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| 1051 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
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Sold for $1,050,000 in 07/2010
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by
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Cervone Deegan & Associates
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(617) 796-8607
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| List Price: |
$1,100,000 |
| Type: |
Single-family |
| Status: |
Sold |
| Style: |
Victorian |
| # of Rooms: |
11 |
| # of Bedrooms: |
5 |
| # of Full Baths: |
1 |
| # of Half Baths: |
1 |
| Living Area (sq. ft.): |
4,463 |
| Lot Size (sq. ft.): |
15,682 |
| Parking Spaces: |
4 |
| Garage Spaces: |
0 |
| Heating: |
HW Radiators, Radiant, Gas, 2 zone(s) |
| Cooling: |
None, 0 zone(s) |
| Fireplaces: |
3 |
| Year Built: |
1870 |
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“Something with a complete scene as opposed to a repeating pattern. Perhaps a large house set back. Fill it with children...Close your eyes and imagine the smells of cooked food wafting from the kitchen. A canary in the window that sings on command. Clouds in the blue sky; eating outside at the redwood table...
We all love each other.”
- Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
“We may leave a house but never its memories, never its voices.”
- Diane Hannah
Every now and again an extraordinary, cherished home enters the marketplace. Situated along the Emerald Necklace with its abundant green spaces, blue ponds, flora and fauna, Boston’s Jamaica Plain holds several such treasures. Built in the late 1800’s, the Heggie House as it is locally known, is a grand, architecturally significant Queen Anne that stands as a captivating portrait of the community’s early development. It is believed that the same family, the Heggies, lived in the house for most of the 20th century and still bears their name plate on the front door, undisturbed. Mr. Heggie was a prominent businessman in the scrap metal business and purportedly bought the house after Ellen Clark who lived there until her death in 1889. Set on over 15,000 sq ft, the two and a half story single family home boasts intact, ornate period detail throughout. On the exterior find bays, side gables, diamond-pane windows and 2 inset porches. Additionally, a rare carriage house with a cupola, originally the stable of this estate, graces the lot.
The interior echoes a world from a different time. Generous rooms offer lavish original details in abundant natural and painted woodwork including wainscoting, built-ins, fireplace mantles, deep moldings, pocket doors, leaded glass, sconces and quarter-sawn oak floors: a grand foyer and staircase, double-parlor with wood-burning fireplaces, stunning formal dining room with signature filigree balusters that flank openings on either side of the broad arch. The original butler’s pantry leads to an expansive eat-in kitchen styled to reflect the period of this home - with Rutt cherry cabinetry, granite counters, prep sink, high-end stainless-steel appliances, radiant heat, tin ceiling, a breakfast bar and French doors to the bluestone patio and fenced yard. Upper floors host sleeping quarters including 5 bedrooms, a nursery, a dazzling marble bath and a sprawling top floor family/media room. A new slate roof, copper gutters and downspouts, recessed lights and updated systems including irrigation bring this home into the 21st century. Across from the Arboretum and in the mottled sunlight of an ancient copper beech tree, the past and the future live graciously intertwined in this exceptional and timeless residence. |
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