Property Description
This amazing fifteen room house is filled with architectural beauty, such as, many swirled plaster ceilings, one beamed ceiling, four rooms with window cornices, French doors, a beautiful decorative glass front door, beautiful woodwork throughout, arched doorways three, stained glass windows, and original light fixtures. There is a two car detached garage and roomy shed. All are vinyl sided and the house and garage have newer roofs, gutters with gutter guards and a newer paved driveway. The garage has a newer metal overhead door. There are hardwood floors throughout, three full baths, 8 bedrooms, two kitchens which come with most appliances, laundry area with washer and dryer, two family rooms, two dining rooms, entry /sitting room, one enclosed mud room, two enclosed porches, three additional porches and a full basement for storage. There are window air conditioners in all second and third floor bedrooms, as well as units in the first and second floor living areas. Also, on the first floor there is a laundry area with washer and dryer hook ups, with washer and dryer included. In the basement, there is another area with washer and dryer hook ups (washer and dryer not included in this area). All living areas have been deleaded. It has newer replacement windows and storm doors. It has two newer oversized water heaters, oil burners and one newer oil tank. The oil burners produce steam heat. All radiators have beautiful hand crafted radiator covers. There are emergency lights on the second to first floor and third to second floor stair ways. These lights go on automatically, when there is a power failure. The hard wired smoke and CO2 detectors, along with a state of the art fire escape off the third floor and a large, high capacity, emergency back up generator help towards making this a safe and worry free home. The second and third floor windows have window guards to protect children from falling, but allow windows to be left opened. The nicely landscaped yard has loads of perennial flowers and bushes, apple tree, dogwood tree, strawberry and raspberry plants and is fenced in. The newer paved driveway can accommodate 4 or more vehicles.
This well maintained home has 3, 844 square feet of living space, not counting a large enclosed first floor porch and smaller enclosed second floor porch. It is situated on a double sized lot across from the rear of Forest Park, which offers summertime splash pads for children, pool, children's petting zoo, train, playgrounds, beautiful gardens, picnic area, walking, biking and jogging areas, athletic fields and more. There is easy access to bus lines and local shopping is within walking distance. The elementary school and middle school are within walking distance, as well. There is easy access to route 91 North and South and area hospitals.
This beautiful, 1914, Boston Duplex is a versatile property, in that it could be used as a single family home with eight bedrooms and three full baths, as it is presently being used or can be easily and inexpensively transferred into a legal, two family duplex, by simply removing a small door fame and replacing the opening with wallboard thus transforming it into a two family. The first apartment consists of one large master bedroom, one average sized bedroom, a full bath, a T.V. room, a large entry/sitting area, and dinning room, kitchen with walk-in pantry, as well as a closet pantry, laundry area, large enclosed front porch, a mud room at side entrance and an open back porch with large storage cabinets. This apartment continues on to the second floor with two average sized bedrooms and a second full bath. The other apartment has four bedrooms (three oversized bedrooms and one average sized bedroom), as well as one full bath on the third floor, with kitchen and walk-in pantry, as well as closet pantry, dinning room, family room, T.V. room, an enclosed front porch off the family room and a large open porch in the rear of the house on the second floor. Both apartments have linen closets and coat closets. Each apartment unit has a separate oil tank, oil burner, oil heated hot water tank and electric meter, for separate billing purposes.
With the deleading certificate, completely fenced in yard and having window guards on all second and third floor windows, this property lends itself well to becoming a child day care center or foster care home or a rental property for families with young children. Please browse through the photos, understanding that you can t appreciate the size of the individual rooms or the beauty of this home without seeing it in person.
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