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check out the kitchen in this baby! I believe these to be all the builder's original appliances, Tappan.

If this had a basement I'd be buying based just on the kitchen!

especially since the house number is a Hoover model number of sorts too..!

 
I've looked at that one Pete...

Its right up the road from my current place. Its a tri-level, but very small, 1200 sq feet...
If I remember right the people that live there have a Kirby Legend II vacuum.
 
my list:

1600-2000 sq feet
3 bedrooms
master bath(2.5 total baths)
2 car garage
full basement(somewhat finished)
fenced yard for Jack
 
jason!! are you ok??

I said pretty much the same thing when I saw that kitchen!

The house is 1971 vintage, and that kitchen looks mostly original. Those appliances would be Tappan I think.

This is in a small size subdivision in Elk Grove called "Astronauts" There are 6 or 8 horseshoe shaped streets and two ringer streets, all named after early astronauts, Cernan, Carpenter, Glenn, Boreman, Cooper, ect... click on the "map & directions" link to see what how its laid out.

Since its empty I've called my realtor and requested a showing in person, it looks too cool to not go see!!
 
veg....lmao

That house is way too fabulous! Shame about the size issue! Gee, that sounded wrong =)
 
size issue...

Hmmm... if it had a basement I would be making an offer now!

Veg: I can just hear my realtor now "Gee is that a dishwasher in your pants or do you just like the house?"
 
Looks like many of the ranch houses in the neighborhood were all built by the same builder with those ceilings and all. Do any of those have basements. Finishing off a basement isn't as hard as you can imagine but just a lot of work. Our first house had an unfinished basement so I took a 5 night course at the local community college on basement finishing, yes they had that course lol, and boy I was sure glad I did when it came time to work on ours. One of the funniest things that happened was when we first got started on the framing. We had all the 2x4's downstairs and I was measuring the varying heights from floor to upper floor joists looking for the lowest point. While I held the tape measure up at the joists my partner was taking the reading on the tape measure down at the floor, he said something like 67 inches, so we set off cutting the lumber and building the first frame. When we went to lift it into place it was like a foot short. He starts yelling at me yada yada yada. So I look at his paper and he's got 67 inches written.. we measure again and its 97 inches, he'd been reading it upside down or something and goofed, of course it was still my fault according to him. Anyways it turned out great, the only part I hated and would never ever do again was taping and sanding the joints, I'd pay someone to come in a do that part. All that awful dust..
 
Pete,
Most of Elk Grove was built by the same builder, Centex Construction co. Most likely these were built without basements because of cost, as this Conrad house probably cost about $30,000 new in 1971. Centex wanted their house to be affordable. Hence they all have crawl spaces, and some more ambitious home owners have added basements. These houses were designed to be built on to.

Just to the north of "Astronauts" is a street called White Trail, its the "model home" street for Astronauts, and for Winston Grove/Winston Grove West. No two houses on the street are alike. Its kinda cool to drive down that street and look at all the different models built from 1971-1980.
The Winston Grove houses had basements available, and today are selling in the $350-400K range.
 
Have you seen..

the original 1950's house in Rolling Meadows?
We used to have a crash pad in Rolling Meadows several years ago and the city of Rolling Meadows built a 1950's home from original blueprints and furnished it with 1950's furniture. It's open to the public.It's quite something to see!
 
Rolling Meadows

I have not seen that house(and I work in Rolling Meadows too!) but I have heard about it a few times, its the RM historical museum, and the house is one of the original Kimball-Hill plans from the 50's

As Centex built Elk Grove, Campanelli Homes was building Schaumburg, Hoffman Homes was building Hoffman Estates, and Kimball-Hill was building Rolling Meadows.
 
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