A Hyde Park Vintage 4-Bedroom with Garage Parking for $649,000: 5830 S. Stony Island
This 4-bedroom in the Vista Homes at 5830 S. Stony Island in Hyde Park came on the market in January 2023.
Built in 1926, Vista Homes is a co-op with 120 units. According to Chicago Apartments, A Century of Lakefront Luxury, the promotional brochure for the building called it the world’s largest co-op building.
The units ran from four rooms resembling “tiny suburban cottages” to “spacious 11-room apartments as pretentious as a town house.”
The building, designed by Paul Frederick Olsen, has four sets of passenger and freight elevators. It is constructed of red brick with Bedford stone trim and has stained glass windows.
According to Chicago Apartments, an athletic club was supposed to be built directly to the south but was never built. Currently, it’s a large shared garden, with garden plots.
This building is also a rare vintage building that has a parking garage. According to Chicago Apartments, it is connected to the building by tunnel and is the “World’s 1st Co-Op garage.” It’s 2 stories high with room for more than 100 cars.
The building also has door staff, on-site management, a resident engineer, the gardens and a playground.
This unit is one of the 11-room units and it has park and lake views.
It has some of its original features including a gallery foyer and the original crown modelings. There are also oak hardwood floors throughout.
The kitchen has white cabinets and what look like stone countertops. In the pictures from the 2012 sale, the washer/dryer was also in the kitchen.
The primary bedroom appears to have an en suite bathroom and a dressing room.
The unit has features buyers look for including central air, garage parking and washer/dryer in the unit. These are all rare for a nearly 100 year old property.
This building is near the University of Chicago and the Lab Schools, the Museum of Science and Industry, Jackson Park and the shops and restaurants of Hyde Park. It’s also near a Metra stop.
Listed at $649,000, is this a deal for a family home in this neighborhood?
Robert Sullivan at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices has the listing. See the pictures and the floor plan here.
Unit #4A: 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2400 square feet, co-op
- Sold in July 2012 for $430,000 (per Redfin as it’s a co-op so it’s difficult to get prior sales prices)
- Currently listed at $649,000
- Assessments of $2780 a month (includes heat, gas, parking, taxes, doorman, cable, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes are included in assessments
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Garage parking included
- Bedroom #1: 19×11
- Bedroom #2: 15×11
- Bedroom #3: 15×11
- Bedroom #4: 11×9
- Living room: 24×14
- Dining room: 19×13
- Family room: 18×12
- Kitchen: 13×9
- Walk-in-closet: 12×6
- Gallery: 30×7
Seems like a nice enough place but the photos really suck. HOA isn’t bad. Price would be reasonable if the kitchen and that’s were updated (not lux, just updated).
Study area would likely make a good Entertainment room
It’s a travesty they painted the CM
I’ll pull a Jenny and say the bathroom situation is terrible
Only a powder room in the MBR
Guests need to go thru one of the BRs
“Only a powder room in the MBR”
??? Looks like a full, plus another full thru the dressing room, shared with the study.
Highest sale I find is $608k in Sep-21 for this one:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/5830-S-Stony-Island-Ave-60637/unit-14A/home/178676434
which is updated into something that pretty much sux. Kitchen is decent, but I don’t like the cabinet finishes.
Only other one I see over $400k is…
This one, at $560, in Jun-21:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/5844-S-Stony-Is-Ave-60637/home/13943831
Both of them redid the floorplan to turn the study into a bedroom, which, imo, is a negative, unless needed bc you took the maids room for a total kitchen redo.
It’s really too bad that these units aren’t ‘worth’ putting $100 psf in renos/updates into. They’d be great.
Pix of teh gym and the garage with this one:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/5840-S-Stony-Island-Ave-60637/unit-3F/home/108245911
“Only a powder room in the MBR”
It’s four full baths.
Open up the 11×9 bathroom into an office area and guests have access to a bathroom that is not in a bedroom
Not a perfect place but a great amount of space. And I agree with the comments on the kitchen.
“??? Looks like a full, plus another full thru the dressing room, shared with the study.”
Missed it
Meant to say Kitchen and baths were updated
Thanks for the pictures of the garage anon(tfo). It looks nice. Designed by the same architect who did the building. I’d like to see pictures of the “tunnel” you walk through to get to the building. Sounds cool.
The side garden is amazing. What an added bonus.
This building is in a great location if you work for the University or your kids go to Lab. Great views too.
Lovely place. You know what I’m going to say next: Too bad it’s on a low floor. I imagine the views would be quite dramatic higher up.
Why is this one of the few 1920’s buildings to have a garage? Plenty of rich people had cars then. I can’t imagine what the designers were thinking when they built so many LSD high rises with no garages.
Thanks, anon, for sharing that earlier listing of 14A. Confirms my thoughts that views are tremendous higher up. If I were interested in this building, I’d set my sights on a high-floor unit.
“Why is this one of the few 1920’s buildings to have a garage? Plenty of rich people had cars then. I can’t imagine what the designers were thinking when they built so many LSD high rises with no garages.”
1926. Did they? I’m honestly asking because there aren’t many buildings from the 1920s with parking.
My guess is that it simply cost too much money to build a garage in most locations. They didn’t build on top of the garage because that would ruin the building, right? Architecture is ugly. The only way this has one is because they built it behind it and connected it with a tunnel.
I think the lack of parking in many vintage upscale buildings may be due to:
(a) The people who used these as “summer homes near the lake” were content to use taxis or streetcars for traveling within the city limits.
(b) The people who actually lived in those buildings were okay with having their cars parked elsewhere and “rang” for their chauffeur to bring the cars to the building when needed. Otherwise they may have used taxis.
3800 N LSD is a 1920’s building with an unobtrusive garage.
“3800 N LSD is a 1920’s building with an unobtrusive garage.”
Was the garage built at the same time?
Dan #2, what they were thinking in the 1920s when they built luxury buildings without garages, is that the building’s parking valets would park the cars in a garage a few blocks away. Residents would call the doorman to have their cars brought to the front door and turn them over to the valet when they returned home. Luxury buildings had an even higher level of service then than they do now, by far.