A Vintage 6-Bedroom East Lincoln Park SFH with a 3-Car Garage: 416 W. Webster
This 6-bedroom vintage single family home at 416 W. Webster in East Lincoln Park came on the market in October 2021.
Built in 1890 on a 25×127 lot, it has a 3-car garage.
The house has been “extensively renovated” and no longer has any of its original vintage features although it does have high ceilings typical of a home from this period and three fireplaces, including a gas fireplace in the family room.
At 6495 square feet, the listing indicates that there is “ample opportunity for everyone to have their own work-from-home space.”
The house has a third floor library and a second floor office.
Three bedrooms are on the second floor, including the primary suite which has a “brand new” white bath with separate tub/shower, heated floors and dual sinks, as well as a walk-in-closet and a wall of closets.
There’s also a second full bathroom on this floor.
The third floor has two more additional bedrooms with one en suite and a second new hall bath.
The sixth bedroom is in the lower level which the listing says could be an in-law or nanny suite as it has a separate entrance. It could also be closed off and rented with the listing saying it could command $1800 a month.
The lower level has a carpeted recreation room, a second kitchen and an exercise room.
The living and dining rooms are on the main floor along with the kitchen which the listing says was “newly updated.”
The kitchen has white cabinets with high-end stainless steel appliances including a Subzero fridge, Thermador oven, and Bosch dishwasher.
It has a built-in desk and a banquette dining space along with an island and a breakfast bar.
The kitchen is adjacent to a great room which opens onto a “brand new” deck over the 3-car garage which includes an outdoor fireplace and pergola.
The house has central air and a large skylight over the main staircase.
This property is near Lincoln Park Zoo and Conservatory and the shops and restaurants of East Lincoln Park and Old Town.
Listed in October 2021 for $2.75 million, it has been reduced $100,000 to $2.65 million.
Does this house have it all for a family looking to live in Lincoln Park?
Emily Sachs Wong at @Properties Christie’s Intl has the listing. See the pictures and video here. It has a floor plan link, but no floor plan is actually listed.
416 W. Webster: 6 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 6495 square feet, single family home
- Sold in May 1998 for $915,000
- Sold in June 2000 for $1.115 million
- Sold in August 2022 for $1.87 million
- Sold in April 2012 for $1.68 million
- Originally listed in October 2021 for $2.75 million
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $2.65 million
- Taxes of $79,807
- Central Air
- 3 fireplaces
- 25×127 lot
- 3-car garage
- Bedroom #1: 15×18 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 12×16 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 8×11 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 11×11 (third floor)
- Bedroom #5: 10×10 (lower level)
- Bedroom #6: 8×14 (third floor)
- Library: 19×14 (third floor)
- Office: 13×8 (second floor)
- Living room: 18×20 (main floor)
- Dining room: 16×11 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 14×17 (main floor)
- Family room: 15×13 (main floor)
- Exercise room: 10×16 (lower level)
- Recreation room: 16×20 (lower level)
- Work room: 9×13 (lower level)
- New deck over the garage
$2.6MM and no dedicated/focal point wine cellar? Who are these heathens?
A cheap firepit when you have an outdoor fireplace?
Whomever took out the original mantel in the living room should be shot if the face
Doesnt really feel like a $2.5MM+ home + its on Webster. $2.2 seems like the right price
Nice. Killer gator deck. Webster isn’t bad there (I lived on it a few blocks east), but agree with JU that $2.2 is probably the right range.
“a 3-car garage…on a 25×127 lot”
GFTO! What kind of cars? Peel P50s?
“Taxes of $79,807”
WOW!! THOSE are high taxes.
The relatively rare property that is WAAAY overassessed:
2021 AMV = $4,771,020
2020 AMV = $3,613,530
That is, of course, in a context where they had appealed these prior Assessor proposed values:
2012 = $1,770,230 (went down to $1,680,000)
2015 = $1,680,930 (went down to $1,569,010)
2016 = $1,569,010 (went down to $1,400,000)
2017 = $1,507,700 (went down to $1,429,600)
2018 = $1,845,660 (went down to $1,595,000)
2019 = $4,530,760 (went down to about $3,613,530)
It does look way better than when they bought it, in almost all respects.
“the lower level is an easy rental option and can be rented at approximately $1,800 a month”
Enough to almost pay 30% of the property tax! Winner-Winner!
““a 3-car garage…on a 25×127 lot”
GFTO! What kind of cars? Peel P50s?”
Its just a number
“GFTO! What kind of cars? Peel P50s?”
so do we think the agent, who has a solid reputation, is just bullish!ting? from the pics, the roof deck looks bigger than a typical garage deck. they’re probably able to tandem park 2 cars, yes, smaller ones, and fit a suv next to it. they may be able to pull a car up under the stair structure (pic 42)
“Its just a number”
Most of the internet sez that a ‘normal’ 3-car garage is at least 32′ wide. The lowest number I found after gthooi was 28′. You certainly see 3 car garages on 30′ lots in Chicago, so it’s plausible at 28.
Only way to have 3 usable parking spaces in a garage on a 25′ lot would be to tandem the 3d, but pic 41 shows that there isn’t room for that.
Call it a huge 2-car, or a 2.5 car, but only fitting 3 cars in that garage if they are tiny, or self-parking so you don’t have to open the doors while in the garage.
“they may be able to pull a car up under the stair structure (pic 42)”
Looks like they’d have to park it perpendicular, bc of the stairs down and the back of the house (pic 41)–looks to be 28′ from the alley to that outside wall on the googs. It’s definitely ~22′ from the back to the railing over the stairs down. Is the garage extra deep? Probably. Is it practical to park a car in the extra space? very unlikely. Could you squeeze your convertible in there? maybe.
realtors are loose as shit about garages–we’ve seen 22×20 garages called 2.5 car on the cc. It’s like JU said–it’s just like square footage.
E&T appear to have a 4 car garage on a 36′ lot, built edge to edge. Their neighbor has a 3-car (kissing their wall), plus a ~5′ walkway, also on 36′.
Across the alley is a 5-car on a 48′ lot.
Gotta have 9′ per car in width for it to be usable for cars. Love the extra storage of a bigger garage, tho, anyway.
Looking at the 12 photos, they had a tree coming thru the lower deck off the kitchen/FR. Possible they took the tree out and extended the garage structure back creating a tandem its going to be low like ‘6 or possibly its enough where the bumped it out enough to have the hood in the lower area (Think old garages where the made a bump out to fit their 70’s cars and close the door
or the simple solution is they have a lift
I really want to see this garage now – Assuming clear span and supporting the deck live load its probably spectacular
Damn, it must be hard work to make a place that looks like this on the outside look so soulless and generic on the inside.
Quite an impressive property, as long as you’re not expecting vintage charm. And a 3-car garage at this location is unheard of. Speaking of location, it’s pretty much perfect as well. The rooms look huge, as well. It’s not necessarily the style I’d choose on the interior, but added all up, it’s hard to disagree with the asking price.
“the back of the house (pic 41)–looks to be 28? from the alley to that outside wall on the googs.”
I looked at some other aerials, and it’s probably a little more than 28′, but it’s not more than ~35′. Which would leave a straight-in tandem spot hemmed in by the stairs and the house, and all quite low–enough space that you could squeeze in a car, but it would be kinda like the bad spots between columns in a big garage.
Too bad there aren’t floorplans.
If they’re lying about the garage, makes you wonder what else they might be lying about.
Emily Sachs Wong’s listings rarely have floor plans included.
“lying about the garage”
At most, I’d call it exaggeration.
They aren’t lying about how high the taxes are, though! Those are Oak Park level taxes.
This one closed in July for $2.52m.