One of Montreal’s finest examples of a New York-style greystone townhouse has been fully renovated to its former grandeur and is being listed for sale at $2,699,000 by Profusion Realty of Westmount.
Located on the Westmount flats at 4281 de Maisonneuve West, (near the corner of Greene Ave.), the semidetached Edwardian home was built in 1910 by a wealthy Montreal merchant, JeanBatiste Vanier.
The five-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom residence features nearly 6,000 sq. ft of living space, a 30-foot-long kitchen with all the modern appliances, three gas fireplaces wrapped in Bianco Carrera marble and a magnificent, curved wrought-iron staircase from the ground floor to secondfloor private quarters.
This home underwent a topto-bottom renovation in 2008 that modernized the centuryold building and brought it into the 21st century, while retaining all its fabulous character and abiding by the strict Westmount heritage preservation codes.
The entranceway and living rooms offer gas fireplaces and exquisite hardwood floors with the original mouldings. Three little rooms were removed to make room for the huge eat-in kitchen, which boasts custom-built floor-to-ceiling wood cabinetry; a 9×4-foot central island, white marble countertops and herring-bone archetype hardwood flooring.
The luxurious second-floor master bedroom suite offers a walk-in closet and ensuite bathroom with separate marble top vanities, a soaker tub and an eight-foot-long glass shower with double jets and rain shower heads. The radiant heated flooring keeps the bathroom comfy and inviting.
The two other bedrooms on this floor come with bay windows and a ton of space for all the necessary furnishings.
Polished and heated concrete flooring is found in the finished basement, along with exposed fieldstone walls and a glass-wall wine cellar.
There are two bedrooms here, with one being used as an exercise room. It also boasts an open sitting area that can easily be converted into a home theatre.
“We dug out the basement floor and installed concrete slabs with radiant heating pipes for floor heating,” explained owner and designer, Tania Schmitt. “All the fieldstone walls were repointed. It was pretty well stone and dirt before we got to work on it.”
The exterior shell of the home has been immaculately restored and beams opulence with its finely carved greystone facade, yellow brick side and back walls and an exquisite topping of copper flashing on its roof and eaves. This residence wasn’t built just as a home, but as an illustration, or showcase of one man’s wealth and rank among the upper crust of early 20th-century Montreal society.
“The most amazing thing about this home is that you get a fully restored historical home with all of today’s bells and whistles. A huge gourmet kitchen with adjacent family room, gorgeous bathrooms, central air etc. etc. It has 6,000 square feet of finished living space. Buyers don’t have to compromise on anything,” explained Christina Miller, the Profusion Realty broker who is handling the property.