Take a look inside this distinctive home on Fairmount’s historic Centennial Boulevard, where original details meet modern upgrades.
Instead of ubiquitous brick, rowhouses on a block in Fairmount are faced with stucco modeled to resemble stone. They have tiled mansard roofs and terraced front gardens.
Many of the home’s mid-Victorian features had survived, including several brass light fixtures, red oak floors inlaid with walnut on the first floor, heart pine floors on the second and third floors, shutters on the parlor windows, stained glass foyer doors, plaster crown moldings and a walnut staircase.
Michael, who had been a contractor in the city for 30 years, knew how to proceed. He and Marta bought the Centennial house and renovated it while living in the other house, which they eventually sold.In the 1970s , they restored two vintage homes in Queen Village. Later, when they acquired a double lot in Queen Village, they built a residence designed to resemble a 19th-century carriage house. “It blended into the block,” Marta said.
He grew up in West Oak Lane. While attending Germantown High School and earning a business degree from Temple University, he worked for his uncle who was a mechanical contractor. His sister Ellen, an English as a Second Language teacher, introduced him to Marta, who was one of her students. In early August to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, they hosted a dinner party in their beautifully appointed Centennial home. Guests sat at the granite kitchen island or in the breakfast room or in the garden by a gurgling fountain.
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