A five-bedroom, 6,100-square-foot traditional brick mansion in Lincoln Park that former Chicago White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell as quickly as owned provided on March 24 for $2.12 million.
McDowell, 57, pitched for the White Sox from 1987 until 1994, and was a three-time All-Star and a Cy Younger Award winner. After his 13-year Main League Baseball career resulted in 1999, McDowell continued participating in guitar in a rock band. In 2021, he managed a summer season collegiate baseball crew in Burlington, N.C. — not faraway from his dwelling base in Charlotte.
In Lincoln Park, McDowell paid $450,000 in 1991 for the two-story residence. He provided it in 2002 for $975,000 to the couple who merely provided it.
The sellers expanded the mansion in 2005 with a 3,500-square-foot addition. Located on an extra-wide, 38-foot lot, the mansion has 5-1/2 loos, an related and heated storage, personalized woodwork, millwork, hardwood flooring all by means of, 10-foot ceilings on the first stage, nine-foot ceilings elsewhere, an distinctive entrance door and mantel and 4 distinctive stained glass residence home windows.
Different choices embody a Christopher Peacock kitchen with soapstone counter tops, a giant train room on the lower stage, an au pair suite on the lower stage, seven skylights and a wall of residence home windows to the south. Exterior are three decks and a storage roof deck with cedar decking.
“(This) is a really particular residence for a lot of causes moreover the apparent (ones) — a 38-foot-wide metropolis lot, an hooked up heated storage and proximity to Armitage Avenue and Adams Park,” itemizing agent Monique Pieron of @properties instructed Elite Avenue. “My sellers added 3,500 sq. ft to the unique residence, and it was a labor of affection making a 6,000-square-foot-plus residence to boost their youngsters. They labored with a carpenter to protect the unique woodwork and duplicate it all through the addition to keep up a number of the authentic character by preserving the unique hearth and added some stained glass. Additionally they added floor-to-ceiling home windows and doorways going through south, opening as much as an enormous facet deck to permit for plentiful pure gentle. They added seven skylights, permitting for pure gentle all day lengthy, which may be very uncommon in older classic houses. You’d by no means be capable to construct this degree of high quality residence in the present day for anyplace close to the place it bought for.”
The mansion first was listed in February for $2.295 million. It went beneath contract merely eight days later.
Public knowledge don’t however decide the shoppers. Nonetheless, Emily Sachs Wong of @properties, who represented the shoppers, instructed Elite Avenue that “it was a implausible home with numerous extensive, open areas, in a beautiful location near the children’ park.”
The mansion had a $32,980 property tax bill inside the 2021 tax 12 months.
Goldsborough is a contract reporter.
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