House of the week: A house in the Wissahickon neighborhood for $750,000
The house has four bedrooms and multiple bonus spaces.
It isn’t often that a mudroom is the main attraction that sells a house.
But Adnan Zulfiqar says that is what drew him and his wife, Hajira, in 2017 when they were looking for a house for themselves and their three young children. It was the last stop at the end of an exhausting day of searching.
“There was just a serene feeling,” he said. That the wood-paneled mudroom had been built by previous owners as a prayer room.
Careers took the family away from the home in 2022, but Hajira’s family is from Philadelphia, and Adnan said they always thought they might return, so they rented the house when they moved, instead of selling.
It was perhaps “wishful thinking,” Adnan said. “We loved the house, and we loved the neighborhood.”
But the family has now settled in Northern Virginia. Adnan commutes to his job as a law professor at Boston College, and Hajira is a dentist.
The four-bedroom, 3½-bath Victorian is 3,101 square feet.
It has original wood floors, crown and chair moldings, decorative fireplace mantels, and two usable fireplaces.
The kitchen has granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, and a large island, and there is also a half bathroom.
The primary bedroom is on the second floor with an en suite bathroom. There is a second bedroom with full bath, laundry, and a bonus space, which Adnan used as an office.
The third floor has the other two bedrooms, a full bathroom, and additional bonus space that can be used as a reading nook.
There is room to park four cars in the driveway and two more in the detached garage.
The home is close to the Wissahickon Regional Rail station, Kelly Drive, and I-76.
The house is listed by Kristin McFeely of Compass Realty for $750,000.
