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Article: Tall ceilings, French doors, and a mystery
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2007
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HOME OF THE WEEK
8 Montrose St.,
Roxbury
Price $439,000
Style Gothic Revival
Built 1845
Square feet 2,494
Rooms 8
Bedrooms 3
Bathrooms 1.5
Sewer Public
Resting on thick rectangles of native puddingstone and within
walking distance of resurgent Dudley Square is a home built for the
grace of summer, with tall French doors, 11-foot ceilings, and open
floor plans to invite cooling breezes.
Constructed in 1845 as a summer cottage in the Gothic Revival
style and now part of the Moreland Street Historic District, the
home has long since been hardened for a New England winter with oil
heat and steam radiators.
Entering the lot past the white picket fence, the view is of the
expansive porch that runs ...