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💓 plants? This mid-century modern beauty has a bedroom greenhouse.

The four-bedroom single-family property also comes with a gallery/studio.

This mid-century modern home features an impressive 548-square-foot living room with a fireplace. Matthew McNamara/Media by Domino

By John R. Ellement, The Boston Globe

3 minutes to read

19 Orlando Ave., Arlington

$1,425,000

Style Mid-century modern

Year built 1941

Square feet 5,169

Bedrooms 4

Baths 3 full, 1 half

Sewer/Water Public

Taxes $12,575 (2024)

Attention green thumbs and artists.

Both pursuits are possible in this mid-century modern beauty on a curved street so private even Google ignores it. (Check it out! The platform’s people icon won’t go there.)

Park your car in the single-vehicle garage or take the slate slab walkway to the front porch. The foyer is a closed space — to keep the cold out in the winter and the cold in during the summer — with a closet.

A doorway on the left reveals a 192-square-foot den with a wood-burning fireplace and natural pine paneling that extends to the ceiling. The flooring here and throughout much of the home is oak tile and laminate.

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Step back into the foyer, and the dining area is straight ahead. The 385-square-foot space offers a mix of oak and slate flooring, a Capiz shell-scalloped chandelier, and the stairs to the upper level.

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The home comes with a single-car garage. – Matthew McNamara/Media by Domino

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The entrance offers storage. – Matthew McNamara/Media by Domino

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This room has its own fireplace. – Matthew McNamara/Media by Domino

Head to the left and into the 105-square-foot kitchen, which is a testament to the mid-century modern design. It features the original sleek white metal cabinets; a red, gray, black, and white mosaic tile backsplash; gray tile flooring; a red countertop trimmed in steel; easy-clean stainless steel countertops; and a door to the back deck. Sliding rain shower-glass doors create a pass-through to the dining area with open wood cabinetry overhead. The appliances — all electric — are stainless steel. The stove and cooktop are original to the home.

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Back in the dining area, three steps lead down to one of the premier spaces in this 5,169-square-foot home, one that combines the formal dining area and living room into a 548-square-foot open layout.

“Brilliant” is the perfect adjective for a room that boasts a ceiling clad in pine, as well as exposed beams, plate-glass windows with a distant view of the Boston skyline, and a wood-burning fireplace set in a brick surround painted white. The flooring switches to large-format flagstones in front of the fireplace, and track lighting would put a spotlight on any art showcased above it.

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The kitchen features sleek-front white cabinetry. – Matthew McNamara/Media by Domino

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The flooring throughout much of the home is oak tile and laminate. – Matthew McNamara/Media by Domino

The home boasts a wall of windows. – Matthew McNamara/Media by Domino

A hallway connects to the left side of the home, where two bedrooms, a full bath, and a half bath are located. The bedrooms range from 121 to 165 square feet. The larger of the two is a suite with a half bath and a walk-in closet.

The bedrooms share a full bath with a shower/tub combination behind a curtain, a porcelain sink, ceramic tile flooring, and sconces.

That wide stairway in the dining area? It ends in a 544-square-foot art gallery/studio. Here, three colors — white, pale blue, and black — and beam-mounted lights state clearly that this space is for art, not any banal domestic purpose. Skylights line the ceiling, the flooring is concrete, and stairs to nowhere offer a perch for displaying one’s work.

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“This room was built by previous owners and the wife was a sculptor,” said the listing agent, Steve McKenna & The Home Advantage Team of Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty in Arlington. “There is a steel I beam in the ceiling with a hoist that enabled her to bring large slabs of granite in, create her artwork, and send it back out via the French doors and hoist.”

The primary suite also is on this level, between storage space and a closet. A French door opens to the 165-square-foot space, which is bathed in natural light from a bow window bump-out and a rectangular window. There are two closets behind bifold doors.

The en-suite bath offers a white porcelain pedestal sink, ceramic tile flooring, a bidet, and a shower with a clear-glass door and a tile surround.

The home’s lowest level holds the final bedroom, a substantial one at 315 square feet and a plant-lovers dream: French doors open to a 98-square-foot greenhouse. Worried about dragging in dirt and debris? The bedroom floor is ceramic tile for easy cleanup.

The greenhouse is attached to a downstairs bedroom. – Matthew McNamara/Media by Domino

The family room (527 square feet), a utility closet (218 square feet), and a laundry room also are on this level.

The mid-century modern property sits on a quarter-acre-plus lot and comes with air-conditioning and gas forced-hot air heat.

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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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