SOLD FROM THE PLN.... Unique home for the creative buyer looking for a conveniently-located home in Evanston's West Village, Washington School District. It offers location, large yard, comparatively low taxes, good bones, and lots of square footage that can be tweaked to fit your exact needs. Legally a brick two-flat - but currently lived in as a single-family home - 1024 Darrow provides space galore and many options for various styles of living, growing with you as your needs may change. Newly painted fresh white palette, newly installed windows, with many additional improvements listed below. 4 BDR, 3 BTHS have allowed for current family to enjoy a first-floor Master Suite and the entire second floor retreat for their teenagers. Make this home even more "your own" with minor modifications, in a neighborhood that supports this type of investment! Welcoming front porch leads you inside to the foyer and first floor boasts a large living room with wood-burning fireplace opening to the formal dining room. Two bedrooms with larger closets plus full bath with jacuzzi tub / shower combo. Stainless steel kitchen with pantry closet - updated from original - opens to a separate breakfast nook overlooking the outside large deck and yard equipped with treehouse and firepit patio, not to mention large lawn area and beautiful jasmine bushes! Off the kitchen is also the back stairs mudroom. The second floor boasts a family room, den, game room plus 2 bedrooms and full bath. Enclosed insulated 2nd floor back porch is extra space that can be used for office. Hardwood throughout first and second floors. Full, finished, ceramic-tiled basement is a non-conforming in-law arrangement and has a separate entrance and is outfitted with its own functioning kitchenette, large open area currently used as rec room plus two separate rooms with large closets and a full bath. Lots of options for storage, craft area and/or home gym. Separate laundry room with side-by-side washer and dryer in basement, and built-in wall shelving. Two-car garage off paved alley, also with new roof. Two electric panels and two furnaces. Recent improvements include: new windows (2021), new paint throughout (2021), new roof (2020), new drain tile and sump pump (2018), new kitchen, baths, HVAC / plumbing / electrical (2006). A block from the new Robert Crown Community Center and fields, and award-winning Washington Elementary School, currently one of the Two-Way Immersion schools in Evanston; half mile to ETHS. 2 blocks to Dodge/Dempster /Main public transportation, Valli Produce and all that Evanston Plaza has to offer; close to McCormick thoroughfare, a mile from Dempster and Main Street trains. ***Must see this unique home in person... can also easily be turned back into a multi-unit for turnkey owner-occupied investment, or straight investment property.

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