Soulful Lincoln Park Vintage Home Sold “As-Is” for $535,000: 639 W. Schubert
This 3-bedroom vintage single family home at 639 W. Schubert in Lincoln Park came on the market in October 2025.
Built in 1879, it’s on an extra wide 33×49 lot but is not on an alley so it has no garage or parking.
The listing says it is zoned RT4, which is for 2-flats, townhouses, apartments or single family homes.
The listing says the seller is a long-time owner which used it as an art studio and gallery.
It has many of its vintage features including decorative moldings, ornate millwork, wooden shutters, ceiling medallions and a decorative fireplace.
It appears much of the wood work has been painted.
It has a separate dining room and a den on the second floor.
The listing says the kitchen does not have any appliances but does have a large vintage cast iron sink.
The house has an unfinished basement which a Redfin agent, Omar Mohiudin, said in the agent’s note: “Charming Victorian home with great potential, though it requires significant renovations. Digging out basement and creating an income generating unit is possible.”
Two bedrooms are on the second floor and a third is on the main floor.
This house is in the Alcott and Lincoln Park High School school districts. It is also near all the shops and restaurants on Clark and Diversey, including the Trader Joe’s.
The listing says to bring your vision and your contractor. It is an estate sale and is being sold “as-is.”
The listing also says:
SELLER IS DIRECTING US TO SHOW BY APPOINTMENT THROUGH TUESDAY 10/28. OFFERS DUE 10/28 @ 5PM.
Will this home be torn down or will someone actually attempt to restore it?
Camille Canales at Compass has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
639 W. Schubert: 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 1417 square feet, single family home
- Sold in August 1993 for $80,000
- Currently listed at $535,000 with offers due by 5PM on 10/28
- Taxes of $14,851 (senior freeze)
- Electric heat
- Decorative fireplace
- No parking
- No central air
- Built on 33×49 irregular size lot
- Bedroom #1: 14×14 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 12×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 8×22 (main floor)
- Living room: 12×15 (main floor)
- Dining room: 13×13 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 13×18 (main floor)
- Den: 17×14 (second floor)
- Unfinished basement
“Taxes of $14,851 (senior freeze)”
The AMV is over $700k, and the senior freeze is applied? Doens’t make sense.
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AMV is $760k; Senior and Senior Freeze first applied for 2023–worth ~$1k.
HO exemption also has been claimed for years.
Here is the neighbor, on a 27′ lot–sold pre-reno for $380 in 2014 (started at $550 in ’13; sale price + CPI = $513k), listed for $899 in 2015, sold for $745k.
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/637-W-Schubert-Ave-60614/home/13369215
Possible that this one has a little more potential for a “historic” reno, but would certianly be more work to do so.
Would anyone actually be interested in this place, done right, as a “historic” reno at $1.25m??
another thing:
“zoned RT4”
Lot is 1,617, which is below the 1,650 minimum lot in RT-4. Certainly grandfathered anyway, so could (imo) build something new, too.
BUT: still only a single unit: RT-4 is 1,000sf/du.
38′ max height and 1.2 FAR means you could build a little bigger that existing, but still under 3,000 sf including basement–1,940 above grade max.
“Would anyone actually be interested in this place, done right, as a “historic” reno at $1.25m??”
Parking is TOUGH in this neighborhood. Might be able to find a buyer who doesn’t have one. Otherwise, I’m passing at $1.25 million.
Sold 12-2 for $700k.