$900000 Homes in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Vermont – New York Times

TAXES $3,980 a year

CONTACT Peter Blank, Liv Sothebys International Realty/Mile Hi Modern, 720-849-1956; milehimodern.com

WHAT A 1907 house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms

HOW MUCH $895,000

SIZE 4,550 square feet

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT $197

SETTING This house is in the leafy Chestnut Hill neighborhood, just a couple of blocks away from Wissahickon Valley Park, which has more than 50 miles of trails for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. Stores and restaurants line Germantown Avenue, about a half mile away. It is about 11 miles to Center City.

INDOORS This brick house was designed by the architect H. Louis Duhring in 1907, published by House Beautiful magazine in 1910, and is currently owned by Witold Rybczynski, a prominent writer on architecture and design, and his wife. The three-story house retains many early details, including pine floors, exposed beams and distinctive divided-light windows. Exterior steps lead to the front door, which opens into a large foyer with a staircase. To one side is the living room, which has a muscular stone fireplace and French doors leading out to a sunroom. To the other side is a dining room with another stone fireplace. At the back of the house is a simple kitchen with granite and wood counters, stainless steel appliances and a door leading to a stone patio, as well as a separate breakfast room.

The master bedroom is on the second floor, and has a fireplace and a dressing room. There is another bedroom, a study and a family room on this level, as well as two bathrooms off a hallway. On the third floor, there are two more bedrooms and a bathroom with a claw foot tub.

OUTDOOR SPACE The sloped 0.38-acre lot has gardens, trees, lawn and stone walls with ferns and rhododendrons. There is a large stone patio along the back of the house, and a shed. An unfinished walkout basement provides storage space and an area for laundry.

TAXES $8,824 a year

CONTACT Jeff Block, Berkshire Hathaway Fox & Roach Realtors/City Block Team, 215-833-7088; cityblockteam.com

WHAT A 1935 house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms

HOW MUCH $895,000

SIZE 1,622 square feet

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT $552

SETTING This house is on Lake Champlain and has views across the water to the Adirondacks in New York. The Basin Harbor resort and boat club is about two miles south. The small city of Vergennes has stores and restaurants about eight miles away; the larger city of Burlington is about 30 miles away.

INDOORS This one-story cottage was renovated in 2009. The front door opens into a small mudroom that leads to the living room, which has a stone wood-burning fireplace, V-groove paneling on the walls and ceiling, and painted floors. French doors and windows open to a long enclosed porch with ceiling fans and more glass doors and windows that open to a deck shaded by trees. Two doorways connect the living room to the kitchen, where there are quartz counters, a farmhouse-style sink, tiled walls, Sub-Zero and GE stainless steel appliances, and a dining area.

The master bedroom has a sloped ceiling, sisal carpet and feature walls clad in wood. It connects to a bathroom that has a double vanity with a Corian top, a walk-in shower tiled in stone and a door leading to an outdoor shower. One of the other two bedrooms has a loft with a timber railing and knotty-pine ceiling.

OUTDOOR SPACE The 3.7-acre lot has a detached one-car garage near the road, with stone steps leading down to the house by a stone retaining wall. At the waters edge, there is a two-story boat house with a screened sitting room on the top level and storage space below. Stairs lead down to a dock that provides direct access to the lake.

TAXES $10,779 a year

CONTACT Wade Weathers, LandVest, 802-238-6362; landvest.com

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