26 Dorchester Avenue

The front gate trellised with climbing roses is an introduction to this inviting rare foursquare colonial home that features extensive updates making this home ready for you to move in and enjoy! Surrounded by an enchanting garden that invites you to meander and explore or linger awhile on the front porch swing or blue stone patio and enjoy the beauty that abounds with flowering plum and magnolia trees, hydrangeas, forsythia, hostas and more! Immediately feel the warmth as you step inside this 4 bedroom home to find abundant windows and hardwood floors. Southern and western light flood the expansive living room with wood burning fireplace that opens to cozy dining room and charming updated kitchen. The adjoining nook offers easy access to 1/3 acre along with a powder room and laundry. Continue to 2nd flr that boasts 4 bedrooms each with double exposure and hardwood floors. The updated hall bath completes this level. The lower level boasts a finished storage room and door out to yard offering an additional 12x16ft of flexible space ready for you to make it your own. Enjoy the charm of this 1928 home along with many improvements including new sheetrock on walls and ceilings, recessed lighting, central A/C, new roof, extensive landscaping, beautiful cedar lattice fence, bluestone patio, gravel terrace, regrading, new roof and gutters, driveway graded and graveled, and shed from Jamaica Cottage Shop! Tucked in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of this charming village that sits on the Hudson River, you will find Hillside Woods just a couple of blocks away where you can easily enjoy trails, Sugar Pond and the playgrounds and fields of the adjoining award wining Hillside Elementary School. The connecting meandering path offers access on a summer's day to the village pool and tennis courts on the western end of Hillside Woods Park. Continue to both the middle and high schools, and the quaint historic riverfront village where you will find dining, shopping, and a waterfront park offering spectacular sunsets over the Hudson River and Palisades along with the Hudson Line of the Metro North Railroad offering a quick 38 minute picturesque ride along the river to NYC!