“Step Back Into Time” With This 4-Bedroom Farmhouse: 5655 N. Newcastle in Old Norwood Park
This 4-bedroom farmhouse at 5655 N. Newcastle in Old Norwood Park came on the market in September 2012.
Built in 1919, it is on an enormous 50×231 lot with a 1.5 car garage.
The listing says the house has been owned by generations of the same family for 80 years.
It also says you can “step back into time” with the house as many of its vintage features are still intact.
It has stained glass windows, the original wood buffet in the dining room and an amazing looking wall of wood cupboards in the kitchen. One of the bathrooms also has a clawfoot tub.
The house has central air and an unfinished basement.
It is located in one of the top school districts in the city.
The house was reduced $20,000 to $425,000 after it was on the market for just 2 weeks.
Will a developer buy this house to tear down and build a new million dollar mansion or will a vintage lover snatch it up and restore it to its glory?
Susan Brigg at Baird & Warner has the listing. See the pictures here.
5655 N. Newcastle: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1.5 car garage, no square footage listed
- No prior price located- has been owned by the same family for 80 years
- Originally listed in mid-September 2012 for $445,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $425,000
- Taxes of $1186 (senior exemption)
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 11×10 (main floor)
- Bedroom #2: 11×10 (main floor)
- Bedroom #3: 14×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 14×13 (second floor)
This is adorable!! I hope a vintage-lover snatches it up. The intact kitchen cabinets, DR hutch, clawfoot tub… be still, my heart.
Bet the HVAC’s not fun, though — I’m guessing gravity feed and an old octopus in the basement.
Nice place with some work.
“Bet the HVAC’s not fun, though — I’m guessing gravity feed and an old octopus in the basement”
Looks like GFA based on the vent in the bathroom, and not a single visible radiator. Also, listing sez central air.
Doesn’t the bathroom vent look like an old gravity feed vent? I hope I’m wrong! I’d rather be wrong.
“Doesn’t the bathroom vent look like an old gravity feed vent?”
der, Thinking about things I’ve directly encountered instead of what you are saying. I’m sure they swapped things when they put in the a/c and the gas furnace, but you are right that they well may not have re-run the ducts properly. May well be uneven heat and relatively inefficent; Or, they may have done the duct runs right, but just used the original vents.
Must have done something different whn they dormered the 2d floor, right? Right??!?
That garage looks more like a shed. This place was there long before I-90 went through the neighborhood. The house looks ok, but really isn’t much more than a rental property at this point with very limited space.
I sure hope a vintage lover buys this! If I had the money, I’d buy it just to save it from turning into a mcmansion!
Its not a tear down at this price. Around 300K is what that Lot is worth.
Tear downs in Old Norwood are tough. They usually are owner bought and owner lived in tear downs. Not much developer activity