“The True Definition of City Living”: A 2-Bedroom at 1366 N. Dearborn in the Gold Coast
This 2-bedroom in the Dearborn Schiller at 1366 N. Dearborn in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2022.
Built in 1926 by McNally & Quinn Architects, the Dearborn Schiller currently has 40 units. There’s no attached parking but it’s available in the neighborhood.
According to Chicago Apartments, a Century of Lakefront Luxury, the building has a 3-story stone base and invokes Italian Renaissance palazzo features. It has a brick and cut stone exterior.
It originally had 2 six-room apartments and one four-room apartment per floor. There was an opportunity to combine units as well.
The building was converted into condos in 1980 selling from $83,000 to $198,500.
It does not have a doorman or other amenities.
The listing for this fourth floor unit says it has been “meticulously renovated from the ground up.”
It’s also unique in the building in that it is the only floor that has the french doors as windows throughout the living/dining room which the listing says “feels like living in Paris.”
The elevator opens directly into the unit’s private foyer.
It has the original fireplace but new Chevron quartersawn white oak floors.
The dining room has a custom mural and built-in cabinets.
The primary suite has custom closets and a spa-like primary bath with a walk-in-shower and linen storage.
The chef’s kitchen has been “completely redone” and has custom white cabinets, honed limestone countertops, natural marble hard finishes, a breakfast bar which seats 2 and an oven range imported from Paris.
The listing says there’s a breakfast nook which could be a second bedroom.
It has features that buyers look for including a full size laundry room with a sink and storage and central air. The listing says there is “garage parking nearby.”
It also has custom-made doorknobs and 10 karat gold leaf accents on the doors.
This building is on a tree lined street easily accessible to the Rush Street and Old Town restaurants and shops.
Listed at $1.45 million, is this the Gold Coast vintage dream?
Victoria Rezin and Dawn McKenna at Coldwell Banker have the listing. See the pictures here. Sorry, no floor plan.
Unit #4A: 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1920 square feet
- Sold in October 2013 for $709,000 (per Zillow)
- Currently listed at $1.45 million
- Assessments of $2050 a month (includes heat, security, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $16,851
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- “garage parking nearby”
- Fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 18×14
- Bedroom #2: 17×9
- Living room: 21×15
- Dining room: 18×14
- Kitchen: 15×12
This is a stunningly and beautifully decorated apartment. I would love to know who the designer was. The bones of the unit are great. Nevertheless, the asking price seems very very optimistic to me. Has anything in Chicago appreciated 100% since 2013? Also, the lack of parking in the building is even more of a concern than usual with the uptick in crime in the neighborhood. I’m guessing 950k for the selling price with current interest rates, but who knows? A lover of chinoiserie may be swept away by the decorating and those great doors.
“Has anything in Chicago appreciated 100% since 2013?”
HAs anything that has been basically 100% redone doubled in price?
Yes.
Also keep in mind that 709+CPI = 899. They probably didn’t spend $500k on the reno, but it wasn’t that much less.
“it feel as if you’re living in Paris.”
“imported from Paris, France.”
So, they were concerned someone would think the range was “imported” from Paris, Texas?
Also, it’s a Lacanche, hand made in Burgundy, not Paris–like saying you got something from New York City, but it’s actually from St Joe’s, MI, or Peoria, Illinois, or … Paris, Texas.
They went to all that trouble and didn’t mount a tv over the fireplace?
“imported from Paris, France.”
“Also, it’s a Lacanche, hand made in Burgundy”
made there, yes but perhaps not imported from there.
open your french doors and let ALL the bugs, smog and bullets enter your living room unopposed!
Other than area off the kitchen (WTF is that?) agree with Tsippi on the design just working. Should sell as furnished as it would be difficult to start fresh and come up with anything better w/o completely changing the design pallet
Would have added screens to the french style doors/windows (assuming theres no historical designation)
I would have thought the remodel was > $0.5MM (Some previous sales photos are available)
IMO this is a hell of a lot nicer than 14A
Was the little reading nook once a butler’s pantry? Lovely, but as someone who loves to cook, I see an issue with the lack of kitchen storage. Did I miss something?
“perhaps not imported from there”
I guess they could have bought it from a retailer in Paris. Who still most likely would have had the custom piece drop shipped without passing through Paris.
They could have also bought it in London or Toronto (not that that makes sense)–would that make it imported from the UK or Canada?
The before (2017) on 14A:
https://tour.vht.com/433618977/1366-n-dearborn-pkwy-14a-chicago-il-60610/video/idx
Remuddler started out at $1.6m in Aug-20.
Pretty apartment. Shame about the lack of parking.
Sabrina, unrelated to this unit, but also very nicely decorated, is this insanely cheap unit at 3750 N. Lakeshore. I realize the unit is on the wrong side of the building, that this building has had more than its share of special assessments, has what some consider high fees, is coop, etc, but 225K for this seems so low. Does anyone know if there is something going on with this building? https://redf.in/tgL2oN
anon (tfo): “The before (2017) on 14A:
https://tour.vht.com/433618977/1366-n-dearborn-pkwy-14a-chicago-il-60610/video/idx
Remuddler started out at $1.6m in Aug-20.”
Why would they change that? For me, the before is much better and I like it better than 4A. Other than the gorgeous orange range, 4A is too restrained for that style. It needs more pattern and color.
“Why would they change that?”
well…
“the architect’s own recently renovated penthouse”
“open your french doors and let ALL the bugs, smog and bullets enter your living room unopposed!”
bullets sonies?
You just look like a fool when you make comments like that.
Also the “smog” comment. I don’t recall the last time there was “smog” on this street in the Gold Coast which gets little traffic.
(eye roll)
” “smog” on this street in the Gold Coast which gets little traffic”
Yes, because smog is a phenomenon that remains in one place. (eye roll)
Smog is the wrong term, of course, but it’s been used incorrectly for decades to mean ‘visibly polluted air’.
“Yes, because smog is a phenomenon that remains in one place. (eye roll)”
Tell me when the last time downtown Chicago had a pollution warning.
You can’t?
Okay then.
It was a STUPID comment from someone who lived not that far from here several years ago. Chicago doesn’t have a “smog” problem. We have other issues going on, but that’s not it. He should know better but perhaps it’s all that time in Nevada with the bad air quality from all the fires that is getting to him.
“Tell me when the last time downtown Chicago had a pollution warning.”
Tell me the last time there was a pollution warning, and it didn’t affect a particular street because that street “gets little traffic”.
“Chicago doesn’t have a “smog” problem.”
Yes, no smog problem, no serious air pollution problem, but the air isn’t mountain fresh, either.
Would you have argued it if he had said: “city grime and dust and car exhaust”?
Which, I agree, he should have said instead of ‘smog’.
Beautiful unit indeed, but may be about $300,000 overpriced. Lack of parking, high assessment and taxes, and worries about recent crime in the area all could mean this has to come down a bit.
“worries about recent crime in the area”
Where’s that happening? Old Town on Wells? Rush Street restaurant area?
What kind of crime? Muggings? Carjackings? Are there burglaries in the single family homes?
Genuinely wondering.
Pre-pandemic there were some random muggings for cell phones on Cedar and Elm. There have been carjackings. There was that targeted shooting near Oak/Rush a few years ago.
Seems like the muggings are much worse in Lincoln Park and Lakeview (the ones where you are just walking down the sidewalk, the car pulls up, they get out and ask for your purse/phone at gunpoint and then drive away with it.)
The problems with the 3750 LSD unit include, most importantly, being on the wrong side of the building, as you said, and sky-high assessments. It’s a lovely building, but if I’m remembering the unit correctly, that apartment needs some work.
For those who don’t mind the assessments and want a lake view, I’ve seen high-floor lake-view units at 3750, nicely updated, go for under $500,000.