3-Bedroom Vintage Duplex Remodeled in 2021: 1320 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast
This 3-bedroom duplex-up in 1320 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast came on the market in July 2022.
1320 N. State Parkway was designed by Robert S. De Goyler in 1927. It has 40 units and a brick and limestone façade. There’s no parking with the building.
It is a co-op building with a doorman, bike storage, a “new, state of the art” exercise room, a communal courtyard with tables, grills and a garden, a new residents lounge and individual mail delivery to each apartment. It also has on-site maintenance and large private storage.
The listing says this unit has been “completely redesigned and remodeled in 2021 by architect and designer Julie Fisher of FC Studios.”
It has a great room with 20-foot ceilings, historic leaded windows and a smokeless gas fireplace.
The unit has all new plumbing, wiring, mechanicals, and new windows.
The listing says the elevator accesses both floors.
The kitchen is a Christopher Peacock kitchen and butler’s pantry with white and wood cabinets, an island, a peninsula with seating and luxury Subzero, Cove and Wolf appliances which is open to the dining room.
It also has a full wet bar with wood cabinets and a peninsula that overlooks the family room with built-in bookshelves.
Each of the three bedrooms are en suite. The third bedroom is on the main floor with the primary and second bedroom upstairs.
The primary bathroom has a soaking tub, double vanity and walk-in shower.
The unit has the features buyers look for including space pac cooling and washer/dryer in the unit on the second floor.
As there is no parking with the building, the listing says it is available to rent across the street at 1325 N. State Parkway.
This building is in the heart of the Gold Coast, near the shops and restaurants of Rush Street.
Listed at $1.695 million, is this a steal for a fully renovated unit in this neighborhood?
Oliver Levy at Baird & Warner has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #10-11B: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2812 square feet, duplex-up
- It’s a co-op and I couldn’t find a prior sale. It has been on and off the market since 2016, however.
- Currently listed at $1.695 million
- Assessments of $5540 a month (includes heat, doorman, cable, exercise room, taxes, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes are included in assessment
- Space pac cooling
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Parking available to rent at 1325 N. State Parkway
- Gas fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 15×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 16×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×8 (main floor)
- Foyer: 17×7 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 18×12 (main floor)
- Laundry: 11×3 (second floor)
- Dining room: 13×9 (main floor)
- Family room: 19×15 (main floor)
- Living room: 29×14 (main floor)
Very taste specific, but very nice. They made the dining area too small (and too breakfast nooky and unserious for the only dining space, but that can be fixed). The family room with the tv is great, which makes the two – two – tvs in the living room all the more absurd. Would work for a one kid family.
The design is a complete mish-mash of styles. Kitchen layout sucks. The great room is a bit of a misnomer. Noting denotes class like a peloton on a stair landing. No powder room on the first floor. Dining area is a joke. They have 2 bars but this place would be terrible (relatively) to entertain in.
Perfect for a Very wealthy 1 kid + Nanny family, no sense of taste, orders take out and are anti social
This one popped up in my redfin feed last week, and I considered sending it to Sabrina – glad it’s being featured.
I love it! I’m a maximalist at heart (but too timid to go really crazy with it)
Agree with annony about the breakfast nook. I would use the great room as a living/dining space. (If I could afford a $1.6M home with a $5K/month assessment, which, for the record, I can’t)
Insert obligatory statement about the lack of outdoor space.
Unit next door (on 11) just sold:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1320-N-State-Pkwy-60610/unit-11-A/home/13079443
Basically the same HOA, implies basically the same SF, being a co-op and on the same floor.
This was last listed for 495,000 in March of 2018.
Also could have bought the A unit above this one:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1320-N-State-Pkwy-60610/unit-12-13A/home/177706954
Quite a lot larger, too.
And another big one–in need of a refresh–is also available now:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1320-N-State-Pkwy-60610/unit-12-13C/home/177289516
“This was last listed for 495,000 in March of 2018.”
Zillow (possibly wrong–co-ops are tough in Chicago) has this listing history:
9/24/2019 Listing removed $425,000
9/24/2019 Listed for sale $425,000
7/17/2019 Pending sale $425,000
7/15/2019 Price change $425,000
1/22/2019 Price change $489,000
10/12/2018 Price change $499,000
8/12/2018 Price change $595,000
5/7/2018 Price change $645,000
3/6/2018 Listed for sale $695,000
6/6/2017 Listing removed $795,000
5/15/2017 Price change $795,000
5/1/2017 Listed for sale $895,000
12/14/2016 Listing removed $998,000
12/1/2016 Price change $998,000
8/8/2016 Price change $1,095,000
6/14/2016 Price change $1,195,000
5/23/2016 Listed for sale $1,295,000
So someone spent a couple of bucks on updating the whole place.
my eyes hurt from this listing, hard to believe a “professional” interior decorator did up this place
although I’m sure some rich old lady who wears lots of silk floral patterns and colorful thick frame round glasses will scoop up this “deal”
“my eyes hurt from this listing, hard to believe a “professional” interior decorator did up this place”
I love it. It’s fantastic on so many levels. Even the “great room” feels cozy due to the color choices. The bathrooms are especially lovely. Look at that vanity in the master bathroom. Love it.
Love the built-ins over the bed in the “maid’s room” bedroom.
If you want to see what else FC Studio has done, check out their website.
https://www.fcstudioinc.com/projects
They’ve done a lot of restaurants. Love that eclectic style. Why not live in it too?
This is a massive renovation. Most would NOT want to undertake this but in this case you can just move in. It’s all done. The price seems cheap for the amount they spent on the renovation. You would not get these finishes in most homes under $2 million.
“So someone spent a couple of bucks on updating the whole place.”
A couple of bucks?
Listing says it was renovated into its current condition in 2021. That Christopher Peacock kitchen alone is worth the price. New windows. New wiring in a hundred year old home? Wow.
Basically, it’s brand new. Glad someone else did all the renovation because it’s tough in these old buildings.
“I love it! I’m a maximalist at heart (but too timid to go really crazy with it)”
I love it too Madeline. It’s beautiful but you have to like color, pattern, texture and built-ins. Lol.
“Agree with annony about the breakfast nook. I would use the great room as a living/dining space.”
You are right Madeline. I, too, would put a dining table in that big “great room.” There’s plenty of space to do it. And I would keep the breakfast nook for what it is, an everyday dining table.
I also like that they put some desks in that upstairs hallway. Good use of the space.
“No powder room on the first floor.”
It’s vintage. 100 years old. They didn’t “do” powder rooms back in the day.
The maid’s room has a full bathroom. That’s how these units were laid out. Kitchen always in the back near the maid’s room because the maid would have been working in the kitchen and all of it would have been “unseen.”
This unit has at least opened the kitchen to the rest of the space.
Vintage lovers know the quirks of vintage units and know they won’t get the layouts like new construction. If you want a half bath, One Chicago or Tribune Tower are both available.
“It’s vintage. 100 years old. They didn’t “do” powder rooms back in the day.
The maid’s room has a full bathroom. That’s how these units were laid out. Kitchen always in the back near the maid’s room because the maid would have been working in the kitchen and all of it would have been “unseen.”
This unit has at least opened the kitchen to the rest of the space.
Vintage lovers know the quirks of vintage units and know they won’t get the layouts like new construction. If you want a half bath, One Chicago or Tribune Tower are both available.”
In what world is this vintage after the unit was “completely redesigned and remodeled”? You mean there is no possible way to add a powder room on the first floor?
GTFO
you like to argue with no point for the sake of arguing
You must be a complete joy to be around…
Wow! JohnnyU wins the Complaint Cup with a total of eight (count ’em!) complaints in a single post! His post’s last sentence could arguably count as more than one gripe but the judges were conservative and awarded only one point for it. Nice work, JU!
Thanks, but I only count 7
the last sentence is a reflection of the current/future owner
“They didn’t “do” powder rooms back in the day.”
This one has a powder room:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1320-N-State-Pkwy-60610/unit-12-13A/home/177706954
and is over 50% bigger for less than 10% more. Yes, not as exciting as this one.
And this one:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1320-N-State-Pkwy-60610/unit-12-13C/home/177289516
at least opened up the maids bath so it’s not en suite.
Interested to follow this one and others like it on the market. Not sure how much demand there is for a place with such a high assessment.
I love it. If I could afford it I would consider it…bummer that there is no private outdoor space however.
“I love it. If I could afford it I would consider it…bummer that there is no private outdoor space however.”
Right? I would trade the outdoor space for it. Vintage lovers know they’re not getting the outdoor space unless they are buying the penthouse. Speaking of which, I have never seen one of those on the market in this building. You can see the terraces in the picture in this listing.
“Not sure how much demand there is for a place with such a high assessment.”
$2,000 of it is the taxes. But yes, the rest is high compared to most high rises.
As I’ve said many times, you pay the price for having a doorman and just a few units. This building also has on-site maintenance. All of those employees are expensive. You are paying for the exclusivity of it.
This is a beautiful building and the unit is quite beautiful, but the assessment per square foot , even if you consider that the prop taxes are included. And that’s why these units sell more slowly, and usually for substantially less, than the beautiful duplexed units at the 20 E Cedar building, which is a condominium with much lower assessments per square foot, and IMO, is a better building.
Additionally, while the unit looks great, the decor is very taste-specific and will cost the next owner quite a bit of money to remove, and redecorate to taste, especially if he or she wants to make changes to the kitchen or baths, which many people do automatically when they buy a place, no matter how good the place might look already.
Actually, many people DID add powder rooms in the 1920s, especially in high-end houses and apartments, and I’m rather surprised this place didn’t have one to begin with. But, then, given that I know of five 1920s vintage buildings further north that had large indoor pools built into them while being constructed, I’m surprised that more of the grandest old buildings in the city don’t have them.
Seller is now “MOTIVATED”, and asking $1.195m.
Noticed when looking at comps to the 1510 Dearborn duplex down.
Under contract after the $500k price cut.
This one finally closed! 1.120
Oooof
“This one finally closed! 1.120”
Thanks for the update David. It’s so hard to make money on these vintage units. The assessments are so high and are never going to go down. They will only go up.
I loved this unit though. Just beautiful.