Lincoln Park Vintage 4-Bedroom SFH with a Brick Coach House: 1936 N. Sedgwick
This 4-bedroom single family home at 1936 N. Sedgwick in Lincoln Park came on the market in September 2021.
Built in 1880, the main house and garage, which has a studio coach house apartment on the second level, are all brick.
It’s built on a standard Chicago lot measuring 24 x 124.
The listing says it’s a former 3-flat.
The first level has 12 foot ceilings, the living and dining rooms, as well as the kitchen and a family room.
The listing says the kitchen has been “newly updated” with Calcutta marble counter tops, all new hardware and backsplash, “refreshed” cabinets and Miele and Bosch appliances.
The family room off the kitchen has built-ins and skylights.
There’s a 2-story atrium with skylights and the original staircase.
The second level has 11 foot ceilings and 3 of the 4 bedrooms, including the primary suite.
The primary suite has an en suite bath and 4 closets. The other two bedrooms share a bath.
The fourth bedroom is in the lower level.
The listing says the lower level was renovated in 2018. It has 10 foot ceilings, all new hardwoods and a white marble bath.
There are built-ins and a wet bar in the recreation room.
The lower level also has an office/den or a possible fifth bedroom.
The house has central air.
It has a blue stone patio off the kitchen/family room which leads to the 2-car garage/coach house.
Above the garage is a studio apartment with a full kitchen and bath, its own furnace, in-unit washer/dryer and air conditioning.
The apartment has exposed timber ceilings and what looks like a skylight in one of the pictures.
The listing says you could put the apartment on Airbnb, have a full-time tenant, use it for in-laws or a nanny suite.
This house is in the Lincoln Elementary school district.
Listed at $1.775 million, that’s $275,000 above the 2015 sales price of $1.5 million.
Coach houses are coming back in vogue as the city is encouraging them again.
Is the coach house a big selling point of this property?
Theodora Jordan and Katie Cassman at Compass have the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
1936 N. Sedgwick: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, coach house, 2 car garage
- Sold in June 1998 for $895,000
- Sold in July 2015 for $1.5 million
- Originally listed in September 2021 for $1.775 million
- Currently still listed at $1.775 million
- Taxes of $21,797
- Central Air
- 2-car garage
- Coach house studio apartment with a/c, washer/dryer and furnace
- 3 fireplaces
- Bedroom #1: second floor
- Bedroom #2: second floor
- Bedroom #3: second floor
- Bedroom #4: lower level
- Office/den: lower level
- Recreation room: lower level
- Family room: main level
- Living room: main level
- Dining room: main level
- Kitchen: main level
The buyer of a house at this price point isn’t looking for $1k of income renting the coach house. Tho it’s a great nanny quarters
current owners did a VG job with updates. Kinda sad that they might break even after 6 years of ownership. The bedroom situation is not optimal. 3rd is tiny and have a Br right off the backdoor would be challenging w/ a teen
The P&I is basically the same as it was in ‘15
“The buyer of a house at this price point isn’t looking for $1k of income renting the coach house.”
Nor a bar directly across the street.
Otherwise this place is pretty sweet.
“The buyer of a house at this price point isn’t looking for $1k of income renting the coach house.”
FWIW, I know 2 people with $million+ homes with coach house and they rent them out.
“Nor a bar directly across the street.”
Something new moved in? Haven’t been by there too recently.
Aren’t Sedgwick’s, Stanleys and Gamekeepers all currently sitting empty?
The “kid” bedroom situation is pretty challenging, especially with the overflow closet built-in in the one to the right. But there’s enough space for a bed and a desk, so…
“I know 2 people with $million+ homes with coach house and they rent them out”
Are they studio coaches like this one, or are they more like $2500+/mo rentals?
I bet you could get closer to $2k per month..definitely north of $1500. Some people just love being in a freestanding house and there aren’t that many of them.
“I bet you could get closer to $2k per month..definitely north of $1500.”
Especially if it is not separately metered. Gas is almost certainly not.
This one is a beautiful combination of 19th century and modern. The exterior appears to have been perfectly maintained. I like almost everything about it, though the bedrooms seem tight (as you’d expect with this era of home).
Great location, though being on Sedgwick means a bit more traffic than other streets nearby.
If I had the money and was raising a family in LP, this would be high on my list. Unfortunately, don’t have the money and my kids are grown. A big townhome isn’t going to be one of those things I get to do in life.
“FWIW, I know 2 people with $million+ homes with coach house and they rent them out.”
Makes sense to me. Who wouldn’t want some extra income?
Lol.
“Nor a bar directly across the street.”
No bar anonny. As others have said, all the bars on the corner of that intersection are closed. I hope something goes in there, but what?
And it’s not across the street. I’d say it’s about halfway down the street. Not a big deal, frankly. It’s city living. There are going to be stores, restaurants, people walking around. And since it’s far down the street, you wouldn’t even notice it.
“No bar anonny. As others have said, all the bars on the corner of that intersection are closed. I hope something goes in there, but what?”
And it’s not across the street. I’d say it’s about halfway down the street. Not a big deal, frankly. It’s city living.”
Is the “Street View” function incorrect? Sure looks like it’s directly accross the street. And it being a currently failed bar probably doesn’t give prospective buyers much comfort. It’s a bad thing now, and if some quiet, high end restaurant doesn’t lease it, it may well get rented to a rowdy, pukey, pee in the directly-across-the-street-neighbor’s front yard sports joint. But hey, it’s only nearly $1.8 million with about $2k in taxes, so surely families will be in a bidding war this weekend for the place, right? City living and all.
“it may well get rented to a rowdy, pukey, pee in the directly-across-the-street-neighbor’s front yard sports joint.”
Unpossible. If it never happened at Halsted & Webster, it cant happen here
“But hey, it’s only nearly $1.8 million with about $2k in taxes, so surely families will be in a bidding war this weekend for the place, right? City living and all.”
YOLO Baby
Who has time to worry about things like that, capital appreciation, saving for retirement, etc Its all about LIVING THAT BIG CITY LIFE!
“Are they studio coaches like this one, or are they more like $2500+/mo rentals?”
I don’t know the details of the rentals but they’ve both said they do it to help offset their property taxes. One in is LP, the other Bucktown. If you have a coach house and don’t use it for a nanny then why not? Just do a good job finding decent tenants. Would seem like such a wasted opportunity to leave it empty.
“it’s not across the street”
What the actual fuck? The former Sedgwick’s was *exactly* across the street. Not merely the bar, but the main entrance to the bar. Dead on straight line.
Are you sure you live in Chicago?
“nearly $1.8 million with about $2k in taxes”
Will probably be nearly $3k/mo in taxes soon.
“The former Sedgwick’s was *exactly* across the street.”
All I saw were homes and apartment buildings there. Sorry.
All the shut restaurants were down on the corner and those remain shut.
The city is constantly changing anon(tfo).
“All I saw were homes and apartment buildings there. Sorry.
All the shut restaurants were down on the corner and those remain shut.”
Sedgwick’s is directly across the street and is shut down. I have MAGA relatives and late 1980s’ high school classmates to argue with on Facebook about objective reality and its impact on things. If someone says, “hey, the bar right across the street might hinder this house’s prospects, and the uncertainty related to the fact that it’s currently shut down doesn’t help,” and someone responds with, “no, it’s way down the street, and anyways that’s city living,” it’s like having a nurse’s assistant cousin state that she’s done enough research to quit her job over vax mandates or an uncle argue that the Jan 6 traitors were tourists. Is there no place safe from the insane gaslighting that’s taken hold of society?
“Is there no place safe from the insane gaslighting that’s taken hold of society?”
This level of BS is why I’ve started to believe that Sabrina and Hof are the same person/bot/collective.
“Sedgwick’s is directly across the street and is shut down.”
I stood across the street and took this picture. I guess I was standing right in front of it.
I honestly didn’t see and didn’t notice it. But I DID notice the others at the corner of Armitage/Sedgwick were shut. Must be REAL quiet and must look like the other apartments and houses on the street.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s something to worry about.
The real issue is if nothing goes into these places ever. They’ve been shut for several years now.
I did notice that the landlord of one of the buildings with the bar up the street had done some repairs on the apartments that are above it. Painting and such. Because you DO have to compete with all the new product that is out there in rentals. No one will put up with living in something substandard anymore.
“This level of BS is why I’ve started to believe that Sabrina and Hof are the same person/bot/collective.’
Sure Jan.
Sorry that I stood in front of some old bar that’s been shut down for years and didn’t notice it.
Also, looks like Sedgwick’s has been shut for 3 years (going on 4 in 2022)? Is that right?
My god.
The city is constantly changing people. Just because you lived in a neighborhood 10 years ago doesn’t mean it’s the same today.
“The city is constantly changing people. Just because you lived in a neighborhood 10 years ago doesn’t mean it’s the same today.”
How is having a place sit vacant for nearly 4 years constant change?
“the landlord of one of the buildings with the bar up the street”
What “up the street”? There’s the building Sedgwick’s was in directly across the street, and next door, the building that Stanley’s (also pre-pandemic closure) was in. If the upper floors of Stanley’s are getting reno’d into nice apartments, it would be a boon to that intersection, whatever happens to the mainfloor space.
Why the bad gaslighting? It’s probably more likely to be a real estate office, or maybe a restaurant if/when it rents, but the ex-bar is plainly directly across the street.
“How is having a place sit vacant for nearly 4 years constant change?”
Building did sell last year for the first time since the early-70s:
https://rejournals.com/interra-realty-brokers-4-million-sale-of-mixed-use-asset-in-chicagos-old-town-triangle/
And it appears they reno’d the apartments as they rolled over. Found a listing from the spring for an updated 2/2 (#2a) for $2,795.
Zoning and unit count is such that they’d need a variance, or zoning change, to convert the commercial to apartments. Probably not worth it.
The rentals above (former) stanley’s are still pretty basic:
https://www.apartmenthomeliving.com/apartment-finder/1968-N-Lincoln-Ave-Chicago-IL-60614-17247209
with prices that reflect that.
“Why the bad gaslighting? It’s probably more likely to be a real estate office, or maybe a restaurant if/when it rents, but the ex-bar is plainly directly across the street.”
Again, I stood there and I didn’t even notice it. It’s not gaslighting if the bar/restaurant no longer exists. So, yeah, it’s NOT an issue. In fact, for these sellers, it was closed for longer than it was open when they lived there.
Things change. Locations go in and out of fashion. If it was such a great location, something would have gone in there years ago (pre-pandemic, at least.) And now, with all the empty spaces, it’s not going to happen for even longer. There are empty restaurant/bar spaces all over the place in Lincoln Park including just steps away from this place.
All I know is that the other building down the street was painted and looked nicer than I recalled it looking the last time I was around that neighborhood. I don’t know if they’re doing anything in the interiors, but the rental market is very competitive. Renovate or die.
“How is having a place sit vacant for nearly 4 years constant change?”
Going out of business would normally be “change” anonny.
A LOT has changed in Chicago in the last few years. The pandemic sped up the closure of a lot of older bars. I’m kind of surprised that some of the old bars on Division, like Mothers, survived when those like Gamechangers couldn’t make it.
“Going out of business would normally be “change” anonny.”
The change happened when they went out of business. There’s been no change in nearly 4 years. A long dormant restaurant or retail space in an otherwise residential area is not change, it is blight. It is also uncertainty. I probably wouldn’t rent a retail or restaurant space that is near a space that’s been dormant for four years (unless it was a very good deal, and I had a relatively good sense as to what might – might – move into the dormant space), and I certainly wouldn’t buy a nearly $1.8 million home across the street from one. Do you talk much with commercial brokers and prospective tenants of retail/restaurant spaces? Developers? Their investors and lenders? I do. Long-dormant commercial space IS an issue.
“Because you DO have to compete with all the new product that is out there in rentals. No one will put up with living in something substandard anymore.”
This is still DePaul rental land. Plenty of students on a budget willing to pay 85% of market value and live in buildings that haven’t been updated since 1970’s.
“A long dormant restaurant or retail space in an otherwise residential area is not change, it is blight.”
All of Lincoln Park is blighted then anonny. There are areas where the retail has been empty for years and years, especially on Clark.
And Trump Tower is blight. They haven’t had ANY retail in the lower level for 13 years.
A third of the Mag Mile is empty. The old Apple store has been empty for YEARS.
Blight. Blight. Blight.
I will delete comments where people are abusive towards me.
I’m tired of it.
Grow up.
Couldn’t you have just said something like:
“Huh, didn’t notice it bc there’s no bar there now, but guess it was”?
Why *insist* that it’s “down the street” when it was–truly–directly across?
“A third of the Mag Mile is empty. The old Apple store has been empty for YEARS.
Blight. Blight. Blight.”
Shootings nearly every weekend too–goes hand in hand, right?
“Why *insist* that it’s “down the street” when it was–truly–directly across?”
Because the bars ARE down the street. Literally. And those are the ones I saw closed that looked like bars. So when everyone was saying there was one directly across the street, well, I never saw it. And, it turns out, it’s been closed for 3 years now so, yeah, that’s why I didn’t even notice it. I saw apartments and other homes there and that was it.
“Shootings nearly every weekend too–goes hand in hand, right?”
There’s shootings every weekend on the Mag Mile?
That’s new.
Last I heard, those in Bucktown and Wicker Park were having safety marches and declaring changes from their Alderman and the police. I think there’s other areas that are having issues other than just the Mag Mile.
“Because the bars ARE down the street.”
Oh, come on.
What’s down the street?
So, which building was this:
“All I know is that the other building down the street was painted and looked nicer”
Because I was over there this weekend, and the former Stanleys (the building that is arguably “down the street”) looked *exactly the same* as it has since the signage came down about 3 years ago.
“Because I was over there this weekend, and the former Stanleys (the building that is arguably “down the street”) looked *exactly the same* as it has since the signage came down about 3 years ago.”
Prepare to be deleted…
If you’re looking for something about the city that will never change – Aldermanic power + greedy landlords at play here. Rumor is the now yuck demographic of residents in the area did not like the “dive bars” and complained to the Alderwoman about it. Alderwoman + Landlords worked together to squeeze out these bars with the “promise” of higher-end, higher-rent paying replacement tenants. Now they all sit empty.
“Rumor is the now yuck demographic of residents in the area did not like the “dive bars” and complained to the Alderwoman about it.”
Why on earth would they complain? They were all down the street, of no impact at all to anyone other than renters who knew what they were getting into.
because most north siders are very provincial and myopic
but you already knew that
So I checked out again, and still cannot figure out which building was referred to as:
“other building down the street was painted and looked nicer”
Any ideas?
Imagination Land?
Happened to drive by here last night in the rain. Former Stanley’s building still looks exactly the same.