Best New Listings: Traditional Homes and Room to Expand

• July 26th 2019

by Nena Perry-Brown

This week’s Best New Listings includes traditional early 20th-century homes in Silver Spring and Lincoln Park, and an Alexandria three-bedroom with approved permits.

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Wraparound Porch and Traditional Wallpaper

A skylit porch with bench swing wraps around three sides of this four-bedroom listing in Silver Spring. The interior has a traditional style with recently-refinished hardwood flooring and trim throughout the main level and a foyer with William Morris wallpaper. The side-by-side living and family rooms both have pentagonal shapes and the latter also has an angled brick fireplace. The upstairs landing creates a reading nook and hosts the laundry room and three bedrooms sharing a full bath. Two of the bedrooms follow the pentagonal footprint of the rooms below and the third has access to a private balcony. The uppermost level serves as the spacious owner's suite beneath a cove and pitched ceiling, featuring an exposed brick column, built-in window seat, and walk-in closet. The spacious lot also has a two-car detached garage.

• Full Listing: 609 Ritchie Avenue (map)
• Price: $865,000
• Bedrooms: Four
• Bathrooms: 2.5
• Square Feet: 2,566
• Year Built: 1911
• Listing Agent: Dan Metcalf, Long & Foster Real Estate

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Solar-Powered Near Lincoln Park

A red brick path leads up to this early 20th-century Lincoln Park rowhouse, which has a traditional interior with a front bay window and an adjacent fireplace. The kitchen has extensive cabinetry and counter space, including a breakfast bar abutting the family room, where a wall of built-ins includes recessed display lighting. Off the skylit landing, the owner's bedroom also has a bay window with a storage bench and an en-suite with double vanity. The third bedroom has a door to a screened-in balcony. The lower level has English basement-style access at both the front and the rear of the house, as well as a bay window, full bath, laundry room with extra storage, and a wine closet beneath the stairs. The house also enjoys built-in speakers, solar panels, a detached garage, a brick patio, and a pergola-covered flagstone patio.

• Full Listing: 1333 East Capitol Street SE (map)
• Price: $1,525,000
• Bedrooms: Four
• Bathrooms: 3.5
• Square Feet: 2,376
• Year Built: 1907
• Listing Agent: Pam Wye, Compass

Photo courtesy of HomeVisit.

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An Alexandria Tudor with Room to Grow

Over in Alexandria, this Tudor boasts many traditional features, including a skylit vaulted ceiling with exposed beams and trusses in the living room, with white-painted wood panel walls and a herringbone-patterned brick fireplace. The formal dining room has a pair of triangular built-in shelving-and-cabinet units on either side of a window. The family room has a wall of built-ins surrounding a window, and an adjacent den has two sets of sliding glass doors out to the rear patio. There is a bedroom suite on the main level, and the upstairs landing overlooks the living room below, along with an upstairs bedroom with barn doors concealing an office nook amid built-ins. A detached garage is accessible from both the backyard and the driveway, and there are approved plans and permits to add a full bedroom, bathroom and den below-grade.

• Full Listing: 108 W Bellefonte Avenue (map)
• Price: $879,900
• Bedrooms: Three
• Bathrooms: Two
• Square Feet: 1,632
• Year Built: 1933
• Listing Agent: Phil Cefaratti, Potomac River, Realtors

Photo courtesy of Deb Antonini-Cefaratti.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/best-new-listings-traditional-homes-and-room-to-expand/15703.