2-Bedroom Gold Coast Vintage Duplex with Timeless Elegance Reduces $26,000: 50 W. Schiller in the Gold Coast
This 2-bedroom duplex in 50 W. Schiller in the Gold Coast came on the market in September 2025.
50 W. Schiller and 40 W. Schiller were designed by Andrew Rebori in 1923. The buildings are combined with a private courtyard with seating, gardens and a fountain (it’s the area behind the arched wall).
The listing describes the garden-like courtyard as having “secrecy and romance.”
There’s no parking or other amenities.
This is a top floor corner unit.
The listing says it has been “remastered” in 2021 with the finest modern finishes. They have replaced the plumbing, electrical, windows and insulation.
It has new wide plank white oak floors.
The first floor has the foyer, the living room and kitchen.
There’s a wood burning fireplace in the living room as well as a skylight in part of the living room, which is 2-story.
There’s no dining room.
The kitchen has room to eat-in, however. The kitchen is “state of the art” with white and gray/green? modern cabinets. It has luxury appliances of Wolf, Miele and Fisher & Paykel. There’s no island but it does have a table and banquette.
The second floor has both bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms, which the listing says are a “spa-level” design with heated floors.
The primary bedroom is en suite and has a walk-in-shower.
This unit also has 2 private outdoor spaces including a 5×4 porch off the primary bathroom with a spiral staircase to the lower level with a 9×13 patio.
It has some of the features buyers look for including washer/dryer in the unit. There’s no central air but there are wall units. There’s no parking but it’s available in the building next door.
This building is in the heart of the Gold Coast but also near the shops and restaurants of Old Town. It’s near buses on Clark.
This building is a co-op so the assessment includes the taxes.
Listed in September at $925,000, it has been reduced $26,000 to $899,000.
Will the reduction get it sold?
Andy Gersten and Lucas Baker at @Properties Christie’s have the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #2G: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1700 square feet, duplex up
- No prior sales price available due to it being a co-op
- Originally listed in September 2025 for $925,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $899,000
- Assessments of $2,338 a month (includes heat, taxes, cable, exterior maintenance, insurance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes are included in the assessments as it’s a co-op
- No central air, but wall units
- Washer/dryer in the unit (it doesn’t say where it is on the layout- perhaps in the cabinets in the kitchen?)
- No parking but available in the building next door
- Wood burning fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 15×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 13×10 (second floor)
- Living room: 22×14 (main floor)
- Foyer: 7×6 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 25×11 (main floor)
- Closet: 4×6 (second floor)
- Porch: 5×4 (second floor)
- Patio: 9×13 (main floor)
“No central air, but wall units”
Those sure look like ductless units to me rather than wall units.
Always loved this building – not sure I’d want to live there however.
The backdoor into the bathroom is always fun. KNow it’s not the original layout of these, but still.
nicely done, and a massive transformation is this is indeed the before:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/50-W-Schiller-St-60610/home/14114163
Nice unit, but I don’t see a cooling unit in the kitchen. Considering the heat from the fridge, stove, burners, and people, it may get very hot in the kitchen during a summer dinner party.
“I don’t see a cooling unit in the kitchen”
pic 14, right side, under the window?
I stand corrected. Excellent eye anon!
need more anon eyes
what is the shading around the skylight? is it just from the photo and lighting?
i love skylights / light wells etc but always have concerns about water infiltration.
Beautiful unit but it doesn’t look like it’s going to get much natural light. The majority of the windows appear to look right at the neighboring building, so no views and no light – why have windows?
Not sure if the lovely finishes and styling will make buyers overlook the of light/view issue at this price point.
if it is a west view, then i am guessing it is on the alley and facing the high rise where there is rental parking
Lord Anon
given this is not a high rise and the upgrades were not builder grade. what sayeth thou in terms of back of envelope remodel cost (plans, material & labor) not carry costs.
“what is the shading around the skylight?”
It is a rosette (or plaster/drywall over the skylight frame)–image quality/lighting makes it very hard to see that it is a consitent shape on the far side, too, but that is 100% what it is.
“no light – why have windows?”
Even in the “before” I linked to, with the glass block, there is a decent amount of “light”–obviously not an appealing view, but ‘view’ is far from the only reason to have windows.
Note that if you click on streetview in the Redfin listing, it drops you in the alley right under this unit–the only one that (used to) have a glass block ‘window’. Gives an idea how easily you could make friends over in Lowell House.
“back of envelope remodel cost”
Assuming substantial non-union-rate labor (maybe plumber and sparky at prevailing union rates), and believeing the listing’s assertion of “plumbing, electrical, windows, and insulation have been fully replaced”, it had to have been in the ballpark of $300k (even with cheaping out on the range).
I came here to say that the mini split system absolutely counts as central but see others beat me to it. If it has a heat pump they also have backup heating now….
“backup heating”
I think it’s part of primary heating. Listing sez “electric/radiant floor” and in the pre-reno state, there were rads than all appear removed–possibly run under the oak, but I’m a littel dubious.
300k
1700 sq ft
175 ish per sq ft
nice
very nice
= = =
2021 $250 + 300 ez 550. Gotta make money but iz 9 large a bit high?
I might have lowballed that a little, based on past criticism here. Could easily have been 50% more than that–claims all new plumbing and electric, and we can see that they switched from rads to splits, and moved walls, all of which is “full gut” territory, and a true full gut costs more psf than building from an empty lot.
Of course, I’ve been criticized for estimating both way too low and far too high.
Wild card here is what the co-op board requires w/r/t contractors–could be a limited list, and that could all mark up for the headache.
As to the last: Yeah, I think $9 is a bit frothy for a 2 bed, without a den of some sort, looking out on an alley. That said, something starting with a 7 would feel a bit like a deal, imo.
Reduced to 875.
I believe there are units that do not have the 2 floor open ceiling. I haven’t personally been in one of those and I do think the 2 floor open ceiling makes the units less cookie cutter if for sure more impractical.
on a quick lazy search i didn’t find those units but using the 2G floor plans I am guessing you get back another say 175 sq. feet of usable space.
so then you are up to 1875 sq. ft.
at 1875 sq. feet of less unique space, do you pick this apartment or go with this
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1414-N-Sandburg-Ter-60610/unit-1414/home/14114230
“I believe there are units that do not have the 2 floor open ceiling”
At least one in 40, mentioned in comments to a prior post:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/40-W-Schiller-St-60610/unit-2B/home/18965203
It is now A/I