A 3-Bedroom Penthouse Loft with a Massive Skylight: 727 S. Dearborn in Printers Row
This 3-bedroom penthouse loft in The Donohue at 727 S. Dearborn in Printers Row came on the market in June 2021.
The Donohue was built in 1883 and was converted into lofts in 1990. It remains one of the few live/work loft buildings in the neighborhood.
It has 98 units and an exercise room. There’s no doorman nor garage.
This corner penthouse has 11 foot and 21 foot ceilings along with a dome vaulted 40×20 skylight.
See the pictures for what that looks like.
It has authentic loft features including a wide open floor plan and exposed brick.
The loft has hardwood floors and built-ins.
There’s a spiral staircase to the private 67×47 roof top with panoramic city views but the roof is not built out.
The kitchen has wood cabinets and granite counter tops.
It has the features buyers look for including central air and washer/dryer in the unit. Parking is leased in the neighborhood.
Listed at $1.175 million, is this a loft lover’s dream unit?
Susan Dickman at Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #1012: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 3500 square feet, loft
- Sold in October 1990 for $300,000
- Sold in August 1992 for $550,000
- Sold in June 2006 for $1.05 million
- Originally listed in June 2021 for $1.175 million
- Currently still listed at $1.175 million
- Assessments of $2227 a month (includes heat, exercise room, exterior maintenance, scavenger, Internet)
- Taxes of $15,793
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- No parking but there is rental parking in the neighborhood
- Skylight: 40×20
- Fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 16×15
- Bedroom #2: 15×11
- Bedroom #3: 16×16
- Living room: 33×18
- Dining room: 16×16
- Kitchen: 18×9
- Office: 16×15
- Library: 16×15
- Foyer: 12×10
- Walk-in-closet: 11×5
- Laundry room: 10×7
- Deck: 67×47
The domed skylight is unique. I’d really want to understand if the Heating & Cooling were sized for the gain/loss and who’s responsible for repairing (Its 30 YO)
A real stair should be a must a >$1MM
The unit @ ask is going to be a tough sell (as the 53 days shows), but folks looking for lofts are an different bunch
Unit 910 is pretty cool for someone that needs a studio space
Dome is amazing. I can imagine growing potted large trees inside.
The rest… another loft. Needs work. I am not a loft person.
I can’t imagine how hot it must get in the summer.
Over 200k down and nearly 8k a month for this unit and building seems very aggressive. The skylight is cool and its a huge place but it looks so dated and the exposed pipes are not for me, especially at this price point.
Everything on the roof would be (“virtually staged”) just sitting directly on … the roof? UGH! Does the condo even allow furniture out there? Building a proper deck, and dealing with the attendant roof repairs etc, *would* be a $100k+ job here.
Bathrooms suck, especially the one with windows that back on the pantry. Kitchen is 20 yo and needs to be updated. Too many walls, taking away so much of the positives of a true loft.
Could be super-duper awesome, but it’s a project. For $1.2m.
“Dome is amazing. I can imagine growing potted large trees inside.”
Definitely a possibility with that light and height. You could have a tropical jungle in your house, year round.
Guessing that dome is pretty nice during sunny winter days and pretty miserable (either too cold or hot) the rest of the time. I think actually using the roof without the deck built out voids the roof warranty – – the rest of the condo association should sue this owner if they have actually been walking about DIRECTLY on the f’n roof. If it is virtually staged, WTF on that too. I love the kitchen. The baths are…ahem….ok? I imagine all the mechanicals are due for a replace soon. Should have left the kitchen granite with a honed finish. The polished stuff is super dated looking to me (but easier to keep clean). Has a High School chemistry classroom vibe going.
We have a dome skylight in our kitchen that is about 1/5 the size of this one and it gets HOT in there on summer afternoons. It also creates its own weather system on really cold, sunny winter days. (the heat inside rises up into the dome, the sun prevents it from cooling off, the cold air outside the dome causes condensation inside the dome and water starts dripping onto the kitchen floor)
That’s a pretty hefty HOA for so few amenities and no parking.
Anyway, it’s an eye-catching unit that looks like it would make a fun workplace for some small company. Not so much a place that I’d want to call home.