5 Must-See Open Houses This Weekend
Would you believe that four of this week’s featured houses are old enough to make it onto the historic register?
Bright MLS images via Keller Williams Premier
Modernist domestic architecture has been around long enough that houses like this week’s five now appear on the National Register of Historic Places. And yet mid-century modern and contemporary houses still look and feel fresh and new. Want proof? Go visit one or more of these.
Bucks County
905 Hunt Drive, Yardley (above) / 5 beds, 4 full/1 half baths, 4,704 square feet, $1,250,000
Open house: Sunday, July 14th, 1 to 3 p.m.
This recently renovated 1980s pleasure palace has everything you need to accommodate and entertain your friends and relatives, inside and out.
Kitchen, family room and sunroom
Underneath its multiple gables you will find a main floor that includes a comfortable living room, an even more comfortable family room, a formal dining room, a well-equipped eat-in kitchen, a sunroom, and two more rooms that could serve as guest bedrooms or home office/studio space. Four more bedrooms, three more baths, and a spiral staircase leading to a loft make up the second floor.
Down below, you will find a home theater, playroom and workshop. And in back, you will find a large paver patio with a fire pit, koi pond and enclosed gazebo. All of this sits on 1.5 professionally landscaped acres.
905 Hunt Dr., Yardley, PA 19067 [Patricia Hogan | Keller Williams Premier]
Bright MLS images via Keller Williams Real Estate – Exton
Chester County
396 Brookwood Drive, Downingtown / 4 beds, 3 full/1 half baths, 3,345 square feet, $735,000
Open house: Sunday, July 14th, noon to 3 p.m.
This contemporary house would look right at home in the Brandywine Valley at the southern edge of the county, but it’s just as comfortable here in its northern reaches.
Its soaring foyer leads to a living room with a vaulted ceiling and a formal dining room next to it. Next to the dining room sit a large contemporary kitchen and casual dining area.
Sunroom
A skylit sunroom behind the dining room leads to a deck that’s also accessible from the kitchen. You will find four bedrooms and three full baths on the second floor. The finished basement has a space that’s perfect for a media lounge or rec room, and it also has a bonus room and full bath that together can serve as a guest or in-law suite.
396 Brookwood Dr., Downingtown, PA 19335 [Dave Ashe and Jul Bhangaonkar | Dave Ashe Team | Keller Williams Real Estate – Exton]
Bright MLS images via Compass
Delaware County
315 Edgehill Road, Wayne / 4 beds, 4 full/1 half baths, 3,904 square feet, $1,899,900
Open houses: Friday, July 19th, 3 to 5 p.m., and Sunday, July 21st, 1 to 3 p.m.
This vintage 1956 residence combines the best elements of midcentury modern and contemporary design. Set on a wooded 1.45-acre lot, this house’s wood-and-stone exterior harmonizes beautifully with the greenery surrounding it.
Living room
It offers just as much warmth on the inside as it does on the outside. Its living room features a low-slung cathedral ceiling and a wood-framed wood-burning fireplace. (Another one of these graces the family room.) Multiple decks, patios and balconies next to oversized windows offer each of the main-floor living spaces connections to the outside, while a stone accent wall brings the outside into the deluxe modern kitchen.
The four bedrooms in the wing to the left of the foyer are as spacious and airy as the living spaces. The bathroom in the primary bedroom suite also has a heated towel rack.
315 Edgehill Rd., Wayne, PA 19087 [Lavinia Smerconish | Compass]
Bright MLS images via Compass
Montgomery County
1041 Waverly Road, Gladwyne / 4 beds, 4 full/1 half baths, 5,276 square feet, $2,250,000
Open house: Sunday, July 14th, 11 a.m. to noon
A nature preserve sits across the road from this mid-century modern estate, but you may be forgiven for thinking that the preserve includes the professionally landscaped 1.18 acres on which this retreat sits.
Library
Inside that mid-century modern shell you will find a strikingly handsome high modern vision in white. Almost all of its main living spaces contain expansive windows that bring the greenery in, especially the two-story-high library and the den next to the kitchen. (You can put on a cooking show for two of your dinner guests at the kitchen island.)
With three dining spaces, this house is equipped to handle a huge dinner party. And with a resort-like backyard that features a large deck, pool, tennis court and dining area with a grill, you can also throw quite the summer bash as well.
1041 Waverly Rd., Gladwyne, PA 19035 [Lavinia Smerconish | Compass]
/ Bright MLS images via Compass
Philadelphia
4029 Apalogen Road, East Falls / 4 beds, 3 baths, 3,283 square feet, $1,450,000
Open house: Saturday, July 13th, noon to 2 p.m.
This mid-century modern classic sits in the middle of that section of East Falls near the Thomas Jefferson University campus that’s chock-full of them.
Living room
Beamed ceilings, stone walls and wood paneling give its living spaces plenty of warmth, and large full-height windows give them plenty of light. The kitchen boasts Viking professional-grade appliances, and a wood-burning pizza oven sits on the deck next to the kitchen and family room.
This house also has a main-floor primary suite, a feature that was ahead of its time for a two-story house built in 1954. (Though it should be apparent from the exterior photo that the main floor is the upper one.) And it sits on a quiet cul-de-sac that’s close to major highways, SEPTA Regional Rail and Wissahickon Valley Park, giving you both privacy and convenient access to everything East Falls has to offer.
4029 Apalogen Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19129 [Gary Steinberg | Compass]
