On the market: A Tudor home in a historic district in East Falls for $362,000
The homes on the block — all built around 1943 — have the atmosphere of an English country lane.
Moving to the Philadelphia area from New York City and upstate New York in 2019, Kelsey and Kevin Levine wanted a compromise between city and suburb.
“We thought Philadelphia was the perfect place to start a family,” says Kelsey, a partner in an executive search firm.
The couple didn’t want to move to her native Buffalo area, and Kevin, in-house lawyer for a health-care consulting company, was from Lower Merion and had family in the area.
They looked at houses in different neighborhoods but kept coming back to the two bedroom, one-bath Cotswold-style house in the Tudor East Falls Historic District. “I called it the charm house,” Kelsey says.
“It wasn’t the burbs, and it wasn’t the city,” Kevin says.
The Levines have a 2-year-old son, but with other children likely, they have decided to move to East Mount Airy.
The homes on the block — all built at roughly the same times as the Levines’ 1943 — have the atmosphere of an English country lane.
The bathroom was fully renovated in 2021 and the deck in 2020.
Kelsey turned the front patio area into a garden. The living and dining rooms are on the first floor, and the living room has new recessed lighting and built-in shelving.
The kitchen has also been renovated, with a Fisher-Paykel refrigerator/freezer, an induction oven, and a built-in microwave.
Each of the second-floor bedrooms has two closets, and the renovated bathroom has a tub and shower, custom vanity, marble floor, and skylight.
The lower level is at ground level and has space for an office or playroom plus storage and laundry.
The 1,216-square-foot house is listed by Betsy Hamilton of BHHS Fox & Roach for $362,000.