Looking for River Views? A 2-Bedroom Loft at 758 N. Larrabee in River North
This 2-bedroom loft in One River Place at 758 N. Larrabee in River North came on the market in January 2020 and was withdrawn in March 2020 when the state shutdown began.
It has now been re-listed.
Built in 1929, One River Place was the old Montgomery Wards administration building.
It’s famous for the bronze statue of a woman titled “Spirit of Chicago” from the 1933 Century of Progress World’s Fair which was mounted on the tower.
The statute was preserved in the conversion into lofts which happened in 2002.
It has 241 units and garage parking. It’s a full service building with doormen.
The listing calls this a “rehabbed” designer loft.
It has high ceilings and two walls of industrial windows along with a balcony overlooking the Chicago River.
It has a fully renovated Talora by Décor kitchen with white modern cabinets, open shelving, a custom backsplash, high-end stainless steel appliances, quartz counter tops and an expanded island which seats 4.
There’s a gas fireplace with built-in wall paneling with storage drawers.
Both bedrooms have windows, which isn’t common for many lofts.
The loft has a custom glass wall which looks into the master bedroom which has a renovated master bathroom with ceramic floors, dual vanity and marble counter tops along with a big stand-up shower.
The second bedroom is fully enclosed, which isn’t always the case with loft bedrooms.
It has the features buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and parking is $35,000 extra.
This loft has views over the Chicago River.
With the big Lincoln Park and Chicago Tribune developments coming in the next several years on the North Branch of the Chicago River, will properties with views get a premium?
Lance Kirshner at Compass has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #701: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1800 square feet
- Sold in June 2003 for $536,500
- Sold in March 2008 for $605,000
- Sold in April 2014 for $602,500
- Originally listed in January 2020 (I don’t have the original price)
- Cancelled on Mar 21, 2020
- Re-listed in May 2020 for $734,900 (plus $35,000 for parking)
- Assessments of $1107 a month (includes parking doorman, cable, Internet, exercise room, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $16,026
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Gas fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 16×15
- Bedroom #2: 14×11
- Living/dining room: 39×15
- Kitchen: 16×9
- Balcony: 14×5
I’m not a big fan of this immediate area. It seems pretty dead to me, without any decent stores or restaurants other than a single lonely Starbucks. Maybe this is changing or will change, but in the meantime it just seems too isolated. Chicago Avenue over here is a ghost town.
Always liked the exterior of the building and thought Chicago Ave over here had a cool industrial/gritty vibe
The glass wall into the MBR?
Assessments are insane
couple of interesting things…
firewood in living room is purely for decoration…
master glass wall has no shades/drapes…
master bath does not appear to provide much, if any, storage for toiletries…
homedelete is a total bigot and the more he protests, the more he digs his grave…
he and hh are the most negative voted consistently on this blog… maybe they should move on to a right-wingnut blog where there ignorant opinions will be more appreciated…
“homedelete is a total bigot and the more he protests, the more he digs his grave…
he and hh are the most negative voted consistently on this blog… maybe they should move on to a right-wingnut blog where there ignorant opinions will be more appreciated……”
I don’t think HD is a bigot
I’m shocked that there are so many on the left that cannot handle any dissent from their dogma. What happened to co-exist?
came on the market in January 2020 and was withdrawn in March 2020
They need to re-take the balcony/outdoor pictures. The winter scene is not as attractive and also makes it look like it’s been lingering on the market.
hey jack get a life, there’s no reason some random person on a tiny localized chicago real estate blog should be living in your head rent free like this
go outside and take a walk or something
as for the unit, the rehab is well done even though its not a place I’d ever live, and I used to live in the area
why anyone would want to be close to the smelly chicago river is beyond me, especially this part where there’s no interesting buildings on it at all really, like ooh wow I get to look at the ugly ass tribune distribution center and the ontario feeder ramp… yay
Where is the refrigerator?? drawers only?
“master glass wall has no shades/drapes…”
It does, use the 360 tour.
2d bath is untouched, and totally incongruous. Would bug me a lot.
Getting rid of the pantry closet really helped the look of the main space, but in combo with removing the upper cabinets sacrifices a good deal of utility. Not that folks who want a kitchen like this, in a unit like this, are likely using the kitchen in a way that requires oodles of kitchen storage/utility.
oh, and, $170k for the kitchen, one bath and some white paint (which was *really* needed)? no way. $699, including the parking, tops.
Johnny U,
I have no problem with principled dissent and intelligent conversation with people on the right. I’m left-center myself. I don’t sympathize with the far left or the far right.
However, when someone uses the kind of language I regularly see from HD and HH on this site, that’s not a conversation at all, nor does it have to do with conservative principles. It comes from a place of hatred.
“….I don’t think HD is a bigot
I’m shocked that there are so many on the left that cannot handle any dissent from their dogma. What happened to co-exist?”
Ironic for janU to weigh in on this (hey did janU get to Hayward & share IL strains of whatever w/WI bar workers & customers or was that ‘trip’ just bs too?).
Imo hd/jan2 posts here to promote a white supremacist political view he shares w haterhelmut, bob & trump. I object to hd/jan2 emulating trump on cc – imo hd’s posts consist mainly of lies, bs, distortions & distractions.
Dissent w/opinions & beliefs is ok but I won’t tolerate lying pos’s posting hateful lies or bs expecting zero consequence. It’s telling that like trump hd expects anyone who disagrees w hd and calls him out to be banned from cc. hd clearly repeatedly lied about what was posted when reacting to Dan2’s post
Maybe “hatred” was the wrong word to use in the case of HD (though it definitely applies to HH).
I think HD is just someone who likes to troll here and stir up liberals by purposely making statements he knows will get their goat. He got mine yesterday so it’s my bad in taking the bait.
“2d bath is untouched, and totally incongruous. Would bug me a lot.”
Agreed anon(tfo). This ALWAYS bugs me. Why just redo one of the bathrooms and the kitchen and then leave the smaller baths with the old finishes? It just makes you see it and go “old finishes, blah.”
It’s not THAT expensive to put a new vanity in and some new lighting. You don’t have to go all out to do at least a basic update.
“why anyone would want to be close to the smelly chicago river is beyond me, especially this part where there’s no interesting buildings on it at all really, like ooh wow I get to look at the ugly ass tribune distribution center and the ontario feeder ramp… yay”
Because the River has been one of the hottest places to live in the city for the last 5 years?
Because they are building River Walks all over the place and the water taxis will be going up and down the north and south branches in the next 10 years?
Because the Tribune distribution Center is going away and is going to be a large, multi-building development?
Gosh, I don’t know. Maybe some of these reasons.
2d bath is untouched, and totally incongruous. Would bug me a lot.
Painting the cabinet or even putting in a new mirror would help a little, but, yeah, would bug me, too.
I am ready to put “open shelves in the kitchen” on the cribhater list, which now includes:
1) Diagonal wood floors
2) Vessel sinks
3) TV above fireplace
4) No hood in kitchen / microwave above the stove
“I’m not a big fan of this immediate area. It seems pretty dead to me, without any decent stores or restaurants other than a single lonely Starbucks. Maybe this is changing or will change, but in the meantime it just seems too isolated. Chicago Avenue over here is a ghost town.”
Go north, Dan #2.
It’s still not great but there is a Goddess & Grocer and a Tex-Mex restaurant just north of Chicago Avenue.
There are a LOT of people living in a couple block radius now so there will likely be more retail/restaurants that go in over the next few years.
What do people think about that big custom window into the master bedroom?
I’ve never seen something like that before in a room that actually DOES have a window. Usually you would do something like that if it was an interior room with no access to natural light.
It’s a cool looking feature, but the practicality of it isn’t so great. I know it has drapes, but you’d have to keep the room pristine at all times, if you wanted to keep them open to the living room. Lol.
“the practicality of it isn’t so great”
Pretty sure that’s about having the desk in the MBR, when the correct answer in this place is a murphy bed and office in the 2d BR.
What do people think about that big custom window into the master bedroom?
I like it, but I think I’d want to put up something like this:
https://stickpretty.com/collections/privacy-window-film
“What do people think about that big custom window into the master bedroom?”
It feels like something you’d put up in a studio apartment.
“What do people think about that big custom window into the master bedroom?”
it’s almost like they wanted to embrace living in a big open loft but then decided this was the next best thing. It may have looked cooler if it was made of black metal (to match the windows) instead of painted white.
Cat Lady Karen
Went to Wi over Memorial Day. Didn’t go to into Hayward. Lucky I don’t have the Il version – It’s the one that lowers your IQ to the mid 50’s – Hope you get better Cat Lady Karen
Words like White Supremist/Hitler get thrown around by people that cant think past toeing the party line (Has was true on the flip side wrt Obama = Muslim). You managed to totally make the word meaningless, maybe that was the goal?
“What do people think about that big custom window into the master bedroom?”
Fail
Looks like they tried to be trendy went with a fixed version of an overhead door
“I like it, but I think I’d want to put up something like this:”
But why would you pay all that money to install it and then block the light that comes through? The privacy stickers can’t be open and closed like the drapes can.
They have some cute stickers on that site though. Thanks Madeline. I’m going to bookmark it. Lol.
Almost $2500/mo in HOA and Taxes ALONE. Its a nice place but this is just really expensive. The immediate area is pretty boring as well.
But why would you pay all that money to install it and then block the light that comes through? The privacy stickers can’t be open and closed like the drapes can.
They don’t block the light, though. The effect is similar to frosted glass – lets in the light but provides privacy.
I am ready to put “open shelves in the kitchen” on the cribhater list, which now includes:
1) Diagonal wood floors
2) Vessel sinks
3) TV above fireplace
4) No hood in kitchen / microwave above the stove
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with putting a TV over the fireplace if that’s the only option the builder left you. Especially in a secondary, less formal living space. Otherwise, a good list and open shelves in the kitchen belongs near the top.
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with putting a TV over the fireplace if that’s the only option the builder left you.”
Sure, *but* (1) it can’t be ~4 feet from where you would sit on a couch (as in many smaller condos with fireplaces jutting 4 feet into the 10′ wide living room) and (2) it can’t be so high that it’s like sitting in the front row at the movies. If either is the case, you have to *be able to* find another place to put it.
I’m going to need a ruling on whether to include “no space for a full sized dining table” on the list.
““no space for a full sized dining table””
imo, depends on bedroom count. 1 bed, nah, 3+ beds, yeah, 2 beds, ???
“the cribhater list”
Reminded by KK’s recommendation in the 3350 Racine thread, we need to add:
spiral staircase
which also reminds:
outdoor space accessed only thru bedroom.
“I’m going to need a ruling on whether to include “no space for a full sized dining table” on the list.”
What’s “full-size”?
You can fit an IKEA table with 6 chairs in an 8×10 space. Does that count?
Did not sell. Has been listed for rent since, with listed ask fo $4,500/mo in ’20 and ’21 and $4,650 in Mar-23.