Chicago Archdiocese pays $1.65 million for Lincoln Park home to be used as parish priest residence
Built in 2011, the house fell into foreclosure before it was completed. (Bob Goldsborough/Chicago Tribune)
The Archdiocese of Chicago recently paid $1.65 million for a four-bedroom, 3,044-square-foot house on an upscale Lincoln Park street and is using the home as a residence for parish priests at the nearby St. Clement Catholic Church.
On May 30, the Archdiocese’s corporate entity, the Catholic Bishop of Chicago, bought the house, which had not been formally listed, from Bill and Kathryn Linville.
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Susan Thomas, the public relations and communications manager for the Archdiocese of Chicago, told Elite Street that St. Clement Parish will use the house “for parish use, including use as a residence for parish priests.”
Built in 2011, the house fell into foreclosure before it was completed. The bank then sealed up the house but neglected to turn off the water in the house, and a water pipe on the third floor froze and burst, causing extensive damage.
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The Linvilles bought the damaged shell of the house for $1.025 million in 2013 and had a builder friend gut the interior and renovate it. Earlier this year, the Linvilles were planning on moving to the western suburbs to be closer to children and grandchildren, so they began thinking about putting the home on the market.
At that same time, a neighbor who is involved at St. Clement told the Linvilles that the church was interested in buying a house as a residence for priests. The two sides quickly reached a deal without the house ever formally going on the market.
“It works out really nicely for (St. Clement) because the house, like a lot of those homes in Lincoln Park, is a four-level house, so they have a main level which is the second level because it has a raised basement, and they have a couple of priests on the top level and a couple on the second level,” Bill Linville told Elite Street.
“It’s a real fortuitous story. You almost have to say there was providence. And it was a real pleasant transaction too. They were gentlemen, as you would hope, and the people that oversee finance on a volunteer basis for the parish all did exactly what they said they’d do.”
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