This Old Town Vintage Rowhouse is on the Market for the First Time in 14 Years: 1730 N. Wells
This 3-bedroom Victorian rowhouse at 1730 N. Wells in Old Town just came on the market.
From what I can tell, it’s the first time it’s been on the market in 14 years.
Built in 1876, it has 2050 square feet on a 22×42 lot.
It has many of its original features including crown molding, wood trim, stained glass and built-ins.
It has a finished lower level family room.
The kitchen has wood cabinets and white appliances and counter tops.
2 of the three bedrooms are on the third floor with the third on the second level.
There’s no parking but the rowhouse does have central air.
Given how hot Old Town has been, will this sell quickly even though it doesn’t have parking?
Frederic Scovell at Coldwell Banker has the listing. See the pictures here.
1730 N. Wells: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2050 square feet
- Sold in September 1994 for $335,000
- Sold in July 1999 for $512,000
- Currently listed at $849,000
- Taxes of $11,498
- Central Air
- No parking
- Bedroom #1: 14×12 (third floor)
- Bedroom #2: 11×11 (third floor)
- Bedroom #3: 11×11 (second floor)
- Family room: 16×19 (lower level)
I’ve always wanted to live in a rowhouse like this. So charming, Needs minimal work too, I think it’ll go. I wonder about rental parking in the area…
Perfect Location. Catherine Cook, Latin School and that new grocery store are right there. Considering operating expense of a car in Chicago vs benefit of driving to places that deliver anyway vs cost of I go and Zip cars, I wonder how much longer, no parking will be a deal breaker. I sold my car two years ago after doing the math. The parking and insurance alone was an extra 300 bucks in my pocket.
Taxes look really low. Is there a senior exemption on this one? I agree that parking isnt that big of a deal but still think it goes in the $750 to 770 range.
“Perfect Location. Catherine Cook, Latin School and that new grocery store are right there. Considering operating expense of a car in Chicago vs benefit of driving to places that deliver anyway vs cost of I go and Zip cars”
So, this place is both (1) close to Latin and (2) viable despite lack of parking because the occupants could rely on Zip cars? So they’ll be shuttling the kids around the city (and sometimes out to the burbs) in the Zip car? Heading out at the crack of dawn on rainy or very cold days to get a Zip car in order to run the kids over to Latin?
“Heading out at the crack of dawn on rainy or very cold days to get a Zip car in order to run the kids over to Latin?”
Wouldn’t you, gasp, WALK to Latin?
Isn’t it just 5 minutes away?
“Wouldn’t you, gasp, WALK to Latin?”
Or maybe put the spoiled brats in a cab.
This location is amazing. In addition to private schools / grocery its also 5 min to the zoo / green city market / elaine’s coffee. If private school isn’t desired its in LP elementary and also in the attendance area for LaSalle Lang Academy. No parking is a bummer but there are several parking spots for rent around here for $250-300 / mo. And while its on Wells its the very quiet part of Wells that is north of the shopping / restaurants. Also being on Wells is actually helpful without parking as most of the rental spots are on Wells or east of Wells. I think this is priced appropriately – maybe expecting a bid down $25-50k or so. There were similarly sized places that went for $900k area but I think they had parking.
“Wouldn’t you, gasp, WALK to Latin?”
Yes, a lot of the time. But I’m not sure how much of the time. A little drizzle during Sept/Oct, or a typical winter-through-early-spring day temperature-wise, there should be no problem in zipping the kid over to school while bundled up in a covered stroller. But for how long can a kid ride in a stroller? The two K years, sure, but you don’t see many first-graders in strollers. And at what age can a kid just walk the 10 minutes solo (it’s really more like 10 than it is 5 from this location – and that’s at an adult pace)? And in what sort of weather conditions?
Let’s hear from some city folks who get their kids to school (and day camp), who live around a 5-10 minutes walk from the school. Specifically, let’s hear from folks who have or have had a first grader, a fifth grader and a high school kid, to get a range of perspectives.
“Yes, a lot of the time. But I’m not sure how much of the time.”
If you would plan to walk a lot of the time, then it’s not an issue of distance. If it’s a matter of weather, then really only torrential rain or single digit temps should prevent you from walking. That’s what, 10 days, 15 days max, a year? And wouldn’t you be talking a cab (or more probably uber w surge pricing bc it’d be hard to get a cab on those days) anyway?
And get your kid out of the stroller!
“A little drizzle during Sept/Oct, or a typical winter-through-early-spring day temperature-wise, there should be no problem in zipping the kid over to school while bundled up in a covered stroller.”
nonny’s gotta be kidding w this right? a parody? but really hard to tell w him sometimes.
I walk my 4 year old 5-10 minutes to the lycee and push his little bro in the stroller… it’s more of a pain to get the car a few doors down and load everyone in only to drive 2 minutes down the street (I do it occasionally though, mostly when I have somewhere to go after).
“nnny’s gotta be kidding w this right? a parody? but really hard to tell w him sometimes.”
Nah.. He’s serious… I think he lost his sense of humor 1) somewhere in his late 20’s. 2) Between Colorado and Illinois 3) the moment he started individually numbering every discrete thought.
Not sure I follow, DZ. How would you get a 4/5 year old to school in the rain or on a 30 degree day, if the school is a 10 minute (adult) walk? You wouldn’t use a covered stroller?
And are you saying that you’d have kids 6 years and older walking a 10-minute-adult-pace-distance, regardless of weather? Regardless of the facts (1) they’ll then need to spend the day at school (even if they didn’t get soaked or whatever, that’s a lot of exertion for early grade school kids before their day even begins) and (2) they’ll need to do the same walk home, after a full day?
For us, getting a preschooler to a school that’s about a 15 minute (adult) walk has entailed a combination of strollers, scooters and cars. Add a baby-copilot to the mix, and there’s another host of challenges. Honestly, the stroller years are a relative breeze. It’s grades 1 – 9 that I’m wondering about.
nonny, this might be a time to teach your kid a lesson and you know… have him frickin walk somewhere… he isn’t the damn center of the universe
“How would you get a 4/5 year old to school in the rain or on a 30 degree day, if the school is a 10 minute (adult) walk?”
You are worried about your kid being cold on a 30 degree day? (1) Seriously? (2) I mean seriously? (3) Really?
With rain, there are umbrella, rain jackets, wellies, and such. At my son’s prior school, they changed into indoor shoes anyway.
“that’s a lot of exertion for early grade school kids before their day even begins”
(a) getting some (a little) energy out is not a bad thing, (b) my wife would often let my son have some playground time before school, (c) they’re not doing manual labor at school, it’s just preschool or junior kindergarten or whatev you call it.
As for physical exertion before a school day, note that I was referring to early grade school kids, not preschool. The former go all day and the latter go a half day, if that.
As for temperatures, no, I’m not worried about 30 degree days. We’re out in the park, on the lakefront, at the playground, whatever, when it’s much worse than that (and, curiously, we’re often the only ones out there; I’m assuming those living out yonder are playing in their toasty rumpus rooms for which their SFH have ample space). The issue is what it’s like to be sitting in a stroller for at least 10 minutes when it’s raining or below freezing. Did your kid prefer to be strolled uncovered in such conditions?
Let me pose the question again: If your kids attend a school that’s at least a 10 minute-ADULT-pace away, and they’re between grades 1-9, how are they getting there and back?
“As for physical exertion before a school day, note that I was referring to early grade school kids, not preschool.”
I will find out I suppose but don’t see much difference. That’s why, depending on the kid, having some recess to blow of energy is important. And it’s a 10 minute walk.
“The issue is what it’s like to be sitting in a stroller for at least 10 minutes when it’s raining or below freezing.”
If she’s 4, that’s too old for a stroller.
“10 minute-ADULT-pace away”
I dunno about adult pace, but I surely hope your 4 yo can walk the distance between oh let’s just say the subject property and latin w/in 10 minutes.
a 10 minute walk for a child is now too much exertion before kindergarden… LMAO
your kid isn’t an endless ball of energy like every other one out there?
Please Stop! If you are paying $25k a year to send your kid to kindergarten at Latin you are:
A. Not walking
B. Not living in a $800,000 row house with no parking.
I actually remember my first day of Elementary School when I was 6. I left school and just walked home. My extremely over protective Mom just lost it because it was the first day of school and she was worried I would get lost. I remember the rest of the year being allowed to walk the 10 minutes back to my house.
I remember playing with my friends, two on the same bike, no helmets.
I remember making ramps and jumping those bikes “Kenevil Style”, again with no helmets..
I remember playing in the streeets.
I remember breaking plenty of things, bones and windows mostly…
Overall, grew up not being afraid of the world.. and that was good!
Kids are a bit too coddled these days, and not to sound like someone else, but coddling boys emasculates them…
“Please Stop! If you are paying $25k a year to send your kid to kindergarten at Latin you are:
A. Not walking”
My kid would walk… and damn well wouldn’t be pushed around in a stroller once he/she could walk. I want to scream every time I see some over sized fat kid being pushed in a stroller. I think the reason that I left the USA is so that I would never have to see that again.
Pepperidge farm remembers…
“Kids are a bit too coddled these days, and not to sound like someone else, but coddling boys emasculates them…”
Understatement of the Century…….
My kids have walked to school everyday since pre-k. About .5 miles one way.
Damn, in kindergarden I had to walk a mile to school and then back. OK – maybe it was a little less that a mile but it was close.
It was worse in first grade and after because I had to walk home (and back) for lunch too. It wasn’t just me, all of the kids in the neigbothood did. Somehow I was still fat by 3rd grade. I guess it would have been worse wihout all of the walking.
@anonny “How would you get a 4/5 year old to school in the rain or on a 30 degree day, if the school is a 10 minute (adult) walk? You wouldn’t use a covered stroller? ”
Are you kidding? My kids would throw a screaming fit if I tried to put them in the stroller at 4. They were big boys and wanted to walk.
“And are you saying that you’d have kids 6 years and older walking a 10-minute-adult-pace-distance, regardless of weather?”
Yes, except it is 15 minutes for us, and we’ve been walking since the older was 5, and the younger was 4. And they still have the energy to run around on the playground before school.
It’s amazing to me that Linda, and others in this thread, have small children who WALK AT AN ADULT PACE FOR 10 MINUTES OR MORE, everyday, to and from school. Be sure to get those kids in front of top college cross country scouts, because they clearly have both college scholarship and Olympic medal potential. If I’m walking at my norma pace, my 4-ish year old needs to be engaged in jogging/slow running in order to keep up. Either you’re all very slow walkers, I’m a very fast walker.
” If I’m walking at my norma pace, my 4-ish year old needs to be engaged in jogging/slow running in order to keep up. Either you’re all very slow walkers, I’m a very fast walker.”
1) We are all very slow
2) Anonny is very fast
I see a 3 here… 3) Your kid is slow and uncoordinated and will probably always be picked last in sports….
@anonny “Either you’re all very slow walkers, I’m a very fast walker.”
If the speed is an issue, you can get out of the house a few minutes earlier, and walk at the pace that is comfortable for your child.
Now that my kids are a little older, I’m actually the one who struggles to keep up, because they want to run, and I hate running.