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One of Horace Trumbauer’s earliest creations, this handsome residence is element of the subdivision that made Wayne Wayne.
Are you a fan of noted Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer? If you are, you will no doubt be intrigued in proudly owning just one of his earliest works, this handsome Shingle Fashion household at 314 Louella Ave., Wayne, Pa. 19087 | Dazzling MLS visuals by way of BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors
Right before there was Wayne, there was “Louella.”
That was the identify of the enormous 293-acre estate and 80-room mansion banker J.H. Askin designed for himself in 1867 in close proximity to the Cleaver’s Landing station on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s not-still-storied Main Line. He named the estate for his two daughters, Louisa and Ella.
The estate also had its very own fuel works, its personal waterworks and a hall for community gatherings Askin named “Wayne Hall” right after the Revolutionary War hero, Gen. Anthony (“Mad Anthony”) Wayne. Banker Anthony J. Drexel and newspaper publisher George W. Childs have been so amazed by how properly-outfitted and roomy the Louella estate was that they bought it in 1880 and quickly commenced carving it up into residence loads. The improvement, which they dubbed “Wayne Estate,” finally became the nucleus of the community of Wayne.
By the time Horace Trumbauer was commissioned to design and style this home for builders Wendell and Smith in 1892, the railroad station experienced also been renamed for the local community. The progress of Wayne Estate was also continuing at a constant rate, with residences like this 1 lining its streets. And youthful Trumbauer, who had proven his architectural apply only three yrs earlier at age 21, was creating the informal but opulent fashion that would endear him to a lot of Gilded Age grandees, as you can see below.
This superbly updated Wayne Shingle Type household for sale is the 1st a person Trumbauer built for Wendell and Smith. It sits on the street named for the unique estate. And while it might not be as grand as “Louella,” it surely does not lack for elegance, house and creature comforts.
Front porch
You enter the property through a handsome, nearly-fully-enclosed front porch.
From the foyer, you can entry almost all of the key-ground rooms directly.
New music area
To your remaining lies the songs room, in the main flooring of the turreted part. Each it and the foyer have fireplaces that vent by a shared chimney.
Living place
Ahead of you on the left facet is the residing room…
Eating area
…and to the correct, the dining home. A big archway lets you and your friends move freely between the two.
Kitchen
To the correct of the lobby and eating home, an up-to-day kitchen area with reliable cabinetry in the late-19th-century model gives a good deal of house for meal preparing along with a breakfast nook. A person of two laundry rooms and a fifty percent bath lie off the breakfast nook, and sliding doorways hook up the breakfast nook to the yard deck.
Household place
Outside of the dwelling and dining rooms, a sunshine porch has been transformed into a comfy relatives area.
On the upper two flooring you’ll uncover five bedrooms, two with en-suite baths two corridor baths the next laundry area, equipped with two washers and dryers, and a 2nd new music place and storage area on the third flooring.
Master bedroom
One of the two en-suite bedrooms, of class, is the owner’s bed room. This excess-roomy bedroom connects to its lavatory via a walk-in closet and dressing region.
Grasp lavatory
The rest room, which occupies the turret on the second flooring, offers high-class appointments that consist of a heated marble tile floor, dual vanities, a pedestal tub with a Bluetooth speaker and a shower with electronic controls for its six spray heads.
Pool
And out again, beyond the deck, an in-floor pool will make a good space for summer months entertaining.
Also on the grounds are a basketball hoop and a carriage house with space higher than that bought completely rebuilt in 1989.
And it’s all super-handy to just one of the Key Line’s liveliest and cutest downtowns: Downtown Wayne, which lies 4 blocks north of this Wayne Shingle Style house for sale.
Put merely, all of this is just grand, historic and charming, and it has place plenty of to take care of you, your loved ones and your visitors easily. But if you really don’t believe it does, examine on.
THE Wonderful PRINT
BEDS: 5
BATHS: 5 comprehensive, 1 half
Sq. Toes: 4,871
SALE Cost: $1,850,000
OTHER Things: The sale price involves building drawings value $40,000 that would allow for you to noticeably expand this house and increase two much more parking areas in addition further residing area to the carriage dwelling. Strengthened beams in the porte-cochere also permit you to flip the bed room more than the front porch into a next learn suite by introducing a sitting down place and comprehensive bath. This house’s sale value has been diminished because it was relisted in late April, by $100,000 on June 16th.
314 Louella Ave., Wayne, Pa. 19087 [Robin Gordon | BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors]
Updated July 9th, 8:43 a.m., to take away an incorrect reference to a owners association price. The price appeared in the Zillow listing for this household in mistake. This dwelling has no HOA payment.
Updated July 9th, 8:30 p.m., to correct the spelling of J.H. Askin’s identify.
