Spend Your Days at the Lincoln Park Conservatory If You Live Here: 2340 N. Lincoln Park West
This 2-bedroom vintage unit at 2340 N. Lincoln Park West in Lincoln Park just came on the market.
It is located across the street from Lincoln Park and just minutes from the Conservatory.
Built in 1913, the building has 7 units.
It does have prime garage parking behind the building.
But the unit doesn’t have either central air or in-unit washer/dryer.
However, it does have some original moldings.
From the look of the one kitchen picture, it also appears to have a vintage kitchen of some sort.
Both bedrooms are generously sized and it has south, east and west tree top views.
Does the location make up for the missing amenities with this unit?
Shannon Raglin Cecola at Coldwell Banker has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #201: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, no square footage listed
- Last purchased before 1987 (no price given)
- Currently listed for $549,000
- Assessment of $963 a month (includes heat and gas)
- Taxes of $3200
- No central air (window units only)
- No in-unit washer/dryer
- Parking included
- Bedroom #1: 18×15
- Bedroom #2: 17×16
hmmm puts the barry place into perspective.
“it also appears to have a vintage kitchen of some sort.”
That’s one way to put it. Another is to say that the kitchen needs to be totally replaced.
That’s a big, beautiful living room, and you don’t see many places with windows like that. But having to put the dining table in the living room sort of takes it down a notch.
What I find most attractive about this place (other than the location and cool windows) is the 1.5 car garage. Assuming it’s a legit “.5”, that’s a huge plus. For strollers/bikes/sleds/junk, I would place giant premium on having that extra space.
Forget the conservatory, you can spend you time enriching the collection by carving animals out of wood.
FIRST, since we often come down hard, I think that the realtor is doing a nice job with this place. Nice photos, virtual tour, floor plan…
HOWEVER, do people really pay over a half mil to get a place that doesn’t have a washer/dryer or A/C? I’m surprised by that. I just can’t picture a buyer at this price level schlepping to the laundromat or coin-op in the basement. Or sweating their A off in the summer months… To me, 2 ensuites is not a plus when your guests have to trapse through a bedroom to go. Rather dumb in my opinion not to drop $1500 and put in some decent (GE/Frig) stainless steel appliances. Yes, people, that is how much fridge/micro/dw/range costs…
“Both bedrooms are generously sized and it has south, east and west tree top views.”
Funny – I see mostly brick wall views and I’m not sure you can get “tree top views” from unit #201… Unless you are talking about the bushes around the ouside of the building.
@Jon – A GE stainless fridge/microwave/dishwasher/range set can be had for $1500? Where? More like $5k at least.
Sorry – $1588…ABT
I’m not saying that this is the nicest appliance package, but it’s decent and people won’t throw up when they walk into your sh!tbox of a kitchen…
http://www.abt.com/packages/53276/Frigidaire-Package-with-Top-Freezer-Refrigerator.html
Based on the other unit on the floor (sold Jun-11 for $525, built out as a 1 br):
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2340-N-Lincoln-Park-W-60614/home/13349355
you *can* have a washer/dryer.
“A GE stainless fridge/microwave/dishwasher/range set can be had for $1500? Where? More like $5k at least.”
GE for $2082:
http://www.abt.com/packages/59218/GE-Stainless-Steel-Appliance-Package.html
Very odd floor plan. I think this apartment is carved out of three individual bedroom suites. Was this building originally a high-end apartment-hotel, with no kitchen facilities in the individual suites?
I think this is over priced. I place blame on the broker-these owners have lived there since 1987! their expectations shouldn’t be too wacked.
Here’s the sales I have here:
101 closed 11/1/2004 $265,000
101 closed 5/28/1998 $210,000
101 closed 8/10/1993 $169,000
101 closed 9/17/1990 $160,100
202 closed 4/11/2011 $525,000
202 closed 7/9/2004 $499,900
202 closed 11/13/2000 $480,000
202 closed 8/1/1997 $297,500
202 closed 8/28/1991 $285,000
203 closed 10/3/2005 $575,000
203 closed 5/5/1997 $268,000
203 closed 7/27/1992 $220,000
203 closed 11/28/1988 $154,000
301 closed 10/16/1995 $870,000
501 closed 5/28/2010 $1,955,000
“Was this building originally a high-end apartment-hotel, with no kitchen facilities in the individual suites?”
Most likely the opposite: the three 2nd floor units were likely carved out of a single unit. The 3rd, 4th and 5th floors are still single units.
I wouldn’t want a chopped up apartment with no AC/WD.This makes the Barry place look like it’s worth the extra 100K easily. The location here is definitely better, but not worlds better. The Barry place is only a block from the park, and it’s on a quieter street.
“A GE stainless fridge/microwave/dishwasher/range set can be had for $1500? Where? More like $5k at least.”
Mike’s on Ashland!
The realtor really should have removed the idiosyncratic decor/claptrap, it’s a huge distraction to thinking about the real estate.
Unit 202 at $525k is so much more interesting than this place. Yes, the bedrooms are large but the kitchen is TINY and in need of help and there is VERY little character here. Boring, boring, boring other than the alcove of windows.
I think this is way over priced, and shows why Barry will not go for $500k.’
I’d LOVE to see unit 501 inside….
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2340-N-Lincoln-Park-W-60614/unit-501/home/13084246
Anyone know what the assessments are on the full floor units?
Never mind. I see it now. Apologies. Wish there was an edit function 🙂
Very nice place, needs updating, and just simply decorated completely wrong. Who the hell buys something that should be designed in a Parisian style and then goes all Clockwork Orange on it? I like both styles, but not simultaneously.
Room sizes and location are excellent. As Jon points out – no a/c – no w/d is a problem.
And please stop talking about ABT..oh how I miss thee.
For B9–Pix of 501 here:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2340-N-Lincoln-Park-W-APT-501-Chicago-IL-60614/2142054298_zpid/
If this were a place I were considering (and without A/C or W/D, it’s not), I’d be a little uncomfortable buying a place like this where the size/value is so different than at least 3 other units in the building (floors 3, 4, 5). What happens when your rich upstairs neighbors decide that they want to build a pool, hire a doorman, overhaul the facade, install an[other] elevator… At 1/3 of one floor, you probably don’t have much of a say. Perhaps the upper floors should buy this place and allow the hired help to live here.
Oh for cryin’ out loud CCers, why the #*$& do you need central a/c this close to the lake? Fancy ceiling fans and open windows will do the trick, just as they did for the apparently much hardier generations of folks who lived here before. The way some people talk, here and elsewhere, you’d think that a lack of central a/c is akin to having no indoor bathrooms. Not in this neighborhood, people.
As for the lack of in-unit laundry, you know there are plenty of “upscale” vintage buildings in town that lack this “amenity,” Personally, I’d rather have an in-building laundromat so I can do several loads at the same time and free up precious apartment space for storage. Or if you want to be hoity-toity about it, there are still some laundry services that service LP and similar nabes.
I think there are buyers who will value an aura of vintage elegance over modern tweaks.
Chitown, this place sounds perfect for you then!
As for me, when it gets to be 100, I like c/a and I like the convience of doing laundry any time without having to go any where or switch it immediately when done and leaving it in the laundry room when I don’t feel like folding it.
“And please stop talking about ABT..oh how I miss thee.”
trust me you dont, its not on waukeegen rd anymore, its further at the edge of glenview instead off dempster like it used to be. also on a saturday or sunday it is the craziest mad house you have ever seen.
i get anxiety just thinking about it.
I lived by the lake for years, and still needed AC. Not on the first 80 degree day, but once the temperature and humidity get into the 90s its hot no matter where you are.
a laundry room isnt that bad. going to the f-in laundro mat is much much worse.
yeah unless you’re in a college town, or some nice parts of NYC, I can’t think of much worse than having to use a laundromat
ABT is a madhouse AND you pay that in state tax, but they are one smooth running operation from
point of sale to when you get that first cold beer out of the fridge.
on commonwealth, instead of LPW, has nothing like the beauty of the living room, true, and no parking, but has an extra bedroom and was a quarter million dollars cheaper and about 40% cheaper hoa fees:
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2341-N-Commonwealth-Ave-60614/unit-2B/home/12557163