Love the East Coast but live in Denver?
This is your home!
Described by visitors as "reminds me of my brother's home, a former presidential summer home in Washington DC" or "like the Vanderbilt mansion in Hyde Park, New York" this house is built in the Adams style.
You get the Adams feeling before you open the front door... the rounded porches on each floor of the east and west sides of the home, the symmetrical windows with window boxes and shutters.
Once you enter, you are in for a real treat! The oval entry has four rounded door coat closets, passageways into the living and dining rooms with matching niches, and a beautiful stairway.
The formal dining room will seat two dozen guests if you choose! It has doorways into a maid's room or into the butler's pantry with original tin drainboard, hammered sink and room for all your inherited china!
The living room is also very formal with a huge mantle flanked by original built-in bookcases. It has a door leading to a small study or nursery. To balance the study door is a matching door with no knob... it goes nowhere... the exterior wall of the house is behind it.
Up the staircase to the second floor, you have the double master bedrooms, each with its own full bath connecting to a sitting room or 5th bedroom. Two small bedrooms were combined to make one beautiful bedroom or study. And then there is the sweetest nursery or study!
The basement is full with an exterior entrance, a large family room, store rooms, an old summer kitchen... you will think of Upstairs/Downstairs!
And yes, there is yard. From the kitchen or living room porch, there is a large brick patio with shrubbery to hide the basement and kitchen entrances. While barbecuing, you don't want to be reminded of where the dishes are accumulating!
And on the west side of the house is a very pleasant lawn, just picture croquet games!
A very special home awaiting a very special owner... someone who wants the best, at an affordable price, and the opportunity to make a historic home their own. Come take a look and be prepared, you will be awed!