Renovated Adler-Designed Row Home Reduces Further: 55 W. Schiller in the Gold Coast
This 4-bedroom row house at 55 W. Schiller in the Gold Coast came on the market in June 2017.
Built in 1868, the listing says it is an Adler-designed property.
It’s on a 18.5 x 106 lot.
The listing also says it was completely renovated in 2017 with a top floor addition.
It has oak herringbone pattern floors, crown molding and four fireplaces, including two which are marble.
The kitchen has custom cabinets and a Prunella marble workstation by Waterworks. It has luxury stainless steel appliances including a double wide refrigerator.
3 of the four bedrooms are on the third floor with the master bedroom on the fourth floor.
The master suite overlooks a planted terrace and has a walk-in-closet and a spa bath with marble floors and a glass and steam shower.
There’s a family room and the fifth bedroom/library on the lower level, which is the same as the garage. According to the prior listing it has antique cement tiles that were salvaged from European villas.
The backyard is limestone paved and landscaped.
The row house has a rare attached front 1-car garage and a small driveway which has exterior snow melt and room for a second car.
It has multiple-zoned HVAC.
Originally listed in June 2017 for $4.2 million, it has been reduced $1.205 million to $2.995 million.
Is this now finally priced to sell?
Mario Greco at Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices now has the listing. See the pictures and the floor plan here.
55 W. Schiller: 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 4,000 square feet
- Sold in 1989 (no price listed)
- Sold in November 2007 for $959,000
- Possibly also sold in December 2013 for $970,000 (Zillow and Redfin both say it sold in 2013 but the CCRD doesn’t show this sale)
- Originally listed in June 2017 for $4.2 million
- Reduced several times
- Currently listed for $2.995 million
- Taxes are now $21,748 (they were $20,759 in January 2019)
- Central Air
- 1-car front attached garage
- 4 fireplaces (including 2 marble)
- Bedroom #1: 17×16 (third floor)
- Bedroom #2: 15×14 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 14×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 15×9 (second floor)
- Bedroom #5 (called a library in the prior listing): 13×10 (lower level)
- Family room: 16×15 (lower level)
- Walk-in-closet: 13×8 (third floor)
To me, I think the kitchen design is interesting. It looks like it was designed to be a kitchen that doesn’t look like a kitchen. It’s cool, but I’d have to see it in person to see if the work triangle was functional.
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of counter space in the kitchen so that’s where I question the functionality.
Really great style and god do I love the master bath. I like the person(people) who live here already. I just wouldn’t want to spend 3 mil for that stretch of Schiller and that back yard, given my other choices in Chicago for 3 mil. I’m guessing that’s why it still lingers – better choices at this price point, as great as the style is.
Very classy. I think the drop below $3 mln should find a buyer.
“I just wouldn’t want to spend 3 mil for that stretch of Schiller and that back yard, given my other choices in Chicago for 3 mil.”
ChicagoDog: What’s wrong with this stretch of Schiller? It doesn’t seem very heavily trafficked. No commercial buildings on the corner or drive thru fast food places.
Is it the high rise across the street that’s the problem?
But you’re right that there are a LOT of properties at $3 million you could be choosing from.
“ChicagoDog: What’s wrong with this stretch of Schiller? It doesn’t seem very heavily trafficked. No commercial buildings on the corner or drive thru fast food places.”
Its not the traffic. In that regard, yes, it’s likely quieter than other options in the gold coast. It’s just that, for 3 mil, you could be choosing an equally quiet, tree-canopied stretch of a street with other stately homes, especially if you’d be willing to explore beyond this small part of the gold coast. It’s attached on both sides, which I feel is a ding. It’s got a microscopic back yard with a big dark wall of brick to look at. And the high rise wall across the street (north facing?) certainly isn’t an optimistic view out front.
Don’t get me wrong – the space is gorgeous and really well done from an interior design perspective (at least, lets say it suits my taste). But I couldn’t choose it for the above reasons.
I swear we have chattered about this one before. I recollect saying that I hope they used a reputable structural engineer because they did a lot of stuff to this very old structure when they added that garage.
My questions are: Why do these folks want to move so soon? (and who TF are they that they can afford so much awesome stuff and yet are young enough they have younger kids??)
I could easily live here and ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE QUIRKY FINISHES (but not that lonesome stove all by itself far from everything else you need to cook and the lack of counter space.) That kitchen is cool looking but a design fail) but think another $800K – $1MM comes off the ask and they still turn a profit.
“(and who TF are they that they can afford so much awesome stuff and yet are young enough they have younger kids??)”
what am I missing…just from looking at the pics, there’s no sign of kids anywhere.
“What’s wrong with this stretch of Schiller?”
For the price, I think there are places from which the occupants will not watch the 22 and 36 buses pass by, no?
“4,000 square feet”
GTFO. Not even with counting the garage!!
The largest floor is under 900 sf, per plan, and there aren’t 4 floor size floors.
Probably closer to 3000 than 4000.
“For the price, I think there are places from which the occupants will not watch the 22 and 36 buses pass by, no?”
It’s in the middle of the block. You’d have to really be stretching to “see” the buses on the street corner.
It’s the city. There ARE buses, cabs, and the subway. You might, gasp, even hear some sirens. Or some school kids on their way to class.
“I swear we have chattered about this one before.”
Um…yeah. That’s what it says. We have chattered about it before.
Whoops, sorry The Cat. The listing didn’t link to our prior chatter. My bad.
But yes, we DID chatter about it previously when it first came on the market.
@marco: picture 27.
That is THE GREATEST MOST LUX bedroom for a 13-year old girl ever. She is either a twin or always has friends over for slumber parties, that room does not belong to an adult.
“@marco: picture 27.
That is THE GREATEST MOST LUX bedroom for a 13-year old girl ever. She is either a twin or always has friends over for slumber parties, that room does not belong to an adult.”
No way. Do you have a daughter?
Looks more like a guest room for visiting grandkids or extended family than that for a 13 year old girl.
“Looks more like a guest room for visiting grandkids or extended family than that for a 13 year old girl.”
Per public record, seems likely it is for extended family. Taxpayer lives elsewhere.
“It’s in the middle of the block. You’d have to really be stretching to “see” the buses on the street corner.”
I’ve looked almost directly at this property 100’s of times while on the 22 bus (or in a cab). If I recall correctly, the building on the northeast corner of Schiller/Clark has a setback/driveway/parking area that allows for a relatively clear view between this property and Clark. From that, I’ll infer that the occupants have a similar vantage of traffic on Clark. For $3 million, in Chicago, that needn’t be the case.
“I’ve looked almost directly at this property 100’s of times while on the 22 bus (or in a cab). If I recall correctly, the building on the northeast corner of Schiller/Clark has a setback/driveway/parking area that allows for a relatively clear view between this property and Clark. From that, I’ll infer that the occupants have a similar vantage of traffic on Clark. For $3 million, in Chicago, that needn’t be the case.”
You’re driving on the opposite side of a quite wide street and looking halfway down the block of a side street?
Um…okay.
I don’t doubt you can look “directly at the property” for about a second. Maybe two.
And so?
No one in the townhouse is opening the front door, sticking their head out, and staring at the buses that are literally at the end of the block. No one. And on your various decks, no one is seeing you either except those in the high rise across the street (which is more of an issue, I might add.)
And if some buses bother you, why the hell is someone going to pay $5 million to live in the Tribune Tower with a dozen bus lines driving right in front all day and night? Lol.
Just down the street from here on North and Clark (with an actual 22/36 bus stop across the street and the North Avenue bus stop directly in front of the building) sits a new construction condo midrise with all of its units over $1 million.
Now THAT property DOES have a bus problem.
This one, sorry, does not.
I had to look at the pictures again.
anonny, in picture 50 out of 57, of the aerial pictures, you can see that this row house has 6 other homes in between it and Clark Street. It is virtually in the middle of the block. There is just one more row house between it and the alley that is basically in the middle of the block.
There’s no way someone riding on a bus going south on Clark (which is all the way on the opposite side of that street) is able to see “directly” into this property. It’s just way too far away from Clark for that. The angle wouldn’t even be correct.
These are great pictures, by the way. I don’t remember another row house property that had this many aerial shots like this. Good job by the realtor.
This Adler row home finally sold in July 2021 for $2.4 million.
Came back on the market last year and just closed again on Jan 20, 2023 for $2.375 million.
“sold in July 2021 for $2.4 million”
Apparently a cash purchase–no mortgage.