Feels kind of choppy, although it’s tough to tell just from the pix – bungalows usually do live very well.
I like this neighborhood a lot, but I think this has got to be one of the most expensive houses around there. The woodwork is beautiful and the house looks very well cared for.
high school choices: Taft for public, Res for girls, or Notre Dame (both catholic) St Pats also an option but a little farther
Loyola is another, farther option.
“high school choices: Taft for public, Res for girls, or Notre Dame (both catholic) St Pats also an option but a little farther”
This isn’t in the Northside College Prep district?
Great curb appeal and backyard!
The modern kitchen seems a bit out of place as do the modern sink and toilet in the bathroom. And OMG, that dining room chandelier looks like a weapon! Overall I like it though, very charming.
I can’t see this going for over $500K. This isn’t in Park Ridge. However, it is close to the metra and the neighborhood is safe. Is that really a full 2 car garage? What’s up with that little pond they have too?
I think the elementary school is much better than the regular public HS (Taft) for the area. I’m sure those private schools aren’t cheap in terms of total cost per year including tuition and “recommended” fundraising.
Taxes seem a little low – maybe they reflect the senior exemption or the house really isn’t assessed at anywhere near the listing price.
“Taxes seem a little low – maybe they reflect the senior exemption or the house really isn’t assessed at anywhere near the listing price.”
Most likely the latter. Long term owners have been pretty consistently underassessed, too.
2012 first pass has their AV down slightly.
Bedrooms are on the small side, but loads of curb appeal. Best curb appeal I’ve seen of any property on CC in a long time.
Nice home on a good safe block. Could go up in value over time if Rhambo gets more aggressive about residency taxes.
Classy interior, too. I like everything about this property, including the price. What’s Edison Park like? Seems very dull to me, and sometimes I wonder why someone would choose that neighborhood over nearby Park Ridge unless he/she was a city employee.
For now Edison park taxes are lower. PR has better schools. Boring dull hood but plenty of cops firemen etc. I grew up there and have many friends still in the area.
Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Chicago brick bungalows
Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Shoulders
Or just another lost angel…City of Boulders
City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woo, c’mon
Chi-town Woman, Chi-town Woman
Chi-town Woman Sunday afternoon
Chi-town Woman Sunday afternoon
Chi-town Woman Sunday afternoon
Drive thru your suburbs
Into your blues, into your blues, yeah
Into your blue-blue Blues
Into your blues, ohh, yeah
The neighborhood CPS elem (Ebinger) is quite good, but I wouldn’t send my kid to Taft HS these days. Which pains me to say since I graduated from Taft (long ago).
“This isn’t in the Northside College Prep district?”
Northside does not have a district, it is selective enrollment only.
Its a running joke here nonya
“Northside does not have a district, it is selective enrollment only.”
But realtors list it (or Payton or others**) as the school for all sorts of properties. Are you actually suggesting that they either (1) don’t have a f’ing clue what they are doing or (2) are *intentionally* lying?
I’m insulted on their behalf!
**Including the regular idiocy here of “Why not just go to Lane” as if it’s an attendance area school.
Now that I live in Niles, I’m qualified to speak about both PR and EP. First of all, there is a difference between PR and EP but it’s not as great as the difference between PR and des plaines. Secondly, PR is an entire suburb while EP is just a neighborhood. The south eastern and eastern side of park ridge, south of touhy at least, is some similar to EP, wherein the housing stock is older, more dense, alleys, street parking; but head north of touhy on the east side and north of oakton the west and it becomes far more suburban, with larger mcmansions, 1970-1980s or newer housing stock (as opposed to pre-war or post-war 1940’s and 1950’s stuff); larger lots, and the town goes off teh ‘grid’ so to speak. Sibley in Park RIdge is really just Howard street, granville, devon, NW Highway are the same. that being said, the part of PR that borders edison park is the most similar, with higher density housing on 50′ lots, older, and can walk to EP and the bars and restaurants on that small strip of NW highway. I’ll save the amazingness of Niles for a different thread
@anon – exactly. Lane, Young, Payton, Northside, Jones, etc, all Selective Enrollment. The only difference in where you live is the socioeconomic tiers. ie, move to a lower income census tract, you can (generally) get in with a lower score.
What’s driving the high prices in EP? I was surprised at what is for sale and what they cost. Honestly, it may make sense to do a tear down even.
We ran across a California bungalow in our house-hunt a few years ago. Nice house, close to Smoque BBQ, too far from where I wanted to live. I found a link to pics to an earlier listing. It looked slightly different when we saw it.
http://tours.vht.com/realestateforsale/PhotoGallery/1190990/0/Front-View-1_3723-N-Pulaski-Rd-Chicago-Illinois_60641.aspx