What do you do when you want to preserve a classic home's interior while dividing it into two large residences?
This was the design dilemma facing Dorchester-based boutique developer WonderGroup, when it bought a classic 1898 Colonial Revival home at 23 Eliot St., on a corner lot in Jamaica Plain's Pondside neighborhood.
The ingenious solution was to preserve the traditional detailing and layout of the first two floors of the former single-family home and add a second unit in the rear with contemporary design.
"This is a stately home and I did not want to destroy its integrity," said WonderGroup owner Jacqueline Nunez. "It was exceptionally well built with incredible detailing and the last thing I wanted to do was to chop it up into two condos."
The just-completed project, with interiors designed by Boston-based Grassi Design Group, features two super high-end four-bedroom condos, each with more than 4,000 square feet of living space, and each listed for over $2 million.
"At around $500 a square foot, the prices are in line with high-end property in the neighborhood," said listing agent Janet Deegan of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. "And while these are condos, they're designed to be like side-by-side single families, each with an entirely different feel."
The 4,393-square-foot three-level Unit 1, on the market for $2.2 million, retains the grandeur of the first two floors of the original house. There are double parlors with restored pocket doors on either side of the foyer, and these rooms have paneled wainscoting, dentil molding and ornate mantels for original wood-burning fireplaces.
The kitchen is completely new and features Shaker-style walnut cabinets, along with a marble island and counters and Gaggenau and Miele appliances. Off the kitchen is a side entrance that steps down to a private patio and side yard.
The restored grand staircase leads up to three bedrooms, including a master suite with a gas fireplace and radiant-heated marble bathroom. Two of the unit's six original fireplaces were converted to gas.
The four-level Unit 2, available for $2.1 million, has its own frontage and driveway on Brewer Street as well as a private side yard.
You enter this 4,083- square-foot unit into a contemporary media room with a wet bar, framed by a set of lighted white oak stairs leading to three levels above, and there's also an elevator. The second level has a bedroom with its own private rear deck and a full bathroom.
The third floor has 18-foot vaulted walnut beam ceilings with a skylight and a private deck off the back. This stylish space has custom paneled accent walls, a gas fireplace and a staircase up to an attic level loft bedroom.
The adjacent kitchen is also strikingly contemporary with a waterfall-style marble island, matte painted and zebrawood cabinetry, Gaggenau and Miele appliances and track lighting. This unit also has a master suite with a stunning marble bathroom.
Both condos also have finished basements, hydronic multi-zone HVAC systems, built-in audio systems and smart wiring, as well as laundry rooms with Electrolux washers and dryers.
Nunez says that restoring the Colonial Revival home has been her firm's most expensive undertaking.
"It's a calculated risk," Nunez said. "But what better place to do it than in Pondside where there are so many grand summer homes, and on Eliot Street, one of the choicest residential streets in JP."
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