Home of the Week: Condo near downtown Salem is listed for $289,900
This century-old three-story home has been converted into three units. Search the latest home listings at realestate.boston.com.
33 Cabot St., Unit 1
$289,900
Style: Condo
Year built: 1914
Square feet: 980
Bedrooms: 2
Baths: 1 full
Sewer/water: Public
Taxes: $2,893 (2018)
Fee: $250 a month
It’s called the “Witch City’’ and when October rolls around, Salem becomes a major tourist destination for the entire month, making this condo a short walk to downtown an excellent way to avoid the worst of the Halloween crowds.
This charming home, which is more than 100 years old, has been converted into three residences. From the shared entryway, the first space of the first-floor unit is the living room, which is airy thanks to 8-foot ceilings and a ring of three long windows in a bay at the front of the house. There’s also a rectangular window with some original stained glass. There’s room for two couches along with a large television.
The flooring in the living, dining, and bedrooms is the original hardwood.
The living room flows into the dining room, which includes a classic from the original construction: a built-in china cabinet with clear-glass doors. Natural light flows from a pair of long windows complemented by a flush-to-the ceiling domed light.
The kitchen area is divided like a three-room suite. A traditional kitchen connects to a butler’s pantry and an office. The main kitchen area (at 234 square feet, the largest space in the condo) has a stainless-steel gas stove, room for a table for six in the center, and a large floor-to-ceiling cabinet flanked by windows. There is white Nantucket wainscot and two smaller cabinets.
Food prep can be done in the butler’s pantry, where the walls are lined with light-colored wood cabinets. The counters are laminate and provide the perfect perch for appliances like a microwave. The cabinets frame the sink, positioned underneath a double-hung window at the end of this nearly 9-foot-long space.
The third prong is an office, also nearly 9 feet deep, that was fashioned out of a utility room and still retains the sink drains should anyone want to reconfigure it into a laundry area.
The first of two bedrooms runs off the kitchen. It’s a five-sided area that consumes the rear corner of the unit, ensuring natural light through two windows. It’s 138 square feet and has a nice closet and sconces.
The main level also includes a full bath dominated by a free-standing claw-foot tub that may be original to the home. A shower faucet has been added. There is a white porcelain pedestal sink, and the flooring is laminate.
The second bedroom, found across from the living and dining rooms, is 127 square feet and has two windows, sconces, and a deep closet.
All three residences share the basement, but they have separate laundry facilities and heating and hot water equipment. The ground-floor unit includes a bay in the four-door detached garage along with a tandem parking spot.
Outside the back door, a porch has space for a table and chairs that overlooks a small patch of lawn landscaped with flowers, plants, and white geese statues.
The listing agent, Zoe Karademos of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Salem, will hold an open house on Sunday, Nov. 4, from 12 to 1:30 p.m.
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