Do You Like Stately? 2340 N. Lincoln Park West in Lincoln Park
There is a lot of wood paneling in this 2-bedroom vintage unit at 2340 N. Lincoln Park West in Lincoln Park. The building was built in 1921 and only has 7 units.
Here’s the listing:
ELEGANT ONE OF A KIND VINTAGE HOME IN PRIME LINCOLN PARK.RICH MAHOGANY PANELED 36 FT LIV/DR W/DRAMATIC WBFP AND HUGE BAY WINDOW OVERLOOKING PARK & CONSERVATORY.LAVISHLY RESTORED:NEW 200 AMP ELECT,A/C,PLUMBING,WOOD FLRS,WASHER/DRYER.
NEW CUSTOM KITCH/BATHS WITH SUB ZERO,CORIAN,MORE!LARGE MASTER SUITE W/WALK-IN CLOSET.2ND BR W/ELABORATE OFFICE BUILT-INS.BLDG HAS ROOFTOP DECK W/VIEWS,GARAGE PKG INCL. PLUS GUEST PARKING!!
Residential Marketing Group, Ltd. has the listing. See more pictures here. (It looks like the kitchen has a white stove in the pictures.)
Unit #202: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1600 square feet
- Sold in November 2000 for $480,000
- Sold in July 2004 for $500,000
- Currently listed for $776,500 (parking included)
- Assessments of $924 a month
- Taxes of $6420
- Space pac cooling
The realtor should be shot for taking such crappy photos. Probably a friend or a relative. How do people select their realtors?
Maybe by who has the most megapixels on their cell phone camera??
Damn I listed myself and at least spent a few hours playing around on photoshop. Of course playing on photoshop when you are really really high is awesome!!
OK, so the bathrooms look outdated and aside from the listing, how can you tell the kitchen is remodeled? It doesn’t look like it in the photo.
IB, thumbs-up for using the words “photoshop” and “really really high” in the same sentence 🙂
This place doesn’t look all that great from the photos. I imagine the crazy markup in price from the previous 2004 sale price is because of the “lavish” renovations. Also, anyone know what’s included with those assessments?
The photos are pretty bad…. There was a flash involved, so it was one step up from a cell phone… but amateur shots with a point and shoot just don’t cut it… With that price point (which I think is about $150k too high), it would be money well spent to hire a professional interiors photographer to maximize the beauty of this home (and minimize the mediocre furniture). It would also help to tuck in the bedspread before taking the shot.
Presentation is everything in this market, isn’t it?
And I agree with you Streeterville Realtor- from the one picture of the kitchen- it doesn’t look to be renovated much at all. Why put in a subzero refrigerator and keep a white G/E stove?
muy horible
The lighting and staging look like a studio set for a Days of Our Lives episode. Depressing…
John999,
I can also use running, eating, reading, cooking,(notice 2 things with food already) shopping, sex, biking (what do you think I am carrying in that little Trek underseat pack) and many other words that I can’t remember for some reason in the same sentence with the word high 🙂
All the best!!
P.S. I hate sub-zero. If you don’t remove the grill and vacuum out the damn compressor every year the damn thing blows up on you. Good lord knows how they became such a status thing. Run from those things!!
“Good lord knows how [sub-zero] became such a status thing.”
Duh, they’re really expensive. And those rich people have them (or so someone told me–I don’t actually know any rich people). Isn’t status all about having the most expensive toys?
Also, on “why the white stove”, haven’t we heard enough on here that stainless is D. U. N. done? Maybe thet’re just trend-forward with the white. No one has a plausible answer for what will replace stainless as the preferred mid-upper appliance choice.
Ew, what is this place, 1700’s France?
“No one has a plausible answer for what will replace stainless as the preferred mid-upper appliance choice.’
I want some color! Seafoam green, or baby blue for example. And then it’ll all look as hideous as avocado and harvest gold looks now. :-p
I don’t know what it is with “vintage” or “stately” places that causes their assessments to be beyond ridiculous but count me out. Sorry but that crown molding isn’t worth 1k/month even if you can afford the mortgage.
Also Looper some cell phone cameras (like mine) have a faux flash: its basically a bright white LED that lights up. Definitely could be the case here.
In a place of this vintage I’d expect a formal dining room, I wonder if that Master Bedroom was it originally and the apartment was split at some point. Those picture’s don’t do it justice unless there are flaws, but they don’t look artful enough to be concealing anything.
I’ll have to find a link to some 70s Swedish appliance colors, they were quite something. A deep hunterish green was very hot and a burnt oranagesque red was also in vogue – but bolder than their American counterpoints. They were mostly hauled to the dump in the early 80s when white came back when IKEA brought it back with a vengeance.
I think a lot of the potential buyers for this place might be older and they aren’t partial to stainless; “it’s hard to keep clean”.
nd–I have a exactly such a burnt orangish red range in my kitchen, from at LEAST the 1970’s if not before. Gotta get rid of that thing… I just hate getting rid of things that actually work. I was very grateful last week when the door of my bisque refrigerator fell off, enabling me to buy a new one. Not bisque, natch. 🙂
anon.. I assumed people saw them in industrial kitchens and ran with it. But yes.. tell a rich person it is the most expensive and they will usually bite. Nouveau will bite 99% of the time. Back to the LV bags again.
I also like stainless appliances… I am so 2006 still, I guess.
“people saw them in industrial kitchens and ran with it”
That too, of course.
I also like the stainless–especially the non-magnetic ones, which keeps it decluttered. The basement fridge (aka the Beer Fridge) is teh home to the magnets and whatnot.
Ck out the ranges by Bertazzoni – they just introduced in the states and have a stainless model but also have amazing, gorgeous colors. Also, the price point is excellent because they are trying to build US Market share.