Entertainer’s Dream with an Indoor 40 Foot Lap Pool in Lakeview: 1225 W. George
This 5-bedroom single family home at 1225 W. George in Lakeview came on the market in April 2023.
The base of this home appears to be an old warehouse as the 1997 seller was Culinary Foods Inc. It was transformed into a single family home in 1999 by architect Larry Booth and has won architecture awards.
It’s on an irregular lot with 75 feet of frontage but measuring 75 x 102.4 x 87.99 x 56.4. It has a 2-car garage.
The listing says zoning will allow for additional livable space and a rooftop deck.
If this home looks familiar, that’s because we cribbed about it the last time it was on the market in 2016. As usual, most of you complained about the listing price, which was $3.995 million.
You can see that chatter here.
This home has loft-like features including concrete beamed ceilings and exposed brick walls. In the prior chatter, the listing said it had concrete slab floors with radiant heat.
The kitchen has modern cabinets, luxury stainless steel appliances and two islands with quartz countertops. One island seats 6.
The second floor has 4 out of the 5 bedrooms and they are all en suite.
The primary bedroom and one other bedroom have direct access to the 40 foot indoor lap pool and spa. The primary bedroom also has a private outdoor terrace.
The fifth bedroom is located on the main floor and has its own private entrance and kitchenette.
The house has central air.
It’s near the shops and restaurants of central Lakeview with easy access to north Lincoln Park.
Listed at $4.175 million, is this unique home the perfect private city retreat?
Ali Arciniega and Cynthia Prewett at Chicago Real Estate Artists have the listing. See the pictures here.
1225 W. George: 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 7400 square feet, single family home
- Sold in July 1997 for $114,500
- Then renovated into a single family home in 1999
- Sold in February 2017 for $3.6 million
- Originally listed in April 2023 for $4.175 million
- Currently still listed at $4.175 million
- Taxes are now $76,371 (they were $35,492 in September 2016)
- Central Air
- 2-car garage
- Studio with a kitchenette
- Bedroom #1: 22×19 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 16×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 16×9 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 23×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #5 (studio): 30×22 (main floor)
- Living room: 28×24 (main floor)
- Dining room: 23×21 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 21×14 (main floor)
- Foyer: 21×9 (main floor)
- Den: 13×13 (second floor)
- Laundry: 7×7 (second floor)
- Family room: 21×15 (main floor)
“is this unique home the perfect private city retreat?”
Nope. Zero curb appeal, lacks charm. Very good but not excellent location.
You can do a lot better with a $4M budget.
How long before those massive trees in the courtyard need to either be torn out and/or the patio needs to be redone due to proximity to the house and root growth? I would guess somewhere between 5-10 years, max.
My favorite feature is the non-draining pool deck.
“My favorite feature is the non-draining pool deck”
Thats really bad.
I like this place, very unique. Wish it had a floor plan and pics of the turret
Pool would be gone
No one is going to complain this time that $4 million is too much? I guess expectations for Lakeview have changed in the last 7 years. $4 million not that unusual in this neighborhood.
“My favorite feature is the non-draining pool deck.”
are you expecting a ton of water on the pool deck? it’s a lap pool. kids aren’t going to be doing cannon balls.
Pool is my favorite part. I swim once or twice a week.
“are you expecting a ton of water on the pool deck?”
It was a remark about the listing picture showing a puddle on the pool deck.
If you can’t easily get the water off for the photo shoot, what does that say about living with it every day?
“puddle on the pool deck.”
that water isn’t going to drain anywhere though. it’s just wet tile. kinda like when your kids get out of the bath/shower and there’s water on the floor. perhaps the floor is pitched towards the pool in case too much water is there.
“it’s just wet tile.”
It’s certainly more than “wet tile”–the pool deck has a significant dip in the middle.
If there were a puddle in the middle of the bathroom floor, visible in a listing photo, would that be concerning or nah?
It’s just a little water, in a wet room, that wasn’t worth cleaning up for the listing photos for a $4m house. Hardly worth making a joke about.
you’re overthinking the drain. if that amount of water shown was 15 feet away from the drain, it wouldn’t flow there. I’m sure the architect, plumber, and city inspectors were all wrong not putting in a drain.
“you’re overthinking the drain”
You’re overthinking my snide remark.
It was mainly a comment on the morons who took the picture AND included it in the listing.
If there were a puddle like that in the laundry room, would you be similarly blase?
Reduced to $4,090,000