Did You Go to Open House Chicago Last Weekend? 2601 W. Lunt in Indian Boundary Park
This 5-bedroom bungalow at 2601 W. Lunt in the Indian Boundary Park neighborhood of West Ridge came on the market in August 2016.
Built in 1926, it is on an extra large 56×124 corner lot diagonally across the street from the Indian Boundary Park.
Several neighborhood buildings were on the recent Open House Chicago map, including the Indian Boundary Park cultural center.
Built in 1929, 3 years after this house across the street, in the Tudor Revival style, it was nearly destroyed in a fire in 2012 but has now been restored.
Here’s an interior picture of that beautiful building.
This house also has beamed ceilings just like the cultural center.
The listing says there is a “new gourmet kitchen” with a 36 inch Wolf range, stainless steel appliances, 42 inch cabinets, granite counter tops and a farmhouse sink.
The basement has been waterproofed and there are new gutters.
It also has a landscaped back yard along with a 2-car garage.
There’s no central air, but the house has space pac cooling.
The house is listed for $550,000 and hasn’t reduced.
Is over $500,000 the new price point for this neighborhood in this hot market?
Denis Girard at Keller Williams Team Realty has the listing. See the pictures here.
2601 W. Lunt: 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in November 2009 for $373,000
- Originally listed in August 2016 for $550,000
- Still listed for $550,000
- Taxes of $6587
- No central air- but there’s space pac cooling
- Bedroom #1: 15×14 (main level)
- Bedroom #2: 15×13 (main level)
- Bedroom #3: 19×13 (second level)
- Bedroom #4: 14×12 (second level)
- Bedroom #5: 12×10 (second level)
- Florida room: 15×9
What is space pac, if not central air? Seems like justt another type of central air to me.
Spacepac is like central air except it doesn’t use traditional HVAC duct work. It’s used for retrofittings. It also takes up a lot of room.
looks like the link for the pictures is missing/broken?
Cool. Another property in my hood.
I chatted a few times with one of the owners before they moved out of state and toured the house during the first open house weeks ago. The owners did some quality updating on the place during the ~7 years they lived there, with the most impressive being the immaculate Airoom kitchen. Other things I recall seeing on the list of updates includes the professional landscaping w/ brick paver walkway, new cedar fence, SpacePac, high efficiency boiler, chimney relining, etc. The property is pretty unique architecturally–haven’t seen anything quite like it anywhere else in the city–although interestingly the listing agent showed me a book during the open house from the 1920s on architectural styles of the period and this house is in it.
The house is spacious overall. Bathrooms weren’t original or modern–looked more 1950s to me. I think the property would have sold by now if the original windows got a little TLC and the interior freshly painted prior to listing. In general, though, I think it’s a pretty cool property that should sell over $500k (IMO).
BTW, the IBP cultural center had a fire back in 2012 (before I moved to the neighborhood). The building was restored although I heard that restoration is still being carried out on the original chandeliers–so the chandelier shown in Sabrina’s photo is just a temporarily place holder.
Here’s an article about the fire and restoration: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140102/west-rogers-park/indian-boundary-park-field-house-renovaiton-im-home-were-home
The big problem with IBP, as well as other beautiful neighborhoods on the northwest side, is its lack of quick public transportation to the Loop and suburbs. To get downtown you have to board the Lunt bus and change to the Metra at the station near Clark St. Not such a big deal in good weather, but murder in winter.
“To get downtown you have to board the Lunt bus and change to the Metra at the station near Clark St.”
You don’t *have* to take the bus. It’s less than a mile to the Metra station from IBP. A 15-20 minutes talk to the station paired with a 16-20 minute train ride and you’re looking at about 35-40 minutes downtown. Not significantly different total time to downtown compared to any other locations near the L. My door-to-door to downtown office from Logan was 35-40. Now, from IBP, it’s consistently 40. My commute now consists of more walking and less time on the train.
Typo in my post above I want to catch before I get called out on it. I meant to say that a 35-40 min commute to downtown isn’t significantly different than the commute time from *many* other locations near the L. Obviously, some L commutes are shorter/longer depending on proximity to L and number of stops to downtown, but I think 35-40 mins is pretty reasonable.