Full Of Vintage Charm For Under $300,000: 9046 S. Hamilton in Beverly Hills
This 4-bedroom single family home at 9046 S. Hamilton in the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Beverly came on the market in June 2012.
Yes, it’s actually called “Beverly Hills” and the neighborhood has lovely signs telling you so.
Built in 1924 on an oversized lot of 52×133, the listing calls the architecture style “English”.
It has some of its vintage features intact including stained glass windows, crown molding and hardwood floors.
It has a full, unfinished basement and the listing says it has a new drain tile and sump.
2 of the bedrooms are on the main level along with a full bathroom and 2 are on the second level also with a full bathroom. There is also another room on the second level which is tandem to one of the bedrooms.
There’s no central air and there’s just a one car garage.
At what price will someone take a chance on this house?
Cheryl Cronin at Prudential Biros Real Estate has the listing. See the pictures here.
9046 S. Hamilton: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1925 square feet, 1 car garage
- I couldn’t find any prior sale (estate sale, perhaps?)
- Originally listed in June 2012 for $305,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $295,000
- Taxes of $3581
- No central air
- Fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 11×14 (main level)
- Bedroom #2: 10×11 (main level)
- Bedroom #3: 13×15 (second level)
- Bedroom #4: 11×14 (second level)
Beautiful house…someone with some vision and some money set aside for renovations could turn this into a gem.
“North Beverly setting”
Does anyone have any opinions about North versus South Beverly, etc.?
Place has nice “bones” but seems overpriced for the area given its size and the amount of work needed.
North Beverly, north of 95th, is a lovely area. It is more secluded with less thru traffic due to cul-de-sacs at 95th and the Dan Ryan woods. You get so much for your money in Beverly.
“Place has nice “bones” but seems overpriced for the area given its size and the amount of work needed.”
Serious question: so then if you could “move” this house to Lakeview or North Center or [Your choice neighborhood] wouldn’t this same house in this same condition cost much much more and you’d still have to do the same amount of work?
Cute! It could use some TLC, esp. in expensive areas like the kitchen and bathrooms. Beverly is so charming, but the surrounding areas… not so much, and there’s just not much to do there. It’s a hard sell for a lot of people who would otherwise love this house (like me).
Icarus — of course it would cost *much* more in Lakeview/Lincoln Square/North Center!
“so then if you could “move” this house to Lakeview or North Center or [Your choice neighborhood] wouldn’t this same house in this same condition cost much much more and you’d still have to do the same amount of work?”
Are we also going to pretend it got re-oriented so it’s on a 25′ lot? Or are you retaining the double lot?
Because if you’re retaining the 50′ lot, and moving it to the northside, east of the river, you’d then have to compete with people looking to tear it down. I can think of many places in the city where that 50′ lot would fetch $600k+ *tomorrow* as a building site. And, if it could be legally split into two lots, $800k.
Nice to see a charming house intact. Does need some work and care and I do think at least 60K too high
Seriously, have you folks driven to and from Beverly Hills? It’s pretty sketchy. No Whole Foods in Beverly, not very many restaurants or bars, public schools aren’t very good (Morgan Park Academy is an good, but pricey). I rarely see my friends who live in Beverly b/c they’re slaves to the Metra schedule during the week and don’t like driving around the south side at night, and none of us like the Dan Ryan.
Beverly seems like a great place to live (beautiful older homes, tree-lined streets, Rainbow Cone, and many long-time residents who really love and know the history of the area) if you have friends and family there, if you’re homebodies, if you’re willing to cough up for private school, and if you don’t expect posh or trendy amenities. I’d prefer Ravenswood Manor, with similar homes at higher prices, but greater convenience and easier access to city amenities.
Beverly might as well be in Indiana. No one is coming to visit you.
Yeah Beverly is very cliquey if you aren’t “from” there you might have a hard time, especially if you aren’t of the white irish or italian decent and went to the local catholic schools
Also its kind of dumpy and the bar/restaurant scene is a joke
Its close, and I don’t exactly know of any communities that put out welcome mats for minorities
Agree it needs TLC but a good looking house at a low price with possibilities.
By the way, I think there’s a stained glass window in the dining room. It was hard to tell from the listing photos, however. 🙂
Lol, no whole foods=no sale!!! Come on…
Just as well, Beverly can remain a hidden gem. Schools are great though, your wrong about that.
“Also its kind of dumpy and the bar/restaurant scene is a joke.”
When you have children, your priorities change. You go to the ice cream shop on the weekends (of which they have a very famous one in Beverly.) You barbecue in the backyard with the neighbors. Honestly, no one I know with kids hangs out in bars. So who cares if there are any nearby?
No one is saying a 22 year old would move to Beverly tomorrow. But plenty of families would.
“Beverly might as well be in Indiana. No one is coming to visit you.”
Is anyone visiting you in Bowmanville? What about in Norwood Park or Edison Park? What about in Galewood? If your friends live in River North are they cruising down North Avenue to visit you on a Saturday night in Galewood? I think not. You create your own social networks.
“I’d prefer Ravenswood Manor, with similar homes at higher prices, but greater convenience and easier access to city amenities.”
Lots are smaller and the prices are double in Ravenswood Manor.
“No Whole Foods in Beverly.”
OMG! Not that.
Do you know that Beverly actually has the highest median salary of any neighborhood in the city of Chicago? (or maybe it was “average” salary- I can’t remember which.) This was talked about when the neighborhood was trying to get a Starbucks to open there years ago (which took forever to happen, actually.) They wanted to know why Starbucks couldn’t bother itself with the most money-ed area of the city.
People that live in the gz are way more likely to visit their old friends in EP than in Beverly. way less stigma to the NW side than the south side unless you grew up in that area. To many transplants and geographically ignorant going past the sloop is dangerous.
I’m not suggesting that things are perfect on the NW side but taking a ride on the blue line to EP is not the same experience as a ride to the 95th st station. For many people living in the gz once they pass The White Sox stop it will be a much different experience then a ride out to O’Hare.
You don’t take the red line to 95th to get to Beverly. You take the Rock Island Metra which is a far more pleasant experience.
Ah yes, Whole Foods, where ecology-minded folks go shopping…in their gas-guzzling SUVs. Why is it that I never see anyone disembarking from a bus or L to go to Whole Paycheck? Give me Jewel or Dominicks any day. And I believe there is one of the former near the 95th/Western shopping district.
“Ah yes, Whole Foods, where ecology-minded folks go shopping…in their gas-guzzling SUVs. Why is it that I never see anyone disembarking from a bus or L to go to Whole Paycheck? ”
Hmmm… maybe because so many Whole Foods customers in the city simply walk there? That’s what I did for years, both in Chicago and Madison!
“You take the Rock Island Metra which is a far more pleasant experience.”
Even worse. No one is getting on the damn Metra.
“Schools are great though, your wrong about that.”
Redo this sentence. PRIVATE schools are great. Public – not so much.
And I do like the sound of “hidden gem”
You certainly are hidden from the rest of Chicago, and nobody is gonna find you.
“Honestly, no one I know with kids hangs out in bars. So who cares if there are any nearby?”
You used proximity to “the clubs” as a reason that the Berenice house was preferable to the houses in Bell west of Western.
“You used proximity to “the clubs” as a reason that the Berenice house was preferable to the houses in Bell west of Western”
In what Universe have you experienced poster consistency on Crib Chatter?
“You used proximity to “the clubs” as a reason that the Berenice house was preferable to the houses in Bell west of Western.”
No I didn’t. I probably said you could actually walk to restaurants and other things if you’re east of Western. (Who uses the word “clubs”???) It’s a MUCH better location to be east of Western in North Center. You might actually partake in city life (instead of driving everywhere) if you did so.
But I don’t see many of those who live on Berenice with kids hanging out in the BARS on a regular basis. They’ll go to the restaurants on Lincoln though.
“No I didn’t. I probably said you could actually walk to restaurants and other things if you’re east of Western. (Who uses the word “clubs”???)”
Someone typing under your name did. Sabrina (June 19, 2012, 8:31 am) wrote:
“You’re not walking to restaurants/Trader Joes/clubs/the El etc. from those other locations.”
I posed the question:
“What’s the overlap of parents looking to be in Bell and looking to be in (short) walking distance of “clubs”?”
I have a friend who lives in Beverly and has told me numerous time how great the PUBLIC schools are. Yes this is 2nd hand info but there are a LOT of kids down there and they attend these schools. Sutherland, which serves central Beverly, is great and is one of the few schools that offers French rather than Spanish. They use something called the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, and I know parents are very happy with it. Clissold is Montessori (used to be only up to a certain age but starting this year they are going totally Montessori), and I personally know people who went there and now have kids there and again, are very happy with it. The school that serves N. Beverly (Kellogg) is evidently less desirable (more low income students-which is odd because it’s in the area of Beverly with the more expensive homes), but my friend seems to think it’s heading in the right direction.
We have done a quite a bit of research on schools down there! So to say they aren’t good is simply not true.
I think “clubs” is short for “dance clubs” which is a euphenism for “discos.” (Most “clubs” downtown and in River North, etc. have “star” dj’s providing the entertainment.)
“I think “clubs” is short for “dance clubs” which is a euphenism for “discos.” (Most “clubs” downtown and in River North, etc. have “star” dj’s providing the entertainment.)”
Who needed Lassie to attempt to define this? Not me.
Would have been funnier if lassie defined clubs in dog speak “rwwwwarl grrrr ruff ruff ruff grrrrrr
I strongly disagree w/ NYC and Java: First there are excellent nearby grocers: County Fair on 108th & Western & Pete’s on 95th in Evergreen Park come to mind (w/Meijer & Menards under construction @ 93rd and Western and Walmart/ Sam’s at 95th & Western. Metra/ fka Rock Island is a great commute to downtown and is very very popular with Beverly commuters. And while local public high schools are suspect local CPS grammar schools are great: Kellogg (N. Beverly), Sutherland (central Beverly), Clissold (south Beverly/ Morgan Park) & also Vanderpoel magnet (E. Beverly) & Keller magnet (W Beverly). There are lots of bar and restaurant options nearby but they trend more middle middling than I find near downtown or near north. But those destinations are accessible from Beverly as are southwest suburban options.
I prefer Old Norwood vs Beverly. Beverly is nice but surrounded by absolute crap
what’s the better country club for Chicagoans (not suburban clubs) to have a membership, Ridgemoor or Beverly?
OK Southbound. You kind of proved my point. Beverly is like a shitty suburb. Wow, grocery stores and the Metra. And crap schools. Kellogg and Sutherland are the 2 main elementary school options, and they are not rated well compared to the nicer nabes on the northside. But you are right; when that Menard’s gets built. yipee.
NYC I believe your point is that you, like most people I have run into from NYC, are an obnoxious elitist condescending d-bag. While I do not claim to be an expert on CPS grammar schools here is a quote I found by googling your assertion from CPS obsessed:
“As a resident of the Beverly area, and a CPS teacher , I can tell you that Kellogg is not a magnet school, but is a great little gem. All of our area schools, Sutherland, Clissold, Kellogg ,Mt. Greenwood and Cassell (the latter 2 located in Mt. Greenwood due West of Beverly) have very good scores and caring and supportive teachers and administration. There are many local students who attend Lenart or Annie Keller gifted schools.
Options are limited for high school. Morgan Park is our local high school, and as a parent, I chose not to send my children there, and opted for the rather expensive local Catholic Schools. The Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences (Mt. Greenwood) will be changing their open enrollment from 40% neighborhood students to 50% in the 2012-2013 school year.
The Beverly neighborhood is a very close knit community with a small town feel. It is my biased opinion that our community is worth looking into.”
Don’t let the plane door hit your a– when you head back east to civilization as you define it.
Just loved this discussion. I don’t live in Beverly but have sold houses in North and South Beverly. Also have friends who live there and wouldn’t live anywhere else. Thanks for mentioning Lennart, the second or third best elementary school in the state.
Welcome to the discussion marie. Please ignore the resident know nothings who do not let their lack of any relevant info stop themselves from posting. I lived in Beverly a while ago and was very pleased with the education and introduction to kids from quite different backgrounds that my kids received at Keller
” Lennart, the second or third best elementary school in the state.”
Hardehar har har. Har.
I like Marie. She’s hilarious!
“Just loved this discussion. I don’t live in Beverly but have sold houses in North and South Beverly. Also have friends who live there and wouldn’t live anywhere else.”
Ever think that some deep “White Sox” fan loyalties are just misdirected? a proxy for something else? God can only imagine if they ever wake up and figure out what it is they really stand for, or oppose.
Lenart Gifted Center has never been in Beverly. It was on 84th and Kolin when I attended. Now it’s in Chatham. Beverly elementary schools are great and do an excellent job of prepping students for selective enrollment options.