Year built 1949
Square feet 1,422
Bedrooms 3
Baths 1 full
Sewer/Water Public
Taxes $5,570 (2025)
It’s certain no Pilgrim broke bread here, but this Hyde Park home is nevertheless tethered to New England’s history.
This 76-year-old home is a Cape Cod design, which the original settlers brought over from England and then used so widely in the region the design was given its iconic name.
In this iteration, a white picket fence protects the front yard, and a concrete sidewalk leads to the porch of brick and stone slabs and the steps that end at the front door.
Stepping inside, there is a key aspect of a Cape-style home: a wooden stairway to the upper level sitting nearly dead center of the first floor.
The stairwell cuts this level into two, and on the left is the larger side, the 179-square-foot living room. This space highlights a second key feature of this home; the flooring is hardwood original to the home. This is found throughout the first level, except for the kitchen, the mud room, and the home’s one full bath. The living room is sunny due to a pair of double-hung windows on the front exterior wall and a third double-hung window on the left exterior wall. A door in the right rear opens to a short hallway and the remainder of the home.
But a journey is best recounted from the beginning, and the foyer does allow one to turn to the right and the 125-square-foot formal dining room.
Since this is what an architectural historian would call a 3/4 Cape — that is, one window to the right of the door, and two windows to the left — there is just one double-hung window on the front exterior wall that is complemented by a second on the right exterior wall. Flooring is hardwood and a ceiling fan with light serves as the central light fixture for the room.
The dining room leads to the 125-square-foot kitchen where the flooring shifts from hardwood to vinyl. To the right is a cabinet with hardwood countertop today used for coffee machine and a microwave. The stainless steel appliances include a double oven and electric cooktop, dishwasher, and refrigerator. The cabinets, painted white, appear to be original to the home, and the countertops are laminate as is the backsplash. The sink is underneath a smaller double-size window.
The kitchen has a doorway to a 12-foot-long side entry/mudroom with vinyl flooring, two closets, and a large plate glass window. There is a rear door connecting to the back deck that has a stairwell leading to the flat, rear yard.
Flooring returns to hardwood in the hallway to the left of the kitchen. It holds the stairway to the basement and provides access to both the single full bath and a first-floor bedroom.
The 43-square-foot bathroom is on the right and features a single wooden vanity with white sink, hexagonal tile flooring, and half-wall Nantucket beadboard on the walls. There is a shower/bath combination featuring subway tile backsplash with a mosaic accent tile strip.
The final room on the floor is the 126-square-foot bedroom with lighted fan positioned in the center of the ceiling. There are two double-hung widows, and internal storage is a closet with white louvered bifold doors.
The center stairwell ends at a hallway with a closet directly ahead. And further evidence of the echoes of architectural history is the fact that two bedrooms — including one designated as the primary — run off this main hallway as is true for nearly every other home of this style.
The primary bedroom has a central light fixture and natural light arriving from the single window at the end of the 15-foot-long room. There is a closet and built-in storage in the knee wall. The Cape’s roof line creates the angled ceiling.
The second bedroom shares the same design albeit in slightly smaller dimensions. The room is 10 feet long and totals 129 square feet.
The basement is divided. There is a 386-square-foot finished area with wood paneling for the walls and brown and cream tile for the flooring. There is a bar created out of wood paneling in one corner. Natural light arrives from above ground rectangular windows at opposite ends of the room. The remainder of this level is 393 square feet of utilitarian space with the full-size washer and dryer along with a door to the flat backyard.
Among recent updates are a new roof, new mini-split air conditioning, and new heating system. The 5,220-square-foot lot includes two parking spaces.
CJ Lee of CJ Lee Real Estate of Redfin in Boston has the listing.
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