This Gloucester home inspired an Edward Hopper painting. Now, you can buy it.
The bedroom has four bedrooms, including two master suites, and a $1,245,000 price tag.
The Gloucester home that inspired Edward Hopper’s “Haskell’s House” watercolor is on the market.
Legend has it Hopper and his wife used to call the home the “Wedding Cake House,” which may have had something to do with its elegantly tiered appearance.
Thirty granite stairs march up to the home, and the widow’s walk perched atop it gives the impression of a bride and groom cake topper. Though, as listing agent Mary Matthews said, the roost’s name does state otherwise.
Hopper, who is most famous for works like “Nighthawks” and “Automat,” captured the house on paper in 1924, and the painting is displayed in the National Gallery of Art. A replica hangs in the 316 Main St. home.
The work of art was named for Melvin Haskell, the state representative for whom the home was built in 1884, according to its listing.
The newly modernized estate now features an electronic gate, a hot tub, and a home theater. Boasting an oversized screen and floor-to-ceiling velvet curtains, the theater is one of the more extravagant features of the home. “To be there feels as if you are stepping back in time into a luxurious opera house from the 1920s,” Matthews said in an e-mail.
The widow’s walk — a lookout named for a dangerous time for the fishing industry when the wives of fishermen would look longingly out to sea hoping to see their husbands’ return — provides a 360-degree view of the town of Gloucester and its harbor.
The dining and living room floors are Brazilian cherry, and both staircases are hardwood. A stone wall guards the property from the back.
Two of the home’s four bedrooms are masters — one on each of the two floors. It also includes four and a half bathrooms and a detached two-car garage. The house sits on 0.25 of an acre.
Matthews listed the home for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage at $1,285,000 in May but dropped the price by $40,000 in August.
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