A 2-Bedroom Vintage Condo With Modern Updates in Old Town: 1400 N. LaSalle
This 2-bedroom in 1400 N. LaSalle in Old Town came on the market in July 2021.
Built in 1920s, this corner building has 6 units.
It does not have parking but does have a back garden.
This unit has some of its vintage features including 12 foot ceilings, crown moldings, hardwood floors.
It has a decorative fireplace with a marble mantle.
The kitchen has been “completely redone” by raising the kitchen’s ceiling, and has white cabinets (or gray?), gold handles and faucet, stone counter tops and stainless steel appliances.
Both bathrooms have been “gutted” and have current popular finishes including white subway tile, gold faucets and handles.
The primary bathroom has a dual vanity, the gold finishes and an oversized shower with dual shower head.
There has been an in-unit washer/dryer installed and HVAC with electric furnace.
It also has RH lighting.
There’s a private balcony overlooking the garden.
It doesn’t have parking but the listing says there is permit parking on Schiller or rental in the neighborhood.
This building is near the shops and restaurants of Old Town and the Gold Coast and is close to the Jewel and the Plum Market.
Buyers like “new.”
Will this go under contract by the end of the weekend?
Natalie Renna at Dream Town has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
You can also see it at the Open House on Sunday, July 18 from 10 AM to 12 PM.
Unit #2S: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in June 2018 at $420,000
- Currently listed at $600,000
- Assessments of $547 a month (includes exterior maintenance, scavenger)
- Taxes of $8375
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- No parking
- Decorative fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 14×15
- Bedroom #2: 14×10
- Living room: 15×17
- Dining room: 16×17
- Kitchen: 10×10
- Balcony: 13×7
you would have to pay me 600k to live in a 2nd floor unit right on LaSalle
no thank you
Wow. You’d have to really be in love with Old Town to justify this price for a small 2 bedroom right on Lasalle. Disappointing that they whitewashed out some of the character since purchasing in 2018.
“small 2 bedroom”
looks relatively spacious for a vintage 2/2
““small 2 bedroom”
“looks relatively spacious for a vintage 2/2”
Sure, it is relatively spacious for a vintage. But that’s beside the point — my point was that it is a relatively small 2 bedroom for the $600k price.
They didn’t “whitewash” to the detriment of the place…it NEEDED it. The prior finishes from the 2018 listing were awful…and it looked like the unit had been subject to several prior “renovations.” Current owner isn’t making money…I imagine it is priced to attempt to recoup some of what they put into it.
The ELECTRIC furnace would be an instant deal killer for me.
I read the description several times over to make sure I read it correctly because I couldn’t believe it.
Now, I hate natural gas, which is toxic, polluting, corrosive, and explosive, and pray for the day when we can make our buildings totally electric. Electric ranges, whether they or induction, or have the traditional radiant elements under glass, have greatly improved in precision and efficiency over the past 30 years. But electric heat is still almost as inefficient, and murderously expensive, as it was 35 years ago when I bolted a rental in St Louis after getting an electric bill for a relatively warm winter month, that was almost equal to the rent on my 1600 sq ft unit. I moved to a smaller 2 bed in the same building, and its electric baseboard were worse- I was even colder and had a higher electric bill.
When I can see that electric heat has become efficient enough that a person can make it through January in Chicago without taking out a second mortgage to pay the electric bill, while walking around the apartment wrapped in blankets at all times, I might try it again.
My condo has hot air from the building and electric baseboard heat. I not have turned it on since the first winter electric bill ten years ago. Instead, I use a space heater right next to me and the horrible inefficient fireplace (don’t pay gas!). I also walk around wrapped in blankets.
Lauren, you have my sympathy. What a miserable way to live, and unhealthy, too.
I never heard of combining a hot air furnace with electric baseboards, and I’ve never heard of a condo building here in Chicago that had such a bad heating system. Is the heat from the hot air furnace included in your HOA? And have the owners and Board in your building had any discussions about how to improve the heat and why the hot air system is so inadequate? How old is the building?
Laura,
My building is 16 years old. If I turn on the heat, hot air from the vents come on and the electric heaters under the windows in all three rooms turn on at the same time. It’s not that bad, really only gets to about 60 due to sun and everyone else around me using heat.
A/C is cheap. My summer electric bill in only $45.
Sold in September for $570.