Home of the Week: For $749,900, a Medford penthouse with two decks and a sauna
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1 Saint Clare Road, Unit 18, Medford
$749,900
Style Condo
Year built 1951; converted 2015
Square feet 1,583
Bedrooms 2
Baths 2 full
Water/Sewer Public
Fee $312 a month
Taxes $6,049 (2021)
Given its provenance as a Catholic elementary school, one would expect the condos in the Residences at One Saint Clare to mimic classrooms with very horizontal living spaces. But that’s not what the designers envisioned when the building was converted into 18 units five years ago. Here, life is lived vertically.
Unit 18 starts on the second floor and ascends to the rooftop, where it is crowned with a 340-square-foot “media room’’ flanked by private decks, each about 140 square feet. One deck is accessed via slider, the other by a door. One offers views of Boston, the other Middlesex Fells Reservation in the distance. Both are large enough for two chairs, a sofa, and a table.
The unit’s first level holds a bedroom suite, a laundry closet with stacked appliances, a hall closet, and a sitting area. The bedroom, which at 160 square feet is slightly smaller than the home’s primary suite, has a pair of windows, a ceiling fan with a light, a walk-in closet, hardwood flooring, and a grass-cloth wall. The en-suite bath offers a white vanity with smoked-glass doors and a porcelain bowl; a shower behind glass doors with a subway tile backsplash; and marble tile flooring.
Wood stairs bisect the second level into high-traffic and private spaces. A short hallway on the left leads to a kitchen/dining area in which the appliances are stainless steel and light comes from two pairs of tall windows, a pair of global-like pendant lights, recessed lighting, and a trio of cone-caged pendant lights descending from driftwood. The space now comfortably accommodates seating for entertaining — a dining table for four, an island with two wide stools, and a couch — and a side table bar.
The counters are quartz. The flooring throughout is hardwood.
Back down the hall to the right of the stairwell are two doors: One opens to the home’s second full bath, the other to the primary bedroom suite. The bath offers a shower/tub combination, a single vanity, and marble flooring and countertops. Like its smaller cousin, the bedroom has a feature wall clad in grass cloth, a walk-in closet, a pair of windows, and hardwood flooring.
The aforementioned media room takes up the third level and offers a feature the new owner can keep or toss: a standalone sauna. There’s also a gas fireplace.
The unit comes with two deeded parking spaces and a storage closet.
Alex Genovese of Flow Realty in Somerville is the owner and the listing agent. As of press time, an offer had been accepted on the home.
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