Looking for a Single Family Home in Old Town with 2-Car Parking? 1740 N. Sedgwick
This 3-bedroom brick vintage single family home at 1740 N. Sedgwick in Old Town came on the market in August 2020.
Built in 1886, just after the Chicago Fire, it’s on an oversized lot measuring 25×144 and has a 2-car garage.
The house was apparently renovated by a top designer prior to the last sale in 2010.
It has vaulted ceilings with cypress beams on the second floor and beamed ceilings on the first floor.
The house has plantation shutters and hidden built-ins behind mirrors.
The kitchen has gray cabinets with stone counter tops and a large island which appears to seat 5.
There’s a Butler’s pantry with 2 wine fridges.
The house has a family room and separate dining room off the kitchen, as well as a sunroom that wraps around the back of the house with a fireplace that overlooks the landscaped yard.
The house has the preferred family layout with all 3 bedrooms on the second floor.
For a vintage house, it also has a rare primary suite, with 2 closets, including a walk-in closet, and an en suite bathroom with a double vanity, shower and tub.
The other 2 full baths are also on the third floor.
The backyard has a brick patio and a rare 2-car garage (rare for Old Town).
There’s no lower level.
The house has central air.
It’s located near the shops and restaurants of Old Town and Lincoln Park as well as the Sedgwick Brown Line stop.
Listed in August 2020 for $1.649 million, it has been reduced $50,000 to $1.599 million.
If you’re a fan of vintage and Old Town, does this house check all the boxes?
Christopher Mundy at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
1740 N. Sedgwick: 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in November 1993 for $256,000
- Sold in November 1998 for $1.5 million
- Sold in May 2010 for $1,312,500
- Originally listed in August 2020 for $1.649 million
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $1.599 million
- Taxes of $32,098
- Central Air
- 2 fireplaces
- 2 car garage
- Oversized lot of 25×144
- Bedroom #1: 18×11 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 12×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×11 (second floor)
- Kitchen: 18×12
- Dining room: 14×11
- Living room: 26×12
- Family room: 17×13
- Sunroom: 18×7
The framed Trubisky jersey highlights their lack of taste and intelligence
And it’s in a bathroom
“It’s located near the shops and restaurants of Old Town and Lincoln Park”
The shops of Old Town = The charming empty storefronts stretching from Wells to Larabee, the quaint shitty bar food of Wells Street (please hold on Topo, your the last hope!)
The shops of Lincoln Park = the vacated stretch of Halsted from North Ave. to Fullerton, once full of little boutiques now full of for lease signs.
It would be too easy to blame the current Democrats for this ever expanding blight, Im going to blame the people who pumped up CRE to such ridiculous valuations that nobody can afford the rent to stay business anymore. The correction cometh and its going to be brutal.
1.5 million for this house 6 years ago I could see. Today? Not so much, empty storefronts, Marshal Filed Gardens crime and drug dealing, car jackings, muggings….no thanks.
Nicely renovated but such close proximity to Marshal Field, Evergreen Terrace, Sedgwick Brown Line, etc. which are amongst the highest crime rate areas of the city (and only getting worse).
All the colors suck, tile selection sucks. Ok basically all the finishes suck and many are mismatched. Sorry for the honesty
“blame the people who pumped up CRE to such ridiculous valuations that nobody can afford the rent to stay business anymore”
Yup. Mistaking Armitage/Halsted/Wells (and more recently, Milwaukee/Damen) for SoHo-Midwest managed to basically kill the silver goose. Halsted from ~Willow to ~Wrightwood is really unfortunate right now.
The location of the range is horrible, for anyone who likes to cook with oil.
The Gallucci napoletani pizza place on Wells is excellent.
Retail is getting crushed by Amazon, and everything that sells practically has to go thru the Amazon spigot. They should treat it as a utility at some point. How much wealth does Bezos even need?
Is there a basement? Unusual to see no mention. If you’re buying a family home, it’s generally ideal to have the family room down there so the kids can have space to make a mess. Otherwise it ends up in the living room.
I seldom agree with HH, but he has a point here. The retail situation is being killed by Amazon. The looting recently was another nail in the coffin. Luckily, some parts of the North Side still seem to be thriving, including East Lincoln Park and Andersonville.
“All the colors suck”
Ouch. Was literally considering trying to find this house’s exterior color at the paint store to give to our painters (we have white window frames so have to work with that).
I’d add that the retail outlets around Southport Corridor seem to be doing ok for now but who knows for how long?
“The retail situation is being killed by Amazon.”
I’ll disagree a bit
Amazon is killing retail with poor business plans and sub par customer serv
If you have a good business plan and Good employees, you can thrive even in today’s climate
“The retail situation is being killed by Amazon.”
Amazon has made retail much more competitive. Good for them. Look at the transformation at Target and Walmart because of the push from Amazon.
By the way, Amazon hasn’t killed a retailer in years. Last one it “killed” was Circuit City. Best Buy was supposed to die. It didn’t.
All the categories it enters, it mostly fails at.
It tried furniture several years ago. Anyone here buy from Rivet?
It sells the most underwear and socks in the world but it’s clothing lines have never put anyone else out of business.
They bought a supermarket and are losing money there.
Nike yanked its products off the site last year and now its own website and app are crushing it.
Amazon tried to compete with Etsy in homemade goods and Etsy ran circles around them.
They DO do delivery well though. And that has forced the others to up their game too.
“I’d add that the retail outlets around Southport Corridor seem to be doing ok for now but who knows for how long?”
Which ones? They’re mostly national chains over there now. Anthropologie isn’t going anywhere.
“The retail situation is being killed by Amazon. The looting recently was another nail in the coffin.”
Wrong, for now.
Versace has re-opened with a massive wood covering over it’s windows and doors. It’s like a safe now. Lol.
Chanel has always had triple pane glass. They tried twice to get in there, including with a truck, and nothing worked. Lol.
Also, the city has put big planters on more sidewalks now. Big ones. The size of a truck ones. It’s about time. They have to make it so that no car/truck can get up on the sidewalk.
“Is there a basement? Unusual to see no mention.”
Nope. Doesn’t appear to be. Not in the floor plan.
“It would be too easy to blame the current Democrats for this ever expanding blight, Im going to blame the people who pumped up CRE to such ridiculous valuations that nobody can afford the rent to stay business anymore. The correction cometh and its going to be brutal.”
The Armitage retail corridor was decimated in the 2008 recession. Lots of articles about how the rents were so high only national retailers could afford to go there. They closed up shop during that recession and went up to Southport.
None of the issues in the neighborhoods started recently.
They’ve tried to make it a “food corridor” with specialty restaurants and markets. You can google it to find out more. I’m not sure that has really worked though.
“Ouch. Was literally considering trying to find this house’s exterior color at the paint store to give to our painters (we have white window frames so have to work with that).”
Personally, I think the exterior color is perfect. It’s clean and modern without being too modern for the style of the home.
Such a great location – – maybe I am the only one who can say that because maybe I am the only commenter thus far who actually lives in this neighborhood? Yes there is crime – – but there is crime everywhere. One of my co-workers who lives in Hinsdale got car jacked a month ago…go figure. Apparently the burbs are not crime free? I generally really like this home. I dislike the lack of a vestibule at this price point and lack of a hood vent in the kitchen is also problematic for me. Colors are fine. I also like the exterior color. I would like the interior colors but I am not sure the painter knew what they were doing – – so the seller should credit the buyer to repaint some of the interiors (I am looking at the blue bath, which I would otherwise like, but it appears to need a few more coats? looks uneven in the pictures). The four season room with the fire place is divine in the city. I would love to cozy up with a hot chocolate and watch the snow fall from there.
I don’t quite grasp the price however – – seems steep to me. I feel like this is a 1.2 – 1.3 million dollar home. If it were four proper beds plus an office and separate home gym space I would feel differently, but it is a three bed home.
I will add that I am not a fan of painted brick. The second this starts peeling I would look for ways to remove it – – maybe even a way to cause it to peel in an artful way on purpose. Not only is it taking a relatively low maintenance material (brick) and making it high maintenance, it can also lead to moisture issues between the brick and interior walls.
Hahaha, comparing Hinsdale to the area around the Marshall Field homes, that is priceless!
I would have agreed with The Cat on the price, but things are kinda strange. 1732 N. North Park, one block away, went under contract in a day for 1.25 MM and that place needs a total gut in a bad way.
“I feel like this is a 1.2 – 1.3 million dollar home.”
Closed at $1.425m
Wow, 10 years of ownership and no profit (assuming they had to throw that sweet Truby Jersey in to close the deal)
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