Forget Alta Vista: Buy This 3-Bedroom Vintage Rowhouse at 1828 W. Cornelia in Roscoe Village Instead
We chatter a lot about the historic rowhouses on Alta Vista Terrace in Wrigleyville in Lakeview but those aren’t the only game in town if you’re a vintage rowhouse lover.
This 3-bedroom rowhouse at 1828 W. Cornelia in the Roscoe Village neighborhood of North Center came on the market in February 2012.
Built in 1894, the 2600 square foot rowhouse has three stories and an unfinished basement.
It is on a 20×120 lot, which is bigger than those on Alta Vista, and allows for a 2-car garage plus backyard decks.
This rowhouse has both a lower deck off the kitchen/breakfast room and an upper deck off the master suite.
The third floor is the master suite which also has 6 skylights.
The kitchen has granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.
The listing says the rowhouse was updated in 2002/2003 (so about 10 years ago.)
Yes- that’s the Brown line El tracks a few doors to the east.
The rowhouse has been reduced $30,900 since February.
Do you get more bang for your buck outside of historic Alta Vista?
Theodore Krug at Coldwell Banker has the listing. See the pictures here.
1828 W. Cornelia: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2600 square feet, 2 car garage
- Prior sale was before 2002 (no price listed- looks like long term owner)
- Originally listed in February 2012 for $749,900
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $719,000
- Taxes of $7849
- Central Air
- Unfinished basement
- Bedroom #1: 16×12 (third floor)
- Bedroom #2: 17×14 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 14×12 (second floor)
- Den: 11×11 (second floor)
- Laundry room: 8×7 (second floor)
Very nice tile work in the bathrooms. I need to find a tile guy who can do that kind of work! Pretty much have travertine put it in all my units.
Yes, a lot of work was put into this house, but it is disconcerting that here are prairie style windows, brick walls, and colonial style stairs in a victorian.
“Very nice tile work in the bathrooms.”
I wouldn’t buy this place mainly because of the bathrooms
agree with DD – I love prairie style architecture, but the windows are really jarring (and $$ to replace, particularly tough to swallow if only for aesthetic reasons)
A vintage lover’s wet dream
“A vintage lover’s wet dream”
Really? I see very little “vintage” in the interior. And, as noted above, very mishmash, so even reasonable repro faux-vintage has been misused.
Prefer the streetscape on Eddy, as there are rows (tho non-contuous) on both sides. Also a decent row on Newport in the 1900 block.
“Very little vintage in the interior” is right. The decaying wooden deck, however, is very vintage…
I’m not an exposed brick fan, so that kills it for me. Also, too near a very noisy part of the L. But it’s close to the heart of Roscoe Village, which is in advantage.
that wood trip is ugly and the lack of crown molding is surprising with a rowhouse with this price tag
For this location and price-point, a buyer will expect a turn-key home. Here the gut rehab is a mishmash of hybrid home-improvement store styles (“prairie”, “exposed brick loft”, “french provincial” kitchen, etc) for what is essentially a victorian rowhouse sans vintage detail. Layout is a series of ill-defined dark little rooms, rather than the open floor plan expected when the original walls are removed. Good curb appeal.
What an ugly mess. It will be 300K to “restore it” to a reasonable interior or more to gut and make uber contemporary. This is so sad. I can’t see more than 500K.