On the market: A Cape Cod on two acres in Bucks County for $590,000
The Cape Cod, built in 1950, has housed three generations of the same family.
Stan Blaszczak has fond and vivid memories of growing up in the 1950s in the Cape Cod-style house his electrician father built in Bensalem.
“I remember helping to harvest vegetables and watching my mother can them and sell them to local markets,” he says. “After the war, he used the large walkout basement for a workshop to repair TVs and build kitchen cabinets to sell.”
But the time to go has finally come, partly because Blaszczak’s son, who is living there, will soon be leaving the area.
Blaszczak has remarried and moved to Ambler with Jean, his prom date at Father Judge High School with whom he reunited as he fought the isolation of COVID-19.
“He just reached out, and things took off from there,” says Jean, 77, a retired property manager. Stan, 79, is still working as controller of an electronics firm.
The three-bedroom, two-bath house is on two acres. Blaszczak says the zoning would permit some commercial use.
Square footage is 1,644, plus an additional 1,132 feet in the basement.
The first-floor living area has a great room with a wood-burning stone fireplace, bay front window, and covered veranda.
The dining room leads to the open, eat-in kitchen. The first floor has two large bedrooms and a covered porch running the length of the back of the house.
The second floor has the third bedroom with bath and a bonus room with hardwood floors.
There are heat thermostat controls in each room, in-wall air-conditioning units, ceiling fans, an attic fan, and a basement workroom.
An electric dog fence covers more than an acre of the lot, and there is a detached, two-car garage.
The house is listed by Moya Shea of Coldwell Banker Hearthside-Doylestown for $590,000.