Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables: 4434 N. Tripp in Irving Park
This 4-bedroom American Four-Square at 4434 N. Tripp in Irving Park has several features that make it stand out from the pack.
The listing says it has an 800 square foot organic vegetable and herb landscape and it also has a 3-car garage/coach house.
The 1905 house is built on an oversized 175×50 lot.
3 out of the 4 bedrooms are on the second floor with the fourth on the third.
It looks like it has hardwood floors throughout the main floor.
The kitchen has white cabinets and appliances.
Ron Goldstein at Prudential Rubloff has the listing. See more pictures here.
4434 N. Tripp: 4 bedrooms, 3 full, 2 half baths, 3 car garage, no square footage listed
- Sold in April 1999 for $331,000
- Currently listed for $879,500
- Taxes of $6504
- Central Air
- 3-car parking in the coach house
- Bedroom #1: 13×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 15×8 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 10×8 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 10×10 (third floor)
The growth from 1999 to 2010 (based on pricing above) would be around 9%. That seems rather high, because it doesn’t look like they spent a lot of money on upgrades (based on the pictures and the wording used in the listing) and well – 9% CAGR is pretty f’ing good.
That being said, it looks like some of the other SFH listed in the area are for the same price, or higher.
So has the market for SFH in Irving Park really exploded this much over the last 11 years, or do most sellers have unrealistic valuation expectations?
“So has the market for SFH in Irving Park really exploded this much over the last 11 years, or do most sellers have unrealistic valuation expectations?”
A little from Column A, a little from Column B …
Also–*no* way that kitchen is un-reno’d since ’99, roof is newer than that, etc., etc. The listing description is minimalist and pretty much a waste (“carpe diem”? Really?) of the limited characters.
And this is not really even Irving Park, or even Old Irving, because it’s north of Montrose – so it’s techincally Mayfair which is Albany Park…
There’s a lot of overpriced inventory in the area. Just like everywhere else. It is a beautiful home. It’s just priced too high. It’s been listed on and off since Sep 02, 2008.
But you know, they can’t just give it away.
Is that an extra wide angle/distorted view of the kitchen? Or is the refrigerator some extra-wide, extra short model I’ve never seen before??!
The former….
mmmm Suzie’s beef
My aunt still lived in the area (mayfair) in 1999, and i dont recall this house being in this good of shape then, so i called her and told her to check her email. (wow old people and computers, not fun)
she said from the pics that back then no way was it as nice as it was now.
Groove fun Fact,
one of my babysitters as a child lived on the corner spitting distance from this place.
also there used to be a carpet place here and my pops pretty much carpeted his whole house with the scraps they didnt want.
sweet garage… i could live in there!
Yeah that garage is tits. I’d finish the upper level a lot better though.
That is one “trippy” family room/den in the coach house (attic?). Like the idea, but cooling it and heating it could be an adventure with the Benjamins.
Re: marketing. Are we entering a new era of full body shots of RE agents?
This home is from an era where old irving, mayfair, etc were some of the original suburbs of Chicago. They have large lots with large older homes.
Nice looking place. Fricking awesome garage. I gotta get out of Old Town and get me some space 🙁
Virtually all my loyola grads and peers from 10 years ago left the ‘green zone’ long ago for more space and cheaper city living.
Welcome to the real Chicago.
“hichow on June 28th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Nice looking place. Fricking awesome garage. I gotta get out of Old Town and get me some space :(“
Very cool place. I love these old houses, probably because I never see them here in the city.
Was in Denver a few months ago and there are thousands of these beautiful places. Really great idea in the carriage house and the bathroom that is open to the shower…in the hundreds of bathrooms I have seem, I haven’t seen one like that before.
“Really great idea in the carriage house and the bathroom that is open to the shower…in the hundreds of bathrooms I have seem, I haven’t seen one like that before.”
Do you specifically open to the tub, but otherwise closed up like that one, or open in general? b/c that very specific layout is new to me, but I’ve seen all sorts of open showers.
But there’s not even plumbing in this coach-house, right? Looks like roof’s not insulated, so I’d think / hope not.
This place is after my heart in a pretty big way. . . similar to casa de Square but I got no coach-house.
But the room sizes and floorplan would be a challenge for me, if the location wasn’t a dealbreaker (and it would be at this price)– with a lot this size, shame they didn’t take a few more feet to have bedroom’s wider than 8”. . . but of course then you don’t get the yard, and you certainly can’t have everything with the classic places.
Room sizes are all super-small in the older homes built in this area, usually victorian. There’s one home I saw that had four bedrooms and a full bath in less than 650 sq feet as an upstairs!!! I was in a home the other day and it was an older victorian and the living room barely fit the couch and TV and there was a weird small dining room off the living room and there was no room for a table in the kitchen. Very cool looking on the outside but barely functional in the inside.
Go to Lakewood Balmoral and you get similar houses, similar lots, similar prices, much better location (in my opinion).
“Virtually all my loyola grads and peers from 10 years ago left the ‘green zone’ long ago for more space and cheaper city living.
Welcome to the real Chicago. ”
I’m all for more bang for the buck/space if that’s your thing, but what exactly is it about the more far-flung neighborhoods that makes them the “real Chicago”?
ha, that’s what my dad said regarding why he and my mom moved to Lake View 40 + years ago when buying a home from Lincoln Park as renters – “more space” and “real Chicago.”
I would assume that they placed rigid insulation above the plywood decking.
@ Square D
“But there’s not even plumbing in this coach-house, right? Looks like roof’s not insulated, so I’d think / hope not.”
Normal people leading normal lives at a normal pace?
Not drunken egotistical 20 and early 30-somethings who think they’re going to be the next Gordon Gekko or Martha Stewart?
No 20/80 ratio of long-timers to transplants from Iowa/OSU/UofI/etc?
I keed, I keed, as I am a transplant living in a green zone hood as well and never really ventured outside of the greenzone much until the past year or so aside from my time on the south side. But in all honesty Chicago is huge and most people aren’t aware of that.
I dunno though HD talks about these other far flung leafy ‘hoods as if they are somehow different than their inner ring suburban counterparts. As from the label on the envelopes showing up at your house I’m not so sure..
Right, there’s obviously differences in demographics and neighborhood amenities and all of that, but it’s totally disingenuous to think that somehow some part of Chicago, for better or worse, is more “real” than another.
I agree with Barry. We are all “real Chicago”. Even the suburbs and all their citizens are part of the “real Chicago”.
There is no such thing as a true “native” of Chicago. People have always been moving to and from the City all the way back to DuSable. It’s just silly to complain about people from neighboring states settling in Chicago. That has always been happening.
It shouldn’t be difficult to hook-up water, sewer, electricity, natural gas, and cable to the coach house. It’s simply a matter of engineering and construction.
It would seem to be a waste not to utilize this space for a coach house rental.
“There is no such thing as a true “native” of Chicago.”
Well, depending on how pedantic you want to be about it, there are plenty of native Chicagoans. Yeah you’re not exactly going to find a lot of Potawatomi hanging around, but I’d be hard pressed to say that someone that wasn’t born here and/or lived here their whole life isn’t a native.
Actually, a very good friend of mine is (part) Potawatomi and he lives in East Village. Although his ancestral homeland is Southeast Michigan.
I will be open today, Tuesday, from 11-2 if any of the crib chatter devotees wish to stop
by and view this great property. I’ll be educating on organic gardening as well. Ron
Ron i may just take a long lunch and stop in!
I might even bring my cousin, she went to St. Ed’s back in the day.
“It would seem to be a waste not to utilize this space for a coach house rental.”
You’d never get it “legal”, so you’d have that issue. But it would be an awesome guest/inlaw/nanny suite.
@Anon
-‘legal’ is a harsh word, lets just say ‘nonconforming’. Plus you can advertise it a all utilities included since you wouldnt be able to get seperate meters installed. There’s always a positive.
“-’legal’ is a harsh word, lets just say ‘nonconforming’”
1. 5 v 13. I’m about brevity.
2. “legal”
3. At least I didn’t say illegal. Much harsher.
4. Who pays $800k+ for an SFH and *wants* a stranger living on the property. Besides OJ.
The coach house is kind of confusing. I spy a bunch of books and a TV/furniture, so one would assume there’s at least some form of climate control?