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$2.2 Million Homes in Georgia, Massachusetts and New York

Rome, Ga. | $2.2 Million

A late 19th-century Carpenter Gothic house with four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, a one-bedroom, one-bathroom carriage house and a saltwater swimming pool, on 5.65 acres

In the late 1990s, the owner, a commercial builder, renovated what was then a dilapidated home surrounded by virgin woods outside his hometown, Rome, 90 minutes northwest of Atlanta. The gated property backs onto the 311-acre Marshall Forest Preserve and is about a mile southwest of Rome, a city of about 36,000 built on seven hills (hence its name).

Size: 5,549 square feet

Price per square foot: $396

Indoors: Passing under a swooping gable, you enter a parlor with gleaming restored or reconstructed woodwork, one of the home’s six wood-burning fireplaces and a period brass-and-crystal chandelier. This was where business was conducted with tradesmen. More intimate guests were ushered into a living room to the left, which has a wall of built-in shelves surrounded by Gothic molding flanking a fireplace.

The formal dining room, which is also off the parlor, includes a fireplace and dentil crown molding and space to seat 16. The eat-in kitchen has mahogany-colored traditional cabinets with granite countertops, travertine floors and high-end appliances. The adjacent family room has a coffered ceiling, wall paneling and bookshelves with a distressed off-white-painted finish. It connects to a wood-paneled breakfast room with a floral glass pendant lamp hanging from a chain and views of the swimming pool and forest. A sunroom that extends across the back of the home has this view as well.

A hallway with damask-patterned wallpaper and a carved Victorian coat rack leads to the main-floor master suite; it includes a coffered ceiling and a metal spiral staircase up to a glass-walled yoga room. (That space is also accessible from a paneled shelf in the upstairs hallway that was once a secret passageway where precious objects were hidden.) The master bathroom has a polished dark-marble floor and shower and a claw-foot slipper tub.

Three additional bedrooms are upstairs. Two have fireplaces. The two second-floor bathrooms include one with vintage black-and-white harlequin-patterned floor tiles and a checkerboard wall trim.

Outdoor space: The house and swimming pool, which has an adjacent hot tub, are surrounded by lawns, paths and groomed garden beds. The three bays in the detached five-car carriage house are air-conditioned and could be used as a work space. The upstairs apartment has a bedroom, full bathroom, small den area and kitchenette. A second, two-car garage is underneath the main house, next to the original fruit cellar.

Taxes: $6,575 (2018, based on a tax assessment of $204,000)

Contact: Pam Elledge, Atlanta Fine Homes, Sotheby’s International Realty, 404-626-0614; atlantafinehomes.com

Newton, Mass. | $2.15 Million

A 1949 modernist house with five bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, on 0.54 acres

Samuel Glaser, who partnered with Walter Gropius and the Architects Collaborative on the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston (and who was the father of the actor Paul Michael Glaser, best known for playing a detective on the 1970s television series “Starsky & Hutch”), designed this suburban house for a family called Leventhal that owned a construction company. The house is in Oak Hill, one of 13 villages that make up the city of Newton, blocks from a variety of parks and schools and about seven miles southwest of Back Bay, in Boston.

Size: 3,842 square feet

Price per square foot: $560

Indoors: The second owner, an interior designer, renovated and expanded the house about 10 years ago, with improvements that included a larger kitchen, new windows, updated bathrooms and a new roof. The third, and current, owners upgraded the mechanical systems, lighting and hardscaping and installed a Tesla charger. Original features include custom cabinetry, light fixtures and interior doors with Lucite-and-chrome knobs.

The main entrance takes you into a foyer that leads, on the right, to a 500-square-foot living and dining room with a polished concrete floor, a stone fireplace and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking an extensive rear patio and lawn. A swinging door leads to a breakfast room with an L-shaped walnut banquette and an open kitchen. Lined on two sides with custom walnut cabinetry, the kitchen has Viking, Sub-Zero and Miele appliances and includes a pantry behind sliding walnut doors.

To the left of the main foyer is a half bathroom with Ann Sacks tile and a floating red birch vanity, and an office. There is also a laundry alcove off the breakfast area and a large mudroom next to the kitchen with an additional door opening to the patio.

The master bedroom sits directly above the living room and has its own fireplace in the stone chimney stack. The master bathroom was updated in 2013 with radiant-heated stone floors and a walk-in shower. The three additional bedrooms on this level include one at the front with an en suite bathroom and two at the rear that share a hallway bathroom. Both guest bathrooms have heated limestone floors.

The daylighted lower level includes a large family room with black-stained heated concrete floors, a fireplace and a wet bar. There is also a bedroom and a full bathroom.

Outdoor space: The bluestone patio was enlarged during the renovation, with a covered portion raised and surrounded by curtains. The addition and part of the original building were clad in cedar siding. Birch trees were added to the property for enhanced privacy. Parking is in a detached two-car garage.

Taxes: $17,351

Contact: Bill Janovitz or John Tse, Compass, 781-856-0992; modernmass.com

Upper Nyack, N.Y. | $2.195 Million

A 1986 house with four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and a swimming pool, on 1.93 acres

This house is in a village of about 1,800 people that was originally known as Goosetown and has a number of large estates. It is about 25 miles north of Manhattan and a mile and a half from the center of Nyack proper, with its many businesses. The 61-acre Nyack Beach State Park, on the Hudson River, which is part of the Palisades Interstate Park system, is less than a mile up the road.

Size: 5,724 square feet

Price per square foot: $383

Indoors: Inspired by a Georgian Revival house in Newport, R.I., the building is guided by classical symmetry. The marble-floored foyer has an imperial staircase that curves up on two sides behind a pair of free-standing Doric columns. French doors to the left of the entrance open to a carpeted study with navy-blue walls and white built-in bookshelves. French doors on the right lead to a formal dining room with inlaid-wood floor borders and dentil crown molding.

Behind the study is a living room with oak floors, a 14-foot-high tray ceiling painted with a classical scene, chair-rail and picture moldings, a wood-burning fireplace and French doors on three sides, including an arched pair leading to a rear brick patio.

Behind the dining room is an eat-in kitchen with bleached-oak cabinets and Corian countertops, new stainless-steel appliances, a decorative wood-trimmed ceiling, a separate pantry and French doors opening to the back. The kitchen flows into a family room with a fireplace and yet another opportunity to step outside.

The second floor includes a master suite with access to a porch that offers seasonal Hudson views (the porch can also be reached through an arched door on the landing). The master bathroom is faced in tumbled marble tile and has a claw-foot tub and walk-in shower.

An additional three large bedrooms share a bathroom with double sinks and a combined tub and shower. A staircase in one of the guest rooms leads to a large carpeted space on the third floor lined with dormer windows. This level also has a full bathroom.

The unfinished walkout basement has poured-concrete floors and 12-foot ceilings.

Outdoor space: The home is called Walnut Hill after the many walnut trees on the property. The lot is terraced and includes brickwork around the saltwater swimming pool and adjacent hot tub. Parking is in an attached two-car garage.

Taxes: $56,668 (2018)

Contact: Richard Ellis, Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty, 914-393-0438; ellissothebysrealty.com

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