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78 Shaker Rd
Harvard, MA 01451
Residential · Active · MLS #73453731
Listing Courtesy of Petraglia Real Estate Services | John Petraglia
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About this home
Owner will consider offers. Eat, Pray, Live, Create. Be inspired in this spacious home that has fledged artists, writers, thinkers and scholars for more than a century. Built by Shakers with a thoughtful simple aesthetic that connected this home to a whole community. Whether you need space, privacy, light, nature or quietude, this home and location have it all. Pure Shaker detail. The floorplan includes a large living room with a fireplace, a very large dining room, two full and one-half bath, multiple living levels allowing for any use imaginable. Interior features include natural woodwork, warm wood floors, large windows, a sunporch with banked windows, Shaker peg rails, built-in cupboards in nearly every room and classic Shaker stair railings. Set on over two acres offering garden areas abutting New England Forest. Come discover what Harvard and this wonderful Shaker home can offer you. Potential for interior ADU or nonprofit adaptive reuse.
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Interior
- Rooms
- 21
- Heating
- Steam, Oil
- Cooling
- None
- Flooring
- Wood, Pine, Flooring - Wood
- Fireplaces
- 1
Building
- Style
- Single Family Residence
- Year built
- 1840
- Garage
- 3
- Parking
- 5
- Foundation
- Stone, Granite, Irregular
- Roof
- Slate
Land & utilities
- Lot size
- 2.3 acres
- Water
- Private
- Sewer
- Private Sewer
- Zoning
- RES
Financial
- Annual taxes
- $23,876
- Assessment year
- 2025
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