A 3-Bedroom Duplex Up With 2 Outdoor Spaces: 811 W. Webster in Lincoln Park

This 3-bedroom duplex up at 811 W. Webster in Lincoln Park just came on the market.

Built in 1930, this building has 6 units and garage parking.

The listing says this is the largest unit in the building.

This unit has what some would call loft-like features with exposed brick walls, timber beams and skylights with hardwood floors throughout.

The living room, dining room and kitchen, along with a half bath are on the main floor along with the first outdoor space.

There’s a wood burning fireplace.

The eat-in kitchen has white cabinets, an island with seating, a double oven, a Wolf gas cook top and a double refrigerator.

All three bedrooms are on the second floor along with the two full baths.

The listing calls the primary bedroom a “retreat” with an en suite bath with a separate shower and tub, and a double vanity.

You can also access the private rooftop terrace from the primary bedroom.

If you need more outdoor space, there’s also 2 common outdoor spaces.

This property has the features that buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and garage parking is included.

It’s near shops and restaurants on Halsted as well as just a few blocks to popular Oz Park.

Listed at $835,000, is this a townhouse alternative?

Laura Bibbo Katlin at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.

Unit #E: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, duplex up

  • Sold in December 1993 for $299,000
  • Sold in March 1996 for $321,000
  • Sold in September 2008 for $713,000
  • Sold in September 2017 for $725,000
  • Currently listed at $835,000
  • Assessments of $402 a month (includes exterior maintenance, scavenger, snow removal)
  • Taxes of $14,291
  • Central Air
  • Washer/dryer in the unit
  • Garage parking included
  • Wood burning fireplace
  • 4 outdoor spaces- 2 private and 2 common
  • Bedroom #1: 14×14 (second floor)
  • Bedroom #2: 13×12 (second floor)
  • Bedroom #3: 12×12 (second floor)
  • Living room: 19×13 (main floor)
  • Dining room: 17×10 (main floor)
  • Kitchen: 13×9 (main floor)
  • Deck: 9×22 (second floor)
  • Deck: 8×11 (main floor)

23 Responses to “A 3-Bedroom Duplex Up With 2 Outdoor Spaces: 811 W. Webster in Lincoln Park”

  1. I think you’re linking to the previous sale

    Layout is pretty efficient

    Is the only access thru the back deck?

    A smart time to try and sell before bars are fully open. Potential buyers would be well served hanging out here Thurs-Saturday to see what they’re in for

    Biggest rats I’ve ever seen were in this alley

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  2. Linked to the 2017 listing above.

    Here’s the current listing https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/M8898158271

    Though the 2017 and 2021 lists are substantially the same. Since buying in 2017, doesn’t look like they’ve updated much — might have rehabbed a bathroom (or just omitted the funky one from the listing).
    $110k ask over the 2017 sale seems steep.

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  3. A very wise used car salesman once said, “There is a a@@ out there for every seat” and I guess the same thing applies to real estate.

    Zero curb appeal. The garage door to nowhere is priceless and so is the SS prison toilet.

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  4. Current RF listing:

    https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/811-W-Webster-Ave-60614/unit-E/home/13351945

    If it comes with the Chevelle in the streetview, I’ll take it.

    Surprised that the Athenian Room didn’t make it into the listing.

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  5. See:

    http://cribchatter.com/?p=7749

    That place closed for $282 in Oct-10, and hasn’t been sold since.

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  6. Listing says this is a landmarked building. I’m assuming they would have to get approval from the landmarks commission to paint it grey or do we think they did it on their own. I’d have a hard time imagining it would be approved.

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  7. It may be landmarked but I don’t see the charm in paying $835,000 to live in what looks like a garage.

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  8. As a dedicated customer of the Athenian Room for nearly 40 years, I sure hope the person who saw big rats in this alley is wrong about that. Well, the place has never been shut down by the Health Dept., as far as I know.

    Can’t say the same for Sun Wah, but I dined there happily last night.

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  9. JonnyU there is medication out there that can help. I don’t think you have typed a positive thing on this site? Given many things you point out to/about BriBri are mostly correct, they all seem to be of the negative variety too.

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  10. Good vintage properties I’m positive on, but very anti- shlock, unfortunately Sabrina is very pro Shlock and anti quality. Also I don’t like people being taken advantage of by shills like Sabrina/JoeZ

    Dan – loved the AR – but there were monster rats in the alley. Outnumbered drunks pissing in the alley and on this house

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  11. “Dan – loved the AR – but there were monster rats in the alley. Outnumbered drunks pissing in the alley and on this house”

    Just a reminder that JohnnyU lives in Indiana and probably hasn’t been in this neighborhood in like 20+ years. That’s what he’s basing his “experience” on. A far away time period that doesn’t exist anymore.

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  12. Just a reminder that Sabrina is an idiot and a shill.

    It’s kinda cute how much you feel the need to lie about me.

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  13. “$110k ask over the 2017 sale seems steep.”

    Ordinarily, I would agree with you. But I sold my condo in Bucktown two and a half years ago. The sellers did nothing to improve it and listed for $70k more than what they paid. Ended up closing last month at $30k over ask price. I was pretty shocked.

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  14. “Just a reminder that Sabrina is an idiot and a shill.”

    Why are you even on this blog JohnnyU?

    Every day is one big storm of negative energy. You have never posted one single decent positive thing on this blog.

    We all know why HH was here. But why do you come on every day and just sling insults? What is the point of that in your life? Or any life?

    So sad.

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  15. Back in 2008 when the housing bust started, there were some realtors who were posting on this blog who used to argue that Lincoln Park would never decline in price because it was Lincoln Park.

    They were wrong but it took a few years of the bust before it became obvious that prices were down in EVERY neighborhood of the city. No neighborhood was spared.

    I bring this up now because back in 2008, the contrarians on this site (they were bulls who refused to believe that housing was actually busting), would actually argue with real facts and not feeling.

    But now, when things are reversed, the contrarians (who are now bears) refuse to acknowledge the data that is posted every month which indicates that this is one of the hottest markets in 15 years. Yes, even Chicago is hot (hard to believe.)

    Why is that?

    Where is the argument about the actual data?

    There isn’t ever any. It’s all just “the doom is coming” even while month after month prices are going up as inventory goes down and record sales are recorded.

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  16. “But now, when things are reversed, the contrarians (who are now bears) refuse to acknowledge the data that is posted every month which indicates that this is one of the hottest markets in 15 years. Yes, even Chicago is hot (hard to believe.)“

    I don’t think there’s anyone who isn’t as irrationally bullish as you that has disagreed with you wrt sales numbers. So strawman defeated

    You don’t seem to acknowledge that there isn’t much appreciation. Even the links you posted a day or 2 back haven’t seen much, even newly renovated properties when you account for the capital investment . Will urban pioneers make out if the economy stays bullish? Yes, that’s always been the case

    You fail to admit or even acknowledge that Chicago has some major structural faults, that if not addressed will be a major handicap to Chicago RE. You act like a 3 year old who sticks their fingers in there ears and screams to they don’t have to hear it.

    As far as negativity to the blog, it’s negativity towards your shill type comments vice the blog itself.

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  17. @JohnnyU, maybe you should form your own blog of Indiana real estate. You can just criticize every property to your heart’s content, no matter how nice it is. You’ll be in hog heaven.

    @Sabrina, sorry you have to put up with this. I enjoy CribChatter, and the constructive, useful comments.

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  18. Resorting to sock puppetry Sabrina? for shame

    I lived within spitting (metaphorically) from here. If you dont think that the patrons of Glascotts are going to use the side of the house as a urinal and there aren’t rats in this alley, you must not have ever lived in Chicago

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  19. “Good vintage properties I’m positive on”

    Same here, love me some vintage details. When was the last time a new construction did some arched door ways? Some quality decorative hand made banisters?

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  20. Since Sabrina and her sock puppet like “Facts”

    Ripped from the headlines

    “Nearly two-thirds of millennials have new homebuyer regrets, survey finds”

    https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/homebuyer-regret-survey-may-2021/

    I dont think this a good sign. (In General) Millennials tend to be sheep like – following the crowd.

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  21. “Same here, love me some vintage details. When was the last time a new construction did some arched door ways? Some quality decorative hand made banisters?”

    I think it was on the 17th of never

    Heck even detailed escutcheon plates, push button switches make a huge difference

    Its very possible to keep actual vintage (Vs saying something is vintage, like some are wont to do) and include modern amenities. Unfortunately it costs a bit more so developers have convinced the masses that “modern” done poorly is preferable

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  22. “Same here, love me some vintage details. When was the last time a new construction did some arched door ways? Some quality decorative hand made banisters?”

    If you go up in the price point you get this. Many of the “new” mansion homes being built in Lincoln Park and Lakeview above $4 million range have great details. But they are pricey. Means you need actual craftsmen to build it.

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  23. “If you go up in the price point you get this. Many of the “new” mansion homes being built in Lincoln Park and Lakeview above $4 million range have great details. But they are pricey. Means you need actual craftsmen to build it.”

    BS

    You dont have to go up to $4MM to get great details and it doesnt add that much to the cost. It all comes down to where you spend your money – “South African volcanic stone freestanding soaking tub” Vs a re-glazed/finished clawfoot tub. Go with the Clawfoot tub and use the savings elsewhere.

    But thats not the path of least resistance and you get what you get – boring attempts a modern done poorly.

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