Looking For A SFH With Character On A Historic Block? 651 W. Hutchinson in Buena Park
If you’re tired of all the new construction single family homes and yearn for a unique piece of the past, then look no further than this 3-bedroom at 651 W. Hutchinson in the Buena Park neighborhood of Uptown.
Hutchinson is a historic street with larger than standard Chicago lots.
This house was built in 1910 on an oversized lot measuring 50×108.
It has a 1-car attached garage and central air.
The listing says it has been “beautifully updated and restored.”
The kitchen has granite counter tops and a large kitchen island.
All 3 bedrooms are on the second floor including the large master suite, which has its own bath.
There is a lower level family room with a second kitchen.
The house has been reduced $310,000 to $1,065,000 since it came on the market in March 2011.
What price will it take to get this property sold?
Thomas Sillitti at Baird & Warner has the listing. See the pictures here.
651 W. Hutchinson: 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3820 square feet, 1 car garage
- Sold in August 1993 for $557,000
- Originally listed in March 2011 for $1.375 million
- Reduced several times
- Currently listed at $1.065 million
- Taxes of $17,076
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 24×14 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 14×11 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×9 (second floor)
Not a lot of people who will pay $1MM and $17K / yr in taxes to live in Uptown.
extra bd., walk to schools, walk to metra, 2 car garage: http://www.redfin.com/IL/Kenilworth/531-Kenilworth-Ave-60043/home/13782877
The Uptown argument is so old. If this were at the corner of Wilson and Broadway, it would be one thing, but it’s not. That’s like saying you wouldn’t live on Astor St. because it is 4 blocks east of Cabrini (when it was actually there).
The Kenilworth home is west of Green Bay Rd., ugh. (kidding)
Yeah this is far more like Lake view than Uptown I used to live nearby and walk my dogs down this street frequently and there are some amazing homes on this street
Kenilworth is going to offer less UN refugee-style beach than Montrose does. Your transportation options here are 151 bus? and a car on LSD. I just don’t see what a grown adult does around the subject location….hit the bars? frequent the dingy and grimy ethnic eateries? Most people who could afford this house are looking to preserve their health, not kill it. At least the NS has good public libraries.
Yeah but your neighbors in the kennel are likely to be insufferable haughty suburbanites
Transportation options – walkable to the Sheridan Red Line stop and the 144 bus on Marine (144 is express on LSD from Irving Park to Mich Ave)
Also, Montrose is my 2nd favorite Chicago beach. Not getting the hate.
“Not getting the hate.”
Litter, obesity, poverty, no commonality, nobody can communicate with each other (nor tries)….
I can’t say I’ve ever agreed with helmet before, but I would take the Kenilworth property over this one any day. This house is already far from downtown, so adding the extra commute time from Kenilworth would be “worth” it.
“Transportation options”
What about dining options? Ever been to that lame-O, dullard “sports bar” on Broadway (east side) just north of Irving? fry me up some chicken-wings, get them served by a pale, bad haircut waitress with a nose ring and 3 tattoos? Do you think the Mexican in the kitchen bothered to wash his hands before making that salad and touching your burger bun?
“I would take the Kenilworth property over this one any day”
Even with the tortoise-eating, ball-dribbling, bike-riding, teenagers hiding out in the trees all over the northshore?
anon(tfo) re: teens
there aren’t *that many* of them…they’re mostly well-behaved and silent around the grown-ups who buy million dollar homes. They don’t litter and they’re not unpleasing to look at, like the teeming multitudes at Montrose beach.
Seriously, look at some of the bodies at and around Montrose beach, amongst the UN-refugee crowd…..take a look, at the totally bizarre shapes, combos and contortions/proportions, I mean, I honestly cannot figure what kinds of food, or how much food intake one would need to get malformed as such. It’s just amazing. A biologist/dietician would love to study it if they could get away with it. Diabetes must be high, even in younger ones.
LOL helmet!
My favorite beach in chicago is actually Loyola beach, because its pretty much empty, and just mexican, no UN bullshit goin on there! LOL
the one thing that Montrose beach has though is the dog beach, that thing is sweet, is there on in the kennel?
“re: teens”
They also aren’t bouncing balls, while riding a bike, in a tree, at night, carrying a bowl of tortoise soup. It’s like you aren’t even paying attention.
If only I could just link to a Wiki page …
Loyola is actually #1 on my list as well, Sonies.
Too much hatred in helmhofer’s reply to comment upon. It’s too beautiful a day; I think I’ll bike up to Montrose beach.
Aside from the hatred, I agree with Helmet about the Kenilworth home being the better value. That said, I’ve always loved Hutchinson St., and it is more like “North Lakeview” than Uptown. Being close to Lincoln Park and the beach also helps the subject property, and I like the interior as well. Not sure I’d want to spend so much to live there, however, when you get so much more for your $1 mln on the NS.
“Too much hatred in helmhofer’s reply to comment upon. It’s too beautiful a day; I think I’ll bike up to Montrose beach.”
everyblock.org has this feature where you can mute a user and so you never see his/her posts. I’m sure we could collect enough to make that so here.
“take a look, at the totally bizarre shapes, combos and contortions/proportions, I mean, I honestly cannot figure what kinds of food, or how much food intake one would need to get malformed as such. It’s just amazing. A biologist/dietician would love to study it if they could get away with it.”
Types of food would be:
Any type of grain – (especially wheat, but also rice, corn, etc.)
Any type of sugar – (especially high fructose corn syrup)
A high ratio of bad Omega 6 fats to healthy Omega 3 fats; sometimes as high as a 20:1 ratio.
Beans and other legumes like peanuts
Overly processed food
Fast food
I’d like to recommend “The Primal Blueprint” by Mark Sisson.
After adopting this lifestyle I totally divide the world into hardbodies and inferior softbodies.
I can’t help it.
It’s just how I look at things now.
“Too much hatred in helmhofer’s reply to comment upon. It’s too beautiful a day; I think I’ll bike up to Montrose beach.”
But Josh and Rachel prefer to self-segregate themselves at the East Bank Club and the rooftop pool on nice days away from the masses….why is that? Are they full of snobbish hatred too? Maddy, try and be more tolerant of people who have different views than yours. I know many Highland Parkers that would never, ever go to Montrose beach, they like the “EBC”. Sonies like seeing “Chivas” jerseys at Loyola beach. EBC members like to see U. of Michigan gear at their club. To each his/her own.
“Types of food would be:
Any type of grain – (especially wheat, but also rice, corn, etc.)
Any type of sugar – (especially high fructose corn syrup)
A high ratio of bad Omega 6 fats to healthy Omega 3 fats; sometimes as high as a 20:1 ratio.
Beans and other legumes like peanuts
Overly processed food
Fast food”
It used to be that Big & Tall men’s shops were specialty stores…..now Kohl’s carries 2x XL, 3x ZL, as regular items. Size 40 pants are the new 34 on the racks. I overhead a woman at Target talking with a checker….yee-ah, uh-huh….I’m a trippl’ D. The guts on some of these beachgoers incl. the women are incredible, you almost want to grab a handfull and shake it up and down, and flop it. These big t-shirts covering the fat rolls…..Maddy loves it. LOL!!!!!!! too much.
I have only had one friend from Kenilworth and he’s the type that helm would hate – fat white guy with a scraggly goatee and lots of tattoos.
yeah, I’m not into overgrown juveniles. Even “bikers” are a version of this, and I’d tell that straight to one of their faces if the idiot started with me first….
who’d pay $1 mil to be in the shadow of that low income building?
“the type that helm would hate”
But he’s from K’worth, so at least he’s not je… I mean named Daniel or David or anything.
Mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg said on the radio this morning that for the first time in human history there are more people dying of obesity than scarcity of food.
Back when men were men, and not perpetual adolescents/juveniles, there came out this movie called The Wild One with Marlon Brando, his character was the first punk, overgrown juvenile, perpetual whiner, and first “biker”….now look at how vividly comical the whole thing has devolved into. gray-haired idiots wearing black t-shirts, tatooing their skin like aboriginals, riding around on “harleys” like morons, and they think they’re the common sense ones. Jenny’s friend probably is anon, because they love to poke their finger in the culture they didn’t create or is dominant. They’re probably more overtly anti-WASP than the reverse being true. OK, now back to Uptown and Montrose…..
Helmet, I’m a member @ EBC… so I guess that makes me wierd that I enjoy spending time with both snooty white people and *gasp* mexicans
As for the big and tall sizes… Don’t even get me started helmet! The only frickin size I can NOT find is XL-Tall which is so annoying… i have to either go with XL (too short) or XXL (too wide) only rarely can I find XLT size, probably because its a healthy size for a person of my height and I guess there aren’t many of us around
“who’d pay $1 mil to be in the shadow of that low income building?”
I can’t say I’ve ever agreed with josh before…but yes!
Uh 4200 N. Marine drive is NOT a low income building… just looks like one on the outside… LOL
If I had kids and the money, I would take the Kenilworth one too.
That is a condominium building to the south of this house @ 4200 N. Marine.
“4200 N. Marine Dr.”
Wasn’t that an INVSCO conversion deal?
Helm…don’t get me started on all the damned bikers. It’s pathetic to see these grown men peddling their bikes around as though they were 12….even normal 12-year-olds want to grow up and get cars.
“even normal 12-year-olds want to grow up and get cars.”
I was talking about baby-boomer “harley” idiots, but eh bicycle types are even more lame…..the Chinese are doing everything they can to get OFF their bicycles and into cars, and the USA is going in the reverse direction. Go figure.
Jenny – I can’t possibly believe you are a city dweller. You hate anything outside of your control that might in any way affect your personal little bubble: kids playing, other people’s cooking/grilling, bouncing basketballs… and you love cars?!? I imagine you would do well living smack dab in the middle of 6,000 acres in the middle of Montana. Or would a deep underground bunker be better where not even the sounds of God (thunder and wind) could affect you?
“I can’t possibly believe you are a city dweller”
Creepy people hide in trees and behind bushes and flash her, too, so the burbs are out. And the commute from the middle of 6000 acres to the fruit stand would be too burdensome.
I wouldn’t live in a large city if more jobs were available in small towns, but I don’t think that will happen.
I would be afraid to live in the middle of nowhere too though…I would keep thinking about In Cold Blood.
“rarely can I find XLT size, probably because its a healthy size for a person of my height and I guess there aren’t many of us around”
so you’re the other guy!
Mmmm…. Buena Park.
I agree with Jenny about the hordes of bikers on their fancy bikes wearing those stupid outfits. They ride in packs all weekend and clog up traffic. The average one of them must spend thousands on their bikes and Spandex. Whatever happened to just riding one’s bike for some fun? Or riding alone or with just a friend or two?
One of the weirdest CC threads ever. I know CC’ers hate almost everything, but to hate people who exercise??? Tell me this is a practical joke!
For the spandexed bikers, it is both hobby and exercise. Think of the amount of money people spend on brewing beer, horse statues, cellared wines, or collecting 15th century German tapestries. Its no different.
Here’s the formula:
“You spent $xxxx on ______?!?! LOLZCAT, that’s ridiculous. You must really suck at life! The $xxxx I spent on ______ is totally worthwhile and better than your hobby!”
See how easy that was?
I don’t hate people who exercise in general. Just the Spandexed bikers. I exercise almost every day, so it would be odd for me to hate exercisers!
I would go with a safer bet for $1. Sauganash is really nice… more surburban feel but nice nonetheless.
Also regarding health. Lots of low-income and high-income for that matter people eat too much of sugar, unhealthy fats, and chemical-laden food instead of essential fatty acids, high quality proteins, dozens and dozens of vegetables, good oils (coconut, olive, etc.).
meant to say safer bet for $1 MILLION.
One of the weirdest CC threads ever. I know CC’ers hate almost everything, but to hate people who exercise??? Tell me this is a practical joke!
Seriously! And in the same thread hating fat people… ridic.
For XLT my husband gets a lot of stuff on Banana Republic online, fits great.
does anyone who uses this blog actually want to talk about REAL ESTATE?
“good oils (coconut, olive, etc.).”
Yeah…ummm….it’s my understanding that coconut oil hasn’t been considered good for at least a decade. Natural doesn’t always = good.
“does anyone who uses this blog actually want to talk about REAL ESTATE?”
It’s a sign of the times. Real estate is boring. Inventory is at multi-year lows. Not much unique or cool on the market. Yawn.
Fed is going to be buying MBS in open-ended QE3. Mortgage rates to remain low!
I think that recall hearing that Daryl Hannah lived and grew up on this street. Perhaps even Joan and John Cusack. Can anyone confirm?
“Perhaps even Joan and John Cusack.”
The Cusacks lived in Evanston. Joan, at one time, owned a house in Ravenswood (if that’s what you’re thinking.)
The Wikipedia for Daryl Hannah said she grew up in Long Grove but also attended Francis Parker (somehow those two things don’t really add up.)
“Fed is going to be buying MBS in open-ended QE3. Mortgage rates to remain low!”
Um..yeah. For years. So what? The Japanese have had low rates for decades. Their housing market declined for 15 years.
Buena Park is not Uptown. This is a very nice area, and it’s come a long way since its rougher days before 1990. It has a few strange blocks, but overall is good and safe.
That said, it’s difficult to see how this house is worth over $1M. It’s very nice and in good condition, but the architecture is not outstanding and it has only 3 bedrooms. And while the area is perfectly good, it’s not quite as prime as the area south of Addison, or south of Belmont.
We aren’t Japan though…
A million is a wishing price. sure, it’s a nice house, and on a nice block, but it ain’t 2008 anymore. Try in the $700’s or the $800’s, and that’s for only for a very special buyer.
It’s all coming back now. I actually had a meeting in a home on the NE corner of Hutchinson and Clarendon. One of my potential customers lived there and it was amazing. Double lot, big main house, modern addition, really well cared for property. He was the one spouting out celebrity details.
The guy thought his poop did not stink and wanted to justify the expense for the home and cool factor of the street. His details might have been a bit off.
@Jp3, I think we both know that guy. cool pool room in the basement, ball room in the attic?
Icarus, unfortunately I was not invited on the whole tour. I recall seeing the main floor and then sitting outside on a patio on the west side of the home overlooking the garden area. Must have been around 10 years ago.
“It’s a sign of the times. Real estate is boring. Inventory is at multi-year lows. Not much unique or cool on the market. Yawn.”
Yeah. Where’s the flood of foreclosures G predicted would hit Avondale, Albany Park and Irving Park this summer?
what about this alternative: http://www.redfin.com/IL/Evanston/800-Sheridan-Rd-60202/home/13577691
“what about this alternative”
An anonny special!
Many of you didn’t think this would sell close to $1 million because it was in Uptown. But it closed in April 2013 for $905,000.