A True Ukranian Village Brick Vintage 4-Bedroom Home Is On The Market: 2034 W. Thomas
A lot of you have sent me questions over the years about the historic brick bungalows in the Ukranian Village like this 4-bedroom at 2034 W. Thomas.
Built in 1897 on a 24×120 lot, it has been renovated and now has a more open floorplan. It doesn’t appear much of its vintage character remains on the interior however.
3 of the 4 bedrooms are on the second floor and it now has a master suite with an oversized tub. The fourth bedroom is in the lower level and has heated floors.
The kitchen has maple cabinets, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.
The house has central air and a 2-car garage.
It is located just 2 blocks from all the shops and restaurants of Division. The listing says it is a “landmarked” home.
Originally listed in March 2012 for $917,777, it has been reduced $18,777 to $899,000.
There have only been 2 other single family home sales on this block in the last 3 years. The most expensive, 2025 W. Thomas, sold in April 2011 for $627,000.
This neighborhood is popular with buyers. Will this home be able to command a price in the $800,000s?
Mario Greco at Prudential Rubloff has the listing. See the pictures here.
2034 W. Thomas: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2 car garage, no square footage listed
- Sold in April 2004 for $500,000
- Originally listed in March 2012 for $917,777
- Withdrawn in June 2012
- Re-listed in September 2012 for $899,000
- Currently still listed at $899,000
- Taxes of $8199
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 14×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 16×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 11×10 (lower level)
- Office: 18×8 (second floor)
Nice looking home, crazy how much SFH are listed for these days, even in the post-Daley post-Bubble era
Seems like from reading the news lately, that violent crime is creeping up and rising in the neighborhood. Do yourself a favor and don’t subscribe to Everyblock emails.
Fascinating layout, lots of quirks, listing could use a floorplan. This house manages to squeeze in everything a person could want. Extra wet bars, game room, office with built-ins, work-out area, two dining tables. Owner sure has alot of booze.
I understand the appeal of city living, I ‘get’ it, but a brick worker’s cottage for $899,000 is nothing compared to the elegance of a north shore suburb. Complete with schools, the lake, fresh air, less crime and neighbors who are in the same social class helps a lot too.
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Glencoe/424-Northwood-Dr-60022/home/13820764
The front/entry closet looks like a permanent port-a-john. The one bathtub sits in the middle of the room, and the one bathroom mirror is on the ceiling. Quirky! Overall, this would be a cool place to own.
I’m surprised as anyone that people are paying so much to live in this area
“neighbors who are in the same social class helps a lot too”
I thought that’s why you disdained the New Trier environs?
“listing could use a floorplan”
Had thought MG always had a floorplan. Pretty sure he said so here once. Wonder why not for this place, bc it really, really could use a floorplan.
“I understand the appeal of city living, I ‘get’ it, but a brick worker’s cottage for $899,000 is nothing compared to the elegance of a north shore suburb. Complete with schools, the lake, fresh air, less crime and neighbors who are in the same social class helps a lot too.”
If houses in this neighborhood are selling for this price point, how are the neighbors not in the same social class? Also, the suburbs lack good restaurants, diversity, and add to the commute considerably.
Taxes seem low. An advantage of living in a landmarked area I suppose.
“Taxes seem low. An advantage of living in a landmarked area I suppose.”
Or, if worth close to what they are asking, having a place that is well above average for the neighborhood.
Not gonna lie. When HD (or Groove, et al.) post Redfin links to north shore properties listed in the $750k – $1 million range, after I look at a half dozen or so and realize that one could close on some really great two-child family homes (i.e., move-in ready, 3,000 sq ft+, 4 bed+, no worse than a block or so west of, and sometimes as good as a block east of, GBR, with the K-12 issue safely squared away), for about what it’s going to cost us to find a half-way decent 2,000 sq ft 3 bed in LP, I find that I need to look away from the computer, take three deep breaths, and repeat 100 times out loud: “the commute would be a bummer, the commute would be a bummer, the commute would be a bummer. . .”
“I thought that’s why you disdained the New Trier environs?”
No, that’s why Helmet hates the north shore. I like it up there, it’s beautiful, but the lifestyle is, arguably, possibly, maybe, above my pay grade. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Someday the masses will be running through Glencoe with burning pitchforks (or more realistically semi-automatic weapons) and I’ll be safe in my compound in La Fox, Illinois.
annony, plenty of people live on the NS and commute downtown. I used to have bosses that worked 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 pm 5 days a week and missed all the traffic. You could catch the 7:48 am Winnetka train and be at the station by 8:26., and let me tell you, the longer commute time is negated by the comfort of travel. CTA buses and trains are awful, I know because I used them 5 days a week or more for 17 years. The metra is way cleaner, more comfortable, and all around a more comfortable ride. If worst came to worse, you’d just have to work less hours at work and leave earlier and say “I’ve got to catch a train”. Everyone would understand. Nothing wrong with spending more time with your family. Sure it’s not as cosmopolitan or fun as the city and the crowded urban environment, but the majority of people choose the suburban route, it’s the way the world is set up. even if you lived in manhattan, you’d be pining for homes in Ossing or somewhere on long island…
“I like it up there, it’s beautiful, but the lifestyle is, arguably, possibly, maybe, above my pay grade.”
Dude, you’ve gone on about your distaste for the entitlement mindset way too much on here over the years. You can’t suddenly decide that you think Chas and Muffy are “of the same social class”, unless you’ve (1) had a 7 figure PI *referral* come in, **and** (2) developed a serious amnesia/denialism about who you were (ie Palatine HD) the day before that settlement/verdict hit. I just don’t believe that you’re that un-self-aware, even if it were a high-7-figure referral.
“you’d just have to work less hours at work and leave earlier and say “I’ve got to catch a train”. Everyone would understand. Nothing wrong with spending more time with your family.”
hahahahahahaha. You don’t actually bill your time, do you?
And, it’s fewer.
“plenty of people live on the NS and commute downtown.”
Huh, you don’t say.
Dude, mY house wasn’t $899,999, I don’t think I’m insinuating in anyway that the 1% is of my social class. I’m just saying for those who want to spend the same amount of money for a worker’s cottage in UV.
“You don’t actually bill your time, do you?”
I have a mix of billable and non-billable and my revenue isn’t entirely dependent upon billable hours. Actually, this has been my high revenue grossing (and collected!) year since I started practicing law. Work smart, work efficiently, work on ‘fewer’ shitty cases and focus on the high value cases.
I have a friend whose grandparents settled in this area many years ago. They are actually Ukrainian. Her parents ended up buying a house in this area in the early 80s for about $25k. For a very long time the houses in this area were worth next to nothing. Now, suddenly, the properties her family owns are worth a ton of money. She and her family stay because they love the area. I wish my family had the foresight to buy in this area.
inner town pub is still open, wow.
“I’m just saying for those who want to spend the same amount of money for a worker’s cottage in UV.”
Ah, “social class” distilled to “financial class”. That makes sense. But the many arguments here about Oak Brook not being a comparable place to New Trier and Lake Forest belies that equivalence.
I think that there are people (perhaps not many, but not merely a handful) who can “afford” this place who would consider their neighbors in B’town to be their “social class”, but not feel the same about possible neighbors in a similar-priced ‘hood on the North Shore.
anon (tfo), it’s not palatine, it’s STONE PARK, for the 50th time, I bought in STONE PARK. Cheap houses, close to transportation, cheap houses, low taxes, cheap houses, and neighbors who know how to enjoy a tasty american lager, rather than wine drinking north shore snobs
anon(tfo) the problem with bucktown is that you cross the otherside of western and it’s a whole nother, and even dangerous world. so your immediate neighors may be of the social and financial class, but the greater surroundings is not, whereas the north shore is miles and miles of blissful existence in harmony (except for the glue huffing teenagers driving negligently) … you have to drive pretty far to get into a lower income area, and by lower income, residents usually mean west of GB road.
HD, you sometimes make me nuts, but you’re onto something — if my spouse and I could both take Metra to our offices, we’d probably go North Shore. Heck, if even one of us could take the Metra to work, we might do it. But neither of us can, which is absolutely maddening.
“anon (tfo), it’s not palatine, it’s STONE PARK, for the 50th time, I bought in STONE PARK.”
Was talking about your HS years.
“you have to drive pretty far to get into a lower income area, and by lower income, residents usually mean west of GB road.”
Which are terrifying streets to drive on, populated by girls from Glenview stopping in parking lots to shoot heroin.
“Which are terrifying streets to drive on, populated by girls from Glenview stopping in parking lots to shoot heroin.”
No, they were from winetka, iirc, at least that’s where their addresses were listed from. hotties too, lemme tell you.
“You can’t suddenly decide that you think Chas and Muffy are “of the same social class”,”
In the burbs… If it’s a nice enough hood and ya got enuff acreage, the house you want on a a nice purty street, with the obligatory good school for the “to be” obnoxious as all hell kids you are about to raise.. do you really give a rats ass about the social class of your neighbors? Do you even care who they are, beyond their “status” so that you can say you are neighbors with X, if you even care about that?
and anon.. you would need to know the quality of the golf ball.. range balls will reach terminal faster than a top quality ball 🙂
HD – your knowledge of obscure Chitown suburbs is rather impressive.
Nothing says “hometown pride” like a boarded up house: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fox,_Illinois
ze is alive!
nice to see ze posting
I speak for everyone when I say that we’re all sick of hearing about anything involving HD. No one cares.
“I speak for everyone when I say that we’re all sick of hearing about anything involving HD. No one cares.”
Untrue. Certainly, the current hd iteration is kinda boring. I enjoyed palatine hd, oip hd, and henpecked hd. DId not care for bizarro hd, at all.
” JJJ (October 22, 2012, 2:54 pm)
I speak for everyone when I say that we’re all sick of hearing about anything involving HD. No one cares.”
No one cares about you either, poseur.
DZ : You can’t please everyone all the time.
“Nothing says “hometown pride” like a boarded up house”
I think that water treatment plants next to million dollar homes is a strong second.
Still want to see the floorplan for this place. Can’t figure out the space. A pic of he back of the house would be nice, too, tho if I really cared, I’d drive down the alley.
“You can’t please everyone all the time.”
Tis true, but the story of sacagawea hd entertained just about everyone, and for a long time.
“range balls will reach terminal faster than a top quality ball ”
Also more likely to give you blood poisoning from a minor wound.
Did you do some 5-story crash-testing on your vacay?
“inner town pub is still open, wow.”
I go in every now and then. The place doesn’t seem to change. I still miss Sweet Alice sometimes though.
I think this house is hideous inside and whether it is close to Division street (which can be fun to visit) or not, I think $800-900k is a dream!
“Did you do some 5-story crash-testing on your vacay?”
Only went on the roof 1 time, and that was to escape from the guys that wanted the replica statue of liberty that was in the switched suitcase.
“No, that’s why Helmet hates the north shore.”
What are you talking about? I love it. I’m constantly defending Kenilworth, Winnetka, and I even encouraged you have the guts (as a long time American) to stake your own claim there, as wimps/cowards like you are being displaced by upwardly mobile Korean immigrants just off the damn boat! I don’t like the jappy parts of the North Shore, I prefer preppy to jappy, by a large margin.
“the longer commute time is negated by the comfort of travel. CTA buses and trains are awful, I know because I used them 5 days a week or more for 17 years. The metra is way cleaner, more comfortable, and all around a more comfortable ride.”
Did you ever hear about how polluted the air is on the Metra train cars? http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-diesel-fumes-gallery,0,1171824.storygallery
“I like it up there, it’s beautiful, but the lifestyle is, arguably, possibly, maybe, above my pay grade.”
This disturbs me to no end. HD: you can try and poke fun at me all you like, but I assure you I would never hold that defeatist attitude.
“You can’t suddenly decide that you think Chas and Muffy are “of the same social class”,”
HD: you are better than the Josh and Rachels on the North Shore. They are not in your social class, what’s wrong with you?
“I bought in STONE PARK.”
The speed limit on 6 lane wide Mannheim Rd. thru Stone Park is 35 mph. It’s a speed trap, they get alot of revenue that way.
“the social class of your neighbors?”
HD’s family has been in the USA for generations, he has a J.D. What else does he need to keep up? For chrissakes Joe friggin’ Zekas raised his family on the NS. HD: you gonna take second fiddle to that guy?!!
Who wants to live next to joe z? Hell no.
I actually do provide floor plans for every listing. Not sure why it wasn’t posted for this listing.
Looks like the home of an Eastern-European pickup-truck cabinet installer who off-hours remodelled the worker-cottage he inherited from his grandma. That’s a lot of light maple/oak Home Depot-quality cabinetry. Sorry, but I don’t understand the pricing on this house at all. This is low-end remodelling with subdivision-quality finishes, priced like a Lincoln Park high-end townhouse. The cheap-looking livingroom fireplace and the love-pit jacuzzi tub in the master bedroom just confirms it. Don’t think the big money hipster interested in this neighborhood wants to buy “Portage Park” at “Lincoln Park” pricing, only to gut the place again to do it right.
“sacagawea hd”
I dont recall this one. could you jog my memory?
“I dont recall this one. could you jog my memory?”
Search up top for ‘sacajawea’. Had to look it up myself. It was a groove thing, so obv. misspelled.
I agree with Architect. The finishes in this house are really ugly and, for the most part, it needs to be gutted. It just looks very dated. This is a beautiful street though.
I know this house and saw it being rehabbed (recently). I have to agree with Architect, above. Quality just isn’t there. For example, just look at the way the front windows were installed.
Architect!
Where’ve you been?
Also, can we hire you?
You have impeccable taste.
Oh Groove ur so funny.
“Search up top for ‘sacajawea’. Had to look it up myself. It was a groove thing, so obv. misspelled.”
I misremembered it as a Ze thing, though he was in the mix, and was citing in honor of his return. I also thought it was a touch over the top, fwiw, but was trying to add something ze related into the hd comment.
they were rolling that day. iirc hd’s lady suggested he take a timeout from cc soon after.
The Firecracker probably sent him a message.
ha. do you ever see her at nort center shindigs? by now she’s probably a big shot on bradley.
“do you ever see her at nort center shindigs? by now she’s probably a big shot on bradley.”
I’m not fancy enough for the BPL, so I’m probably not on the list if she is.
But didn’t she complain about the f’ing yuppies? The BPL would require a major change of heart.
bet her f’ing yuppie complaints in between drags on Kool 100s had hd smitten
Did she wear Oakleys?
“Did she wear Oakleys?”
She’s just a southside girl, Livin’ in a northside world
She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
Just a ‘burban boy, born and raised in Palatine
He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
Yeah, life coulda been so much more interesting w the firecracker, or that pretty jewish girl he likes to reminisce about. Instead he’s stuck, just trying to defend his ever so comfortable and safe life in teh burbs.
“I misremembered it as a Ze thing”
It kinda was.. Groove and I were in one of our bouts to prove who was more mentally challenged.. He pulled out the Sacagawea comment and I lost it… of course I was very high at the time.
hey, he’s a well respected man about town.
Floor plan is now posted to the MLS. Provider posting glitch
helmethofer (October 22, 2012, 5:03 pm)
“I bought in STONE PARK.”
The speed limit on 6 lane wide Mannheim Rd. thru Stone Park is 35 mph. It’s a speed trap, they get alot of revenue that way.
Actually Stone Park has a number of quaint ways to increase revenue:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=4853322