“Vintage Charm” in this Norwood Park 3-Bedroom SFH: 5306 N. Normandy
This 3-bedroom single family home at 5306 N. Normandy in Norwood Park came on the market in September 2021.
I don’t have a picture of it, but given how quickly single family homes have been selling, I still wanted to crib about it.
Built in 1926, I can’t tell what the housing style is supposed to be.
It appears to be on a lot that is larger than the standard Chicago lot as it has a side driveway that leads to a 2-car garage behind the house, which apparently can also be accessed via the alley.
The listing says it has “vintage charm.”
The front of the house has a unique great room with 14 foot beamed vaulted ceilings with hand painted art detail on the walls and French doors that lead to a balcony overlooking the front yard.
There are two back-to-back wood burning fireplaces, one in the great room and one in the living room.
The dining room has crown moldings, wainscoting and wall moldings.
All three bedrooms are on the second floor.
The house doesn’t have central air. It has window cooling units.
There is an unfinished basement which has a laundry room.
The new Lexington Park townhouses in Norwood Park on Talcott, that are going to be listed for $600,000 to $800,000, are north of I-90 whereas this house is south of I-90.
Listed at $315,000, is this a deal?
Acimina Bachas and Brian Gamboa at Duarte Realty have the listing. See the pictures here.
5306 N. Normandy: 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 1620 square feet
- Sold in December 2002 for $135,000
- Currently listed at $315,000
- Taxes of $5757
- No central air- window units
- 2 wood burning fireplaces
- 2-car garage
- Bedroom #1: 13×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 11×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 8×12 (second floor)
- Living room: 15×12 (main floor)
- Great room: 15×20 (main floor)
- Dining room: 15×12 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 10×17 (main floor)
- Basement: 25×24 (lower level)
Potentially a really cool space. Get some period correct appliances and the kitchen would rock. Love the mosaic tile in the green bathroom.
Couple of negatives
– driveway doesn’t add much with alley access
– lack of a backyard
– looks like there’s been some poor rework in the bathrooms
– shitty job painting the entryway woodwork
Hopefully some Chud doesn’t paint the ceiling white.
Price seems fair and throwing $100-150k into this would make it shine
Maybe get rid of the side driveway? Do you need it?
Move the garage all the way to the alley. You might get a back porch that way.
Love that great room. So unique.
Not sure many of the regular snarkers follow the market in Norwood Park.
Their neighbor has my pool! Hopefully that doesn’t hurt their showings.
This area is just a little out of my target area. The house itself is cool and it would be interesting to fix it. I would go check it out if it was was a little bit north east.
The pool next door would be a negative for me, but anyone can put a pool in at any time, so it’s not as though I would be safe from pool noises just because the neighbor at time of purchase doesn’t have a pool.
Very charming house for the money, just needs some work and redecorating. Love the vaulted ceiling in the living room.
The worst thing you can say about this safe, quiet, and convenient neighborhood is that it’s boring. It will never by my favorite neighborhood, but most people would agree that there are worse things than boredom, especially when you have kids, and can get an attractive, livable house for a reasonable price.
“The worst thing you can say about this safe, quiet, and convenient neighborhood is that it’s boring.”
How’s the O’Hare noise?
This is on the wrong side of the Kennedy (south of it) to be considered prime Norwood/Edison/Park Ridge. Kind of a no-man’s land. Better off in the aforementioned or go to Norridge itself.
I was wondering about the O’hare noise too, @anon. You’d really have to spend some time in the area on different days to see if it was OK. A friend was telling me that they recently changed flight patterns to try to split up the noise between the neighborhoods on different days, but neighborhoods that previously had little noise are experiencing a lot of noise on certain days. I think it would end up annoying me a lot and it makes me second guest moving to the far northwest side. I haven’t heard plane sounds while in Edgebrook or Sauganash, but I might just not have been there on a bad day. This neighborhood appears to be even closer to O’hare.
“I haven’t heard plane sounds while in Edgebrook or Sauganash, but I might just not have been there on a bad day.”
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You must have had earplugs in. Sauganash is just plain brutal, all day every day.
I believe the style is called “Tudor” and it is already under contract. What a gem – – I would love to fix this up.
For the person that down-voted my comment that this is in the Tudor style: https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a24516941/tudor-style-house/
Questionable mid-century updates to the interior aside, exterior ornament is Tudor. The great room is a mash up of gothic, palladian and tudor. This was definitely someone wanting a little bit of everything that exuded wealth to a post WWI suburbanite.
Eyesore of the neighborhood. Maybe the new owners will tear it down? Is there a yard for entertaining?
Let’s stop talking about this house, as it sold for $310,000 in October. Sorry for the new posters trying to comment on it now.
Maybe it will come back on the market renovated?