Upper Michigan Village Home with Traditional Georgian-Style Architecture! This home is located in the Village of L'Anse, which is located on the southern end of Lake Superior's Keweenaw Bay. This area is rich in history, and was settled first by Native Americans, and later by French explorers, trappers, loggers, and missionaries. It is a great area, with a cultural mingling of people of many nationalities who were drawn to the area's mining, lumbering, and agricultural opportunities. Today tourism is key. A deep water Marina and Lake Superior boating, fishing, and swimming is just down the street. Several waterfalls, campsites, X-Country ski trail, hunting tracts, and many tourist attractions that offer sightseeing bring people into the area in every season. If you are looking for the Upper Peninsula lifestyle, this captivating house bespeaks formality and permanence! The Georgian style, with its long history in America, is among our country's most consistently popular styles. It is admired for its rectangular, symmetrical design, classic proportions, and simple formality. Research about this home reveals that is was built in 1924 by a Finnish Craftsman, with all local help, for a wealthy Lumber Man and his Family. The fine wood interior features in the home were hand selected from the Owner's timberlands! This home has a centrally located front door, evenly spaced double-hung windows and a simple hip roof. The five double-hung rectangular evenly spaced windows across the house's facade, typify the Georgian style. Georgian style usually meant brick - and this beautiful home has just that, a low-maintenance masonry exterior! The Front Entrance - A portico - is an open porch with a roof structure supported by columns. The interior of Georgians are traditionally arranged according to strict symmetry and proportion. These balanced geometries are seen in this home. The front door opens into a foyer, which then leads to the central hall with a staircase around which the interior rooms are positioned. A door at the back of the hall, to the right of the staircase, leads to an entrance to the back yard. A formally defined Living or Great Room is situated off the central hall and is just one of many highlights of this regal home. The room has Double French Doors, hand crafted decorative moldings with rich stains that preserve and showcase the natural beauty of the grain, refinished hardwood flooring, and a warm and inviting (electric) fireplace with a masonry surround and mantlepiece. It will be the site of many gatherings! On the opposite side of the Grand Hall are another set of Double French Doors that lead to a formal Dining Area and Kitchen, which features more locally selected birch veneer cabinetry. A 9x14 Room off the Dining Area has an original masonry wall and "eye brow" window. Currently used as an Den-Study, it could possibly be used as a First Floor Sleeping Area, Studio, or a Professional Business Office. This room takes you to the large First Floor 3/4-Bath, with Laundry Center. The staircase inside the spacious entrance hall is where you can clearly see the joinery and the meticulous detailing in the paneling, stairways and trim. It leads up to a 7x10 upstairs Landing, four generously proportioned Bedrooms with views of Lake Superior and surrounding neighborhood, and a Full Bath. This home has been tastefully decorated with a classic Arts and Crafts palette in subtle, muted natural colors and is in ready to move in condition. Outdoors you will find a tidy, manageable yard with a two-entrance driveway, and a Detached 16x24 Garage. (1995 Furnace replaced, 1995 Water Heater replaced, 2003 Roof, Flashing and Metal Fascia replaced, 2013 Sierra Gutters and Downspouts installed, 2014 City Sewer and Water Lines replaced)
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