An Indoor Swimming Pool and Resort-Style Rooftop Deck: 1010 W. George in Lakeview
This 5-bedroom single family home at 1010 W. George in Lakeview came on the market in October 2020.
If it looks familiar, that’s because we’ve chattered about it several times over the years.
The listing says it was built in 1905, but in our old chatter someone said it was 1885 and that it was a former church.
See our 2011 chatter here.
It’s on an irregular lot measuring 56×94 and has a 2.5 car attached heated garage.
The listing says it has been “completely renovated in 2017-2019.”
It’s 8,400 square feet.
It has 30-foot ceiling heights on the main floor with massive skylights.
The house has a Boffi kitchen which is described as “professional grade” with Wolf/Miele/Gaggeneau appliances with a double oven and a double refrigerator/freezer.
There are 4 bedrooms on the second floor, all of which are en suite, including the primary suite, and the fifth bedroom is on the third floor.
The primary suite has a 300 square foot walk-in-closet and the bath has an oversized steam shower and heated floors.
The house has many unique features including an indoor pool, steam room, sauna and cold plunge.
The listing says it has a “professional level” exercise center.
There’s a theater and a family room.
The house also has several outdoor spaces including a 3,000 square foot “resort level” roof which has an outdoor kitchen with Kalamazoo grill, pizza oven and bar seating, along with an outdoor tv, fireplace and integrated sound.
The house has central air and an elevator.
It’s come on the market at $3.995 million.
With the luxury market hot in 2020, will this house get the premium?
Mario Greco at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
1010 W. George: 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 8,400 square feet
- Sold in December 2001 for $225,000
- Sold in April 2005 for $2.4 million
- Sold in January 2006 for $3 million
- Lis pendens filed in December 2006
- Bank owned in October 2007
- Sold in October 2008 for $1 million
- Sold in August 2011 for $2,640,618
- Listed in October 2020 for $3.995 million
- Taxes are now $55,811 (they were $44,428 in 2011)
- Central Air
- 2.5 car heated garage
- Indoor pool
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Cold plunge
- Outdoor kitchen
- Outdoor TV
- Outdoor fireplace
- Elevator
- Skylights
- Bedroom #1: 22×17 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 20×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 13×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #5: 22×17 (third floor)
- Living/dining room: 55×29 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 17×16 (main floor)
- Theater: 26×20 (lower level)
- Exercise room: 30×28 (lower level)
- Walk-in-Closet: 23×10 (second floor)
- Laundry room: 8×6 (second floor)
- Deck: 89×35 (third floor)
- Terrace: 53×7 (main floor)
I don’t get it. this place is hideous.
Wasn’t this R Kelly’s house?
Sorry for the downvote Sonies. I believe this was R. Kelly’s place.
well at least they got rid of the room that identified it in the child porn videos shot there. yikes. does a remodel take away the heebie jeebies of what we now know went on there, seeing as we know a lot more than last time it was for sale?
However great it is inside, it still looks like a garage. That’s a big barrier for me and my $4 million. I might look elsewhere with my money.
Does anyone agree with me the inside looks like a prison? Maybe that will help R Kelly get used to life on the actual inside.
It’s interesting and loaded with high-cost amenities,and really is a great place to raise kids, so I’m sure some nice, well-off family can clear it of any creepy vibes left by a previous notorious occupant. But, as Dan pointed out, it has no beauty, and it’s very taste-specific.
I love the pool, but I couldn’t bring myself to pay $4M for a tarted-up warehouse in a city like Chicago, that has so much wonderful architecture, and so many beautiful houses and apartments in that price range, that are much more livable.
Something that peeves me with almost all modern bathrooms built in the past ten years: the horrid free-standing tubs that are so trendy now. I really hate that so many fine old antique baths are being reno’d with these tubs, and the hideous Victorian revival tubs on legs are even worse. First, who wants a tub you have to clean behind, or under? Worst of all, though, these tubs are not comfortable or safe for anyone who isn’t a young, agile adult. They’re difficult to enter and exit, and very easy to slip and fall in. I tried getting in and out of one in a bath showroom on Touhy, and found it scary. A child could easily drown in one. The sides are so narrow that it’s impossible to perch on the edge to get in and out. I wonder if people actually use them, and guess most don’t, just shower all the time. IMO one of the greatest inventions of the last century was the classic recess apron tub.
Sorry, not dropping $4MM to be the Pee House Guy
Re Clawfoot Tubs. Anyone that’s got a $750k house thats not hiring out the cleaning is doing it wrong
If its that difficult to get out of a tub, its probably time to move to an assisted care facility
Love the deck and the indoor pool.
The living/dining/kitchen area(s) look like the office of a startup that went under when the dotcom bubble burst in 2000.
the heebie jeebies of what we now know went on there
It would be difficult to get past because you KNOW what happened (and what happened was SO terrible), but anyone who lives in a building that’s more than, say, 80 years old is likely living in a place where something awful happened!
I see Laura and Johnny’s points on clawfoot tubs.
Personally I hate them and would never want. But yes, if you can afford an expensive home, you can afford a cleaning person. Even if you can’t afford a really expensive home, you can likely afford someone every couple weeks to clean the bathtub and toilet.
Even if I could afford this place, I would’t buy it because I’d never hear the end of the R Kelly pee pee jokes from my idiot friends and relatives.
I have no trouble entering and exiting an ordinary recess tub of the type made 1920-1950, thank you very much. I also have no trouble taking care of myself or my house in any other respect. But these high-sided tubs ARE more difficult.
As for hiring someone to clean, there are many people with houses that cost rather more than $750,000 who simply do not want cleaning people in their homes, because of concerns about privacy and security. I do not care how carefully vetted these people are, they look and they talk. I would personally rather organize and mechanize my household chores to minimize the number of strangers I have to have in my house.
Who cares who lived here 20 years ago, and getting rid of that tub would take about 5 minutes. This place is awesome.
Laura, I see your concerns, but we’ve had just three different long-term cleaning people work for us over the last 25 years and all have been trustworthy, lovely people. Two we found by putting up ads. Those two were both from Poland, and we grew so fond of them and felt so comfortable with them that we trusted them to watch our young kids at times. Our cleaning lady now is a wonderful woman from Mexico who had been already working for my wife’s parents for many years when we finally hired her. So we knew how great she’d be. It helps to network a bit.
In fact, Laura, we trusted our last cleaning lady so much (she worked for us for 11 years), that we gave her our key so she could let herself in on the odd chance we weren’t home (she’d come when we were on vacation, for instance). She also took care of our cat those times.
I guess it sounds spoiled, but after 25 years, I can’t imagine going without. My wife and I don’t earn millions, but we don’t consider it a waste to spend roughly $6,000 a year on this expense. We probably spend far more dining out.
A bro place, maybe if 5 ballers go in together it would be their perfect hang. Isn’there a sports team about 7 blocks away?
“I’m sure some nice, well-off family can clear it of any creepy vibes left by a previous notorious occupant.”
The listing says it was completely renovated in 2017-2019.
If you read the prior chatter, when it was bank owned it had some real problems which had to be addressed and that was before the recent remodel.
“Maybe that will help R Kelly get used to life on the actual inside.”
Listing says it has been completely renovated in the 2017-2019 period.
Ummm…. “Completely” renovated and yet the main living space still looks to be right outta the late 1980s early 1990s…
On the plus side, I love the pool. Need to put marks on the wall and approach to the wall if one is going to do laps here.
Kitchen is just a collection of high end brands arranged in an uninspired way
I would also hate to see these utility bills.
I bet this still gets and will continue to get a lot of R.Kelly lookey-loos. So that’s another thing you have to put up with.
Dan, I’m glad you have found trustworthy housekeepers, and I know they do exist, because I have a friend who does it for a living, and has a team of carefully-selected people working for her.
It’s still a risk, though, and I’m not sure I want even this very fine, trustworthy lady knowing quite so much about me.
I do love the pool in this house. In fact, I wonder why more large, expensive new homes don’t have indoor pools. Once you live with one, you never want to live in a building that doesn’t have one.
This house is under contract listed at $2.995 million.
The listing:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1010-W-George-St-60657/home/13363114
Sold!
$2.9m