Rare 4-Bedroom Spanish SFH in Old Town with a 2-Car Garage: 1821 N. Lincoln Park West
This 4-bedroom Spanish-style single family home at 1821 N. Lincoln Park West in Old Town came on the market in November 2020.
Built in 1895, it’s on a larger than average Chicago lot measuring 25×151.5.
It has a 2-car garage.
The house is one of just two Spanish-style homes in the Old Town neighborhood. The second one is its twin next door.
The listing says it has been “Architect renovated.”
The house has 11-foot ceilings, crown moldings and skylights.
The kitchen has black custom cabinets and luxury appliances by Subzero, Miele and Viking.
There is a banquette eating area off the kitchen as well as a den.
The second floor has 3 of the bedrooms including the primary bedroom, which is en suite.
There’s also an office on the second floor.
The fourth bedroom is in the lower level along with a family room, a full bath and the laundry room.
The listing says that the lower level has private outside access which would make it perfect as a suite for aging parents or a nanny.
There’s a deck on the second floor as well as a backyard patio which the listing says was designed by renowned landscape architect Maria S. Smithburg.
The house has space pak cooling.
It’s located on one of the most popular streets in Old Town, near Lincoln Park and the shops and restaurants on Wells Street.
Originally listed in November 2020 at $2.5 million, it went under contract within the first few days but was then re-listed in December.
It was recently reduced $125,000 to $2.375 million.
Buyers love move-in ready homes.
Will the price reduction get the sale done quickly?
Linda Mayer at Baird & Warner has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
1821 N. Lincoln Park West: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3800 square feet, 2 car garage
- Sold in November 1999 for $500,000
- Sold in August 2005 for $1.96 million
- Originally listed in November 2020 for $2.5 million
- Under contract within days
- Re-listed in December 2020 at $2.5 million
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $2.375 million
- Taxes of $29,311
- 2-car garage
- Space-pak cooling
- 1 fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 19×17 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 9×15 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 11×13 (lower level)
- Living room: 12×34 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 12×9 (main floor)
- Eating area: 12×7 (main floor)
- Den: 13×15 (main floor)
- Library: 7×12 (main floor)
- Office: 12×8 (second floor)
- Family room: 12×34 (lower level)
- Laundry room: 10×8 (lower level)
- Mud room: 7×18 (lower level)
- Deck: 8×11 (second level)
- Terrace: 21×40
Love me some vintage spanish. As usual, remodeled for resale to some random. No idea what the guy had to work with but ugh.
I’m not calling any room 8’ wide a bedroom. The kid that gets stuck there def isn’t mom & dads favorite.
Outdoor space is nice, but nothing to brag about. There’s still plants in plastic pots
Granted the owners bought near peak, but with the renovation costs + realator fees, this has been a loser financially and not insignificantly.
Is that the sign of a HAWT ™ market?
“INCREDIBLE ATTENTION TO DETAIL: 12-ZONE ELECTRIC HEAT”
Hmmm.
“No idea what the guy had to work with”
Reasonably likely it was 3 rentals, as the neighbor on the wood fence side appears to still be.
“I’m not calling any room 8’ wide a bedroom.”
Only room in the house photo’d completely empty–says a lot.
House is a good one for family with one kid, and regular house guests (with up to one kid themselves). Not a house for 2 or 3 kids–but so what?
Feel like the kitchen is sized for people who do not like to cook. Otherwise like the main floor a lot, outdoor space very nice, lower floor functional. It’s just hard to get the bed/bath layout and space allocation “right” on the sleeping floor when the starting point is 1/3 goes to the “primary” suite, and you have the constraint of a ~20′ wide interior.
“INCREDIBLE ATTENTION TO DETAIL: 12-ZONE ELECTRIC HEAT”
Hmmm.
LMFAO – Thats some great realator speak for electric baseboard heat. You really cant make that shit up
Going to be an expensive electric bill
Dark cabinetry throughout was a terrible choice. It dates this home so badly.
” It dates this home so badly.”
it was rehabbed 15 years ago. typically that’s what happens.
I would buy this. Might be 15 years old, but clearly very well done with much attention to detail. Huge difference between this and a typical developer flip.
” It dates this home so badly.”
“it was rehabbed 15 years ago. typically that’s what happens.”
Could have gone with timeless white.
Bedroom 2 should be turned into the master bedroom closet. Otherwise, there is not nearly enough closet space for the price point.
“not nearly enough closet space for the price point”
True!
Noted the lack of storage as well, but didn’t add.
“Could have gone with timeless white.”
Fortunately they fid not. White is much more boring and cheap looking than timeless.
Oven located next to the fridge!
Great back patio.
The only thing about this commonplace Lincoln Park house that is remotely “Spanish” is the tile roof. Other than that, it’s a typical late 19th century house that is vaguely Federal in style.
Per HH, why do so many kitchen designers position the range or oven right next to the refrigerator? You only do this when you have a kitchen that is so tiny, that there’s no other way to arrange things.
“The only thing about this commonplace Lincoln Park house that is remotely “Spanish” is the tile roof.”
I wonder who decided to add the tile roof and paint it (and the twin next door) white in the Spanish style?
Because, Laura is right, it doesn’t have any other Spanish features like Moorish arches and the like (some of which you see on houses on the north and south sides.) Beverly has some interesting Spanish Moorish style homes.
The Spanish bungalow was popular in Chicago and the suburbs in the 1920s. As it was all around the country, actually.
Does every architect have Aemes lounge chair? Some internet sleuthing tells me that an architect with a large, prominent firm lives in and designed this place.
What a shame that somewhere along the line, someone decided to rip any vintage touches out of this home. What’s left is a design that makes you feel like you could be anywhere. It’s not offensive, but it’s dull.
For a home with this kind of curb appeal in this location, I don’t see it going much below $2 million. Not my kind of place, but it’s a great street.