The French Provincial Home in Beverly: 9221 S. Bell
If you’re looking for unique architecture, look no further than this French Provincial style home at 9221 S. Bell in Beverly.
Built in 1937, it has some of its original features including hardwood floors with mahogany inlay and crown molding.
The bathrooms have been updated. The master bathroom has Italian terrezo marble while the second full bath is carrera marble.
All 4 bedrooms are on the second floor and there is a finished basement.
The kitchen has white appliances and I can’t tell what kind of counter tops but it does not look like granite.
There are also french doors which lead to an elegant stone terrace.
The house is built on a larger than standard Chicago lot of 63×132, has central air and a 2 car garage.
Michael Shenfeld at Koenig & Strey has the listing. See the pictures here.
9221 S. Bell: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 car garage, no square footage listed
- Sold in May 1988 for $200,000
- Sold in September 1991 for $207,000
- Sold in April 2005 for $525,000
- Currently listed for $550,000
- Taxes of $7040
- Bedroom #1: 21×15
- Bedroom #2: 16×14
- Bedroom #3: 14×12
- Bedroom #4: 14×10
Great looking house. The awnings are impressive.
“The awnings are impressive”ly crooked.
I think you meant.
Wow. Two suburban homes in one day!
City-suburban?
I’ve been watching the Beverly area for a little while now and it looks like the market has picked up over the last few months, at least at the pricepoint just below this. Bungalows from $450 down seem to go rather quickly and I’ve noticed a few properties listed and under contract in less than a week, specifically one just south of 95th which looked like it might have been marginally underpriced.
If you search SFH in 60643 you’ll see large discrepancies in pricing of similar home as there’s still a few dreamers out there but things, at least from the outside, seem to look better. There’s a lot of $500k plus listings that aren’t going anywhere until they come down, considering there’s another handful of nearly identical replacements priced much cheaper, but this house seems to offer more than most of those properties.
If you’re looking for comps you’re going to want to look at Longwood west to Western from 9100 to 11100, then add Western to California from 103rd south. 60463 also includes “the wrong side of the tracks,” past the Metra that runs due east, which really does define the dividing line whether a good thing or not.
Nice place if you’re a white catholic wanting to raise a family and not pay through the nose for a pretty nice house with a lot of GRASS
“house with a lot of GRASS”
Lot of driveway, too.
Truly nice house, has everything a typical family needs. It’s large, beautiful, comfortable, in great condition. And Beverly seems like a closely-knit area where people get to know each other.
Only problem is that it’s further from downtown than many suburbs.
“Only problem is that it’s further from downtown than many suburbs.”
It’s the same distance as Evanston. And the same distance west gets you to, basically, 1st Avenue.
I agree with anon, same distance to downtown as Evanston…I’ll take Evanston, because everything around Beverly is a dump.
Agree with KMS. Evanston is contiguous with the north side of the city, has superior public transit, and is a great little city with all the urban amenities in and of itself. It’s easy to get to other north suburbs from there, and easier to get downtown than from Beverly.
But Beverly really is special, for its beautiful, high-quality houses and air of seclusion. Too bad you have to go through the worst nabes in the city to get there.
If I was married and having kids I would love to buy this house. Beverly is a great hood 20 minutes downtown via Metra. This is really nice.
“Too bad you have to go through the worst nabes in the city to get there.”
Do you mean “BLACKEST nabes in the city”? In segregated Chicago, there are certain groups that believe that Black neighborhoods mean “worst” neighborhoods. Too bad.