Vacation at Home in this Tudor Mansion with a Pool and Sauna: 6087 N. Kirkwood in Sauganash
This 5-bedroom Tudor English manor at 6087 N. Kirkwood in Sauganash came on the market in March 2016.
Built in 1937, it has many of its vintage features intact including cove moldings, custom millwork, historical lead glass windows, arched doorways and two wood burning stone fireplaces.
It’s on an oversized corner lot measuring 72×125 which allows for a rare 4-car heated/cooled garage.
There’s an outdoor heated in-ground swimming pool with an outdoor kitchen, a gazebo/cabana and an outdoor stone fireplace.
It has a gourmet kitchen with a wine refrigerator.
The listing says the house is over 6,000 square feet.
Four out of the five bedrooms are on the second floor including the master suite.
There are also plenty of family spaces including a playroom on the third floor and a family room and recreation room in the finished basement.
If you’re not using the pool, or it’s winter, you can always work out in the basement exercise room and hang out in the sauna.
Does this house have it all?
Philip Barone at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures here.
6087 N. Kirkwood: 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, over 6,000 square feet, 4 car heated garage
- Sold in April 1993 for $575,000
- Sold in November 2005 for $925,000
- Originally listed in March 2016 for $1.799 million
- Currently still listed at $1.799 million
- Taxes of $14,496
- Central Air
- Oversized lot of 75×125
- 2 wood burning fireplaces
- Outdoor heated pool
- Outdoor kitchen
- Sauna
- Bedroom #1: 19×20 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 19×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 15×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 15×11 (second floor)
- Bedroom #5: 15×14 (third floor)
- Exercise room: 14×10 (basement)
- Family room: 15×16 (basement)
- Recreation room: 11×31 (basement)
- Playroom: 26×21 (third floor)
This is amazing.
Wish there were close-ups of the faces in the Ivy!
Are their two toilets in that bathroom (pic 18)?
Icarus, that’s a bidet. More common in other countries, but the rich tend to have them here stateside. #keepthatbumclean
Eeesh! Looks like the castles I just saw in Romania.
This home would fit in very well on the North Shore. I wonder what the market is for a North Shore home in this location. It’s a good location, but I have to think that this home is the priciest house on the block.
What a beautiful property. The taxes sure are low compared to closer to downtown.
I never knew I was a fan of middle renaissance architecture and decor until I met this house. Unfortunately, like the station in life of most middle renaissance citizens, I am a poor peasant, and cannot afford such a stately homes.
Not quite sure what owners were doing with the kitchen though. Looks nice but totally out of place for a castle.
those floors wow
2015 taxes = 15,669.65.
They appealed their assessment, which is *still* less than half of what they are asking.
Sauganash is going to have to find its own Vlad the Impaler on its eastern front. The Muslims/Hindus are pushing west down Peterson and Devon. It’s probably inevitable that Sauganash will eventually have white flight.
“Are their two toilets in that bathroom (pic 18)?”
That’s a bidet bro. It’s for rinsing your rear after doing #2.
My parents had one in their master bath and as a kid I’d go in there with friends and turn it on full pressure – the water would hit the ceiling. Can’t admit I’ve used it as an adult though.
“Sauganash is going to have to find its own Vlad the Impaler on its eastern front. The Muslims/Hindus are pushing west down Peterson and Devon. It’s probably inevitable that Sauganash will eventually have white flight ”
Vlad the impaler eh? A bit on the nose isn’t it.
But dude – just imagine how easy it would be to get a good chicken tikka masala. Totally worth it.
“Sauganash is going to have to find its own Vlad the Impaler on its eastern front. The Muslims/Hindus are pushing west down Peterson and Devon. It’s probably inevitable that Sauganash will eventually have white flight.”
That’s an exaggeration. These largely separate and diverse communities are leaving the city and moving NW to Barrington and Hoffman Estates and Des Plaines. Not likely this demographic will move in large numbers into a small, exclusive, and expensive neighborhood of wealth, city workers and devout catholics. Do you really think that in 20 years queen of all saints will have minarets surrounding it after it’s been repurposed? I don’t think so.
This thread sounds incredibly bigoted. YUK
Oh shut up Kathy. Discussion of demographic trends of neighborhoods (especially in a hyper-segregated city like Chicago) and a joke in poor taste about Vlad the Impaler (playing off the Romanian Castle joke earlier in the thread) isn’t racist or bigoted. If the mere mention of race offends you little snowflakes, too bad for you.
And Kathy what I assume you think ‘sounds incredibly bigoted’ i.e. the minirets surrounding the queen of all saints basilica – was a reference to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul: a major christain church converted to a mosque after Constantinople fell in 1453 and the ‘friendly liberators’ incorporated minirets into the structure. Look it up or click the wikipedia link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia
Did they not teach you this stuff in high school? Or were you too preoccupied reading the literary works of the oppressed diaspora to even understand what is considered to be a major historical reference? Jeez
I hate this house. It’s so fricking busy. The floors, the ceilings, the columns, the murals, oh god help me. I can’t imagine a busy day putting thugs in jail as a judge or prosecutor, then sitting on the Kennedy for an hour, and coming home to this. A little minalism please.
Very heavy-handed design. The exterior is nice but the interior is too much to take. In one of the bathrooms, super busy wall tile and then, oddly, some ornate wooden vanity. Uh, no. Then the twisted columns plus wildly busy floor and just crown molding mania. I’m sure people like the pool and secluded feel of the backyard but neighbors from the upper level across the way can see right into the backyard, so not really “secluded”. There must be better properties at that price.
Minimalism is the bane of the last 60 plus years or so. Cheap utilitarianism shoddily masquerading as “good clean design principles” more often than not. Of course there are exceptions, but not many IMO.
I love utilitarian furniture
why have more crap than you actually “need”?
“was a reference to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul: a major christain church converted to a mosque after Constantinople fell in 1453 and the ‘friendly liberators’ incorporated minirets into the structure. Look it up or click the wikipedia link below:”
In her defense HD, why would we think you were talking about the Hagia Sophia? There were thousands more churches converted to mosques all over Europe (especially in Spain- which was the capital of the Islamic empire at one point) well before 1453. The Spanish churches are even more interesting because they were churches, converted to mosques and now they’re churches again.
Very well done. Proper rugs too!
“In her defense HD, why would we think you were talking about the Hagia Sophia? There were thousands more churches converted to mosques all over Europe (especially in Spain- which was the capital of the Islamic empire at one point) well before 1453. The Spanish churches are even more interesting because they were churches, converted to mosques and now they’re churches again.”
Because the Hagia Sophia was the biggest and baddest conversion of them all.
homedelete, I didn’t give a s#$t about your reference to churches/mosques. The change in a neighborhood is not inevitable, it is a conscious decision made by people who are scared of someone who does not look like them or is different in some way. It is not the presence of different neighbors that devalues an area, it is the reaction to their presence that does that. Your presumptive comment about my education exposes you for the a-hole you are. You know nothing about me and I don’t need you to lecture me about religion.
“scared of someone who does not look like them or is different in some way. ”
“The change in a neighborhood is not inevitable”
Kathy, if you study Chicago’s history you will see that a change in the neighborhood is more likely to be inevitable than the other way around.
For example, some time back here on CC, there was an irascible poster by the name of Joe Zekas and he recalled his efforts to stop the “flight” from the Lawndale neighborhood. Lawndale was a Russian Jewish area and when blacks started moving in the Jews were “scared of someone who does not look like them or is different in some way. ” THEY ALL FLED from the blacks. Period. End of story, today there are no Russian Jews left there.
It sure seems inevitable sometimes.
By the way, there is an excellent book written by Gus Russo called “Supermob” which traces the historical background of many Russian Jewish crime figures from Lawndale. Check it out. Highly recommended.
no kathy, demographics change neighborhoods. end of story. not just race, but income, age and education levels.
Kathy: I’ve excerpted Wikipedia below re the continual demographic change that’s taken place in Lawndale over 150 years. Historically as homeowners became more affluent they elected to sell aging homes in dense areas & move to attractively priced new homes. Then suburbs become more accessible via new highways, car ownership & cheap gas. In the ’50s and ’60s blockbusting real estate brokers accelerated the natural trend by employing Trumpian tactics to stampede home owners into selling quickly & cheaply before their threatened glut of sellers would make remaining homes worth nearly nothing. I was born in Woodlawn where over less than 10 years of the ’50s & early ’60’s I became one of the last specks of salt. Enforcement of law agst blockbusting stopped white flight & declines in home values in Oak Pk & Beverly since late ’60’s.
“…in 1869, the eastern section of North Lawndale to Pulaski Road was annexed to Chicago … Thereafter, streets were platted and drainage ditches were installed between Western .. and Pulaski Road … The name “Lawndale” was supplied by … a real estate firm which subdivided the area in 1870. In 1871.. the McCormick Reaper Company (later International Harvester) constructed …a new large plant in the South Lawndale neighborhood. As a result, many plant workers moved to eastern North Lawndale..
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By 1890 North Lawndale was beginning to be heavily populated by Bohemian immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The section most populated by the Czechs was the area from Crawford (Pulaski) west, and from 12th St. (Roosevelt Rd.) to 16th St… Czech institutions popped up… beginning in 1890 with the Slovanska Lipa/Sokol Tabor (Czech fraternal & gymnastic organization) at 13th & Karlov.
In 1892 the Bohemian Catholic Church, Our Lady of Lourdes, was established at the corner of 15th & Keeler….The Merigold neighborhood was also known as Novy Tabor (New Camp) by the Czech immigrants who settled there. The premier Czech institution, established in 1912, was the Ceska Beseda (Bohemian Club) at 3659 W. Douglas Blvd. This club was attended by Chicago’s Czech elite, as well as the visiting Czech elite of the rest of the United States and Czechoslovakia.
It was the place for its members to celebrate and enjoy literature, drama, and music by the most renowned and talented Czech artists. The ethnic Bohemians spread throughout the rest of the North Lawndale neighborhood; they were the original owners of many of the beautiful greystone buildings that graced the picturesque streets of the neighborhood. Many of the elite members of the Bohemian community resided in the vicinity of the 1800 and 1900 blocks of South Millard Avenue.
These wealthy men, as well as the rest of the Czech residents of North Lawndale, were strongly committed to their neighborhood, and were involved in civic affairs. Anton Dvo?ák Public Elementary School at 3615 W. 16th St. was named after the revered 19th-century Czech composer. Several members of the North Lawndale Czech community occupied positions in city as well as county government. In the post-World War I years, the Czechs began leaving the neighborhood for newer housing in the western suburbs of Cicero, Berwyn, Riverside, and Brookfield.
By the 1920s many of the Czechs were gone, and Jews became the majority ethnic group of the neighborhood after having left the crowded confines of the Maxwell Street ghetto. North Lawndale later became known as being the largest Jewish settlement in the City of Chicago, with 25% of the city’s Jewish population.[3]
From about 1918 to 1955, Jews, overwhelmingly of Russian and Eastern European origin, dominated the neighborhood, starting in North Lawndale and moving northward as they became more prosperous. In the 1950s, blacks migrated into the area from the South Side and from southern states. Unscrupulous real-estate dealers all but evacuated the white population by using blockbusting and scare tactics related to the change in ethnicity. In a span of about ten years, the white population of North Lawndale dropped from 99% to less than 9%, but the number of total residents increased…”