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Just one block off the bustling Germantown Avenue retail corridor in Chestnut Hill sits this quirky three-story home that comes with a nice backstory.
In the late 1920s, an artist named Carroll S Tyson, Jr. decided to buy the property—not for himself, but for his good friend Arthur Beecher Carles, a well-known American Modernist painter. But the fairly drab home needed some work, so Tyson, Jr. hired architect Edmund B. Gilchrist to lead the redesign.
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Keeping in mind that Gilchrist was designing an artist’s future residence, he had the roof lifted in order to accommodate a third floor studio. Today, that third floor leads to a roof deck via a spiral staircase. The 4,446-square-foot home also now boasts a lot of natural light, thanks to a wealth of windows, including an enormous skylight in the artist’s studio.
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There are other nice details that add some character to the home, including large built-ins, a Dutch door that opens to the landscaped back yard, and interior window shutters.
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But perhaps the quirkiest room of them all is the kitchen, which features lime green cabinets and multi-colored flooring.
The asking price of this 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath home is $795,000.
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- 191 E. Evergreen Avenue [Elfant Wissahickon Realtors]