35 CHARLES ST - SOLD
The Essentials
A rather glorious three-bedroom semi-detached Inner Harbour home with a modern exterior and a 150-year-old heart.
The Bigger Picture
I live on Charles St myself, so if this one interests you, you’ll have to factor that in; I would just offer in my defence that nowhere is perfect.
I tell you this because while I suppose I could live most places in the city, I’ve been here for nearly 20 years. I feel at home here and I’m pretty sure you will too. I walk the K & P Trail most days, make it into the wild meadows along the shore of the Cataraqui River. There are coyotes down there, and swans, a pair of osprey that rebuild a nest every spring. At the same time, I’m steps from The Elm Cafe, and five minutes from Daughters Grocery. McBurney Park is a ten-minute stroll up the hill. Novel idea is the same distance, only it’s a flatter walk.
I’ve situated you, I hope. Shown how everything you want is just a choice of left or right when you walk out the door. My son walks to the university every morning in under thirty minutes.
The house is a semi-detached three-bedroom one-and-two-half bath home and dates to 1870. You wouldn’t guess that from the big modern window at the front, or the metal roof, the new midnight blue paint job, it has a squarish, geometric appeal, like something put up a century later, but inside is a home bursting with character.
The pine floors have that polished golden glow that only the passage of time will produce, and try how I might, I can’t come close to reaching the main floor ceilings. You see me trying that from the street and I look, I bet, like a an old man reaching for the string on a balloon
The kitchen was redone in 2018 and its white quartz counters, I realize, match this morning’s fresh snow out in the sweet garden (with its stone patio and new shed and big tree) just beyond the sliding doors and the window seat. Turn on the right music and you’re on a movie set.
The two-piece bathroom on this floor was added in 2022 and is at least as smart and charming as your favourite human, as are the three good bedrooms, and the upstairs laundry.
I’ll leave you to the pictures, with the humble suggestion that you linger for a moment on the curved wall in the front hall. It’s echoed on the second floor too, as if plaster coats an ancient column around which the house slowly rotates. It’s a disorientingly lovely touch.
The Virtual Tour
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The Gallery
The Floor Plans
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