Custom Mid-Century Modern 3-Bedroom SFH in Budlong Woods: 5428 N. Virginia
This 3-bedroom mid-century modern single family home at 5428 N. Virginia in Budlong Woods just came on the market.
I don’t have a picture for it yet but I wanted to cover it immediately as it might not last on the market for very long.
Built in 1951, it is on a larger than average Chicago lot measuring 122×50 and has a 1-car garage as well as a driveway.
The listing says the house is “custom.”
Take a look at that front door.
It has the floor plan and features that were common in the 1950s including large windows and a sliding door in the back of the house that overlooks the backyard.
The house has remote controlled skylights in the kitchen which is a chef’s kitchen with modern cabinets, a 48″ six-burner gas stove with dual electric ovens and dual warming drawers as well as other features like a Bosch coffee center.
There are hardwood floors on the main floor.
2 of the 3 bedrooms are upstairs with the third in the lower level.
There are heated floors in both bathrooms.
The backyard is landscaped and appears to be fenced in.
It has a partially covered patio with a built-in pizza oven, barbeque grill and fire pit table all outfitted with a gas line.
There are also exterior speakers and landscape lighting.
This house backs up onto a public park which abuts the Chicago River which has trails and a playground.
The listing indicates that there have only been 2 owners of this house since it was built.
Is this a hidden gem on the north side?
Nancy Huetteman at Redfin has the listing. See the pictures here.
Or go see it in person this weekend at the Open Houses on Saturday, June 15 from 11-1 pm and June 16 from 12-2 pm.
5428 N. Virginia: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1695 square feet
- Sold in February 2012 for $330,000
- Currently listed at $549,000
- Taxes of $6943
- Attached 1-car garage
- Central Air
- Gas fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 13×15 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 13×16 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 12×18 (lower level)
- Laundry room: 6×9 (lower level)
Needs more televisions.
great house, had to look at the map to figure out where it was at though
“Needs more televisions.”
There’s not actually a tv in the main living area, is there?
Could kayak to northside.
“There’s not actually a tv in the main living area, is there?”
No, kitchen. Oddly enough, I was at a dinner party this week and the hosts had recently installed a tv on their kitchen wall. I’d been there for a few dinners over the past year and was surprised to see it. They’re really “worldly” and smart folks (I always feel like a total bumpkin around them) and not (as far as I know) sports nuts, so don’t really understand why it was important enough to them place it there. Maybe this is a new trend?
This could be hard to sell to a family with two young kids. Most parents don’t want their kids to share a room, or to have a kid’s bedroom in the basement (until they’re teens, anyway).
A TV in the kitchen isn’t strange. My mom cooked a lot and always had on the news or Channel 11 on on a small TV in the kitchen. Granted it wasn’t wall mounted (it was the late 80s and 90s after all)
Wow! A beautiful home! The renovation was certainly done by someone with a keen eye for design and detail. It all seems to flow really well. The big windows overlooking the landscaped lawn is a huge bonus. Very beautiful place!
“Wow! A beautiful home!”
It’s amazing how many hidden gems are out there across many different neighborhoods.
If only the weather would improve, I would visit even more of those neighborhoods to get some decent pictures. But this is the year without a summer.
Year without summer: I know what you mean. I’m so depressed about this. All winter I waited for warmth and sun, and now for every warm sunny day we get five like this: 50s and foggy/wet. I’m ready to move.
get used to it… only going to get colder and wetter going forward
last two weeks here have been amazing weather wise though, 80’s, sunny not a drop of rain, cool and a light breeze at night… fantastic
“get used to it… only going to get colder and wetter going forward”
Yeah, and Nevada is only going to get drier and see more wildfires.
Pick your poison.
Chicago and other parts of the Midwest are actually pretty well situated for climate change. And we’ve got all the fresh water.
“All winter I waited for warmth and sun, and now for every warm sunny day we get five like this: 50s and foggy/wet. I’m ready to move.”
Don’t move to the Bay Area Dan #2. The entire summer is like this in San Francisco or along the coast. Cold, foggy. You wear winter coats. Hats and gloves in July. You can’t see the 4th of July fireworks!
Stay away from the California coast. Lol.
The weather was one of the reasons I moved. I hated the cold, dreary, foggy summers. It lasts for about 4 months. Ugh.
I love it – – bit of a multi-modal commute to get to the loop however. My usual comment for nice places in this area applies: If your kid gets into Northside College Prep, then this would be a great buy. Instead of paying private school tuition however you will have a semi-sucky commute.
Can someone help me understand why there are Flor carpet squares in the Kitchen….like in the area where you cook? This seems potentially gross…and maybe it is concealing some damage of some sort?
“Yeah, and Nevada is only going to get drier and see more wildfires.
Pick your poison.
Chicago and other parts of the Midwest are actually pretty well situated for climate change. And we’ve got all the fresh water.”
nah we’re going to get more moisture as well, and yeah lake tahoe is right there full of fresh potable water that isn’t being dumped full of sewage by Indiana oil refineries
Chicago will wind up under a glacier or underwater if this shit keeps up
A few feet of rise in Lake Michigan would put a whole of Chicago underwater. It would probably flood a good portion of downstate Illinois too. I think Lake Michigan is high about 2 feet right now. Any more rise and they will probably send some through the locks and down the Chicago River and Illinois canal.
Lake Michigan water levels on pace to reach record high in June:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-lake-michigan-record-lake-level-june-forecast-summer-20190617-story.html
Duluth is marketing themselves as a haven from sea level rise and global warming, though how many takers there will be, time will tell.
Lake water won’t get sent through the locks the gulf, it’ll go down the Detroit river to the lower lakes and Saint Lawrence. It is crazy high right now – can’t remember it being this high, even in the 70’s (which I don’t remember that well). People along the lake in Indiana and Michigan are worried about lakefront property like they were back then.
“Chicago will wind up under a glacier or underwater if this shit keeps up”
Nope. But keep being you Sonies.
oh yeah I forgot the science is settled… lmao
never mind the extended solar minima we are headed towards in the next 20 years
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/7122/chilly-temperatures-during-the-maunder-minimum
‘A few feet of rise in Lake Michigan would put a whole of Chicago underwater. It would probably flood a good portion of downstate Illinois too. I think Lake Michigan is high about 2 feet right now. Any more rise and they will probably send some through the locks and down the Chicago River and Illinois canal’.
Clearly someone with extensive hydraulic engineering expertise. Lake Michigan is controlled by a 1930 Supreme Court ruling that allows 3200 cubic feet per second ‘pumpage’ alotted to the State of Illinois. Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin are also alotted a certain pumpage rate, but since the man-made outlet of Lake Michigan is the Chicago Area Waterway system, those state’s pumpage rates are miniscule. There is also an allowance to increase that up to 3,680 cfs for ‘extreme hydrologic conditions’, but that window to increase pumpage closes in 2020.
3200 cubic feet per second is the equivalent of 2.06 billion gallons of water removed from Lake Michigan daily. The Lake holds an average of 1.3 x 10^15 gallons which means that by using the 3200 cfs pumpage rate and assuming no new inflows, Lake Michigan will drain completely in 1725 years.
We could also have another Carrington event – think of the fun that would be (all they had back then were telegraph wires catching afire).