Home of the Week

Kingston home marries best of the past with today’s needs

House, which dates to 1890, features a new kitchen, updated lighting, 2.5 bathrooms, and 3 bedrooms with room for more.

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The Colonial at 264 Main St. in Kingston sits on 0.8 of an acre. - Photos by Craig Cole Enterprises

By John R. Ellement

3 minutes to read

264 Main St., Kingston

$799,900

Style Colonial

Year built 1890

Square feet 2,721

Bedrooms 3

Baths 2 full, 1 half

Sewer/Water Private (5-bedroom septic)/public

Taxes $9,198 (2024)

“Stately” is a valid adjective to describe this 134-year-old Colonial with white siding, black shutters, corbels, lintels, and a farmer’s porch.

A red-brick sidewalk sweeps past a post light to the porch steps of our Home of the Week. The front door, painted a blue reminiscent of Colonial Williamsburg, features two arched windows. Inside, one finds a foyer with marble flooring and the living room to the right, stairs to the second floor to the left, and the bulk of the first floor straight ahead.

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The living room (254 square feet) shows both its 19th-century roots (crown molding, tall baseboards, and a windowed rectangular bump-out) and the updates the home underwent from 2010 to 2016 (oak flooring, new energy-efficient windows, and a stacked drum shade flush-mounted light). The home’s walled-off rooms offer more privacy and soundproofing than the open layouts of abodes built today. (Remember when we all wanted more privacy during the pandemic?)

French pocket doors reveal the dining room (220 square feet), where a drum shade light fixture hangs above a table for eight. Four-pane double-hung windows ensure that the space is bright, and a built-in china cabinet provides a place to hide the ugly soup tureen your aunt gave you until she comes to visit.

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For less formal meals, dine in the kitchen’s 154-square-foot breakfast nook. You can wash up first in the half bath, which offers a single vanity with a quartz top and black-and-white ceramic tile flooring. This hallway also has the door to the two-bay garage, which has unfinished space above it awaiting the next buyer’s ideas.

No need to touch a thing in the kitchen (297 square feet), which has been overhauled. It’s a very bright space with white cabinets, granite counters, two windows over the sink, recessed lighting, an island with seating for three below three glass-globe pendant lights, and a slider to the backyard. The appliances (the stove is gas) are stainless steel, and the flooring is oak.

The final space on this floor is an office/family room just off the kitchen that has myriad windows, built-in bookcases, and French doors to the yard.

The home’s second floor holds all three bedrooms and a 58-square-foot exercise space that could be used as a second office.

The primary suite is shaped like an L and clocks in at 359 square feet, allowing plenty of room for a sitting area. The closet is a walk-in with custom shelving, and the en-suite bath features a double vanity with a granite top and ceramic tile on the floor and in the standalone shower.

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The other bedrooms are roughly 130 square feet apiece. They share a full bath with a shower/tub combination behind a curtain, a double vanity with a granite top, and black-and-white ceramic tile flooring.

All of the bedrooms boast refinished pine flooring that’s original to the home.

The washer and dryer are in a laundry closet.

The unfinished attic offers a total of 1,121 square feet for storage with varying ceiling heights.

The house, which sports new gutters, sits on a 0.8-acre landscaped lot with a fire pit.

Susan W. Sullivan of Jack Conway in Hingham has the listing.

As of press time, an offer had been accepted on the home.

See more photos of the home:

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The flooring in the foyer is marble.

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The living room features a windowed bump-out.

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French pocket doors open to the dining room.

The dining room has a built-in china cabinet.

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The kitchen is a bright space with white cabinets, granite counters, recessed lighting, and an island with seating for three.

The office/family room features built-ins and is right off the kitchen.

The primary suite has enough room for a seating area.

The primary suite bath has a standalone shower and a double vanity with a granite top.

The laundry closet is on the second floor.

The attic is unfinished.

There’s an unfinished space above the two-bay garage.

The yard comes with a fire pit.

Follow John R. Ellement on X @JREbosglobe. Send listings to [email protected]. Please note: We do not feature unfurnished homes unless they are new-builds or gut renovations and will not respond to submissions we won’t pursue.

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