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This Queen Anne Victorian in Malden has been completely restored inside and out with preserved original woodworking and a grand two-story turret window.
The two-family home at 41 Grace St. in the city’s West End neighborhood has a two-floor owner’s unit and an 800-square-foot one-bedroom tenant’s unit on the top floor that brings in $1,200 a month in rental income. The price of this six-bedroom, 3,519-square-foot house has been reduced to $649,000, just $184 a square foot.
This home has quarter-sewn oak floors, gumwood doors and molding and a variety of chandeliers, including one from Venice that is blown glass.
The exterior of the beige clapboard house, completely restored in 2002, combines Queen Anne and High Victorian styles, with a side turret, a large front porch, a curved second floor and a gable-topped third floor. A restored mahogany entryway leads inside from the porch. An original gumwood door with leaded glass fanlights opens into the grand foyer of the owner’s unit, with a curved riser staircase with a dramatic two-story leaded-glass window.
Pocket doors lead into one of two parlors with curved windows, chandeliers and quarter-sewn oak floors. The adjacent second parlor, featuring a wood-burning fireplace with a gumwood mantel and a bookshelf built-in, has been outfitted with a surround-sound system. Off this room is a formal dining room with four windows plus an original stained-glass piano window. This room has a magnificent Venetian blown-glass chandelier hanging from a plaster medallion.
The house’s kitchen, redone in 2002, features 20 white cabinets, some new, others restored originals with many large pantry cabinets. There are beige granite counters and Frigidaire Gallery stainless-steel appliances. Off the kitchen, a full bath with a pedestal sink, white subway tile walls and a one-piece shower was added in 2002.
The turning front staircase with a crystal chandelier and the turret window leads up to five bedrooms on the second floor. The front-facing master bedroom features curved windows with bull’s eye molding, wide-pine floors and a deep closet with a built-in cabinet and wardrobe. The other four bedrooms are smaller, but there’s a large walk-in closet with a built-in wardrobe connecting two of them. The bathroom on this floor, redone in 2007, has a beige marble tile floor, beadboard wainscoting, a stained-glass window, an antique vanity topped with black marble and the house’s original clawfoot tub.
The basement also features a bath added in 2002 with a large whirlpool tub. There’s a laundry area with a soapstone sink and washer/dryer and an area that holds the home’s energy-efficient, three-zone gas-fired heating and central air-conditioning systems added in 2002.
The tenant unit’s kitchen was upgraded in 2005. The house’s asphalt-shingled roof was replaced last year.
Outside the home is a back yard with a brick patio and there’s a detached two-car garage at the end of a long driveway.
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