What $800,000 Buys You in Rhode Island, Oklahoma and California

Beth McCandry

Centrally located at the foot of College Hill in a historic neighborhood, this house was built by a fur trader and hatter the year George Washington turned five. It has been owned by a couple of architects for 18 years. It’s three blocks from the Rhode Island School of Design campus, five blocks downhill from Brown University, and a five-minute walk across the river from the Amtrak station in Providence (the Acela ride to Boston takes about 35 minutes and up New). York City, about three hours). A ten minute walk takes you to the heart of the city center with its shops, restaurants, hotels and services.

Size: 2,537 square feet

Price per square meter: $ 305

Inside: The house is built around a central chimney with five working chimneys and has original doors, paneling and pine floors with planks up to two feet wide. (There is also central air conditioning.) The fireplace in the living room is surrounded by 18th-century tiles, each depicting a different biblical scene. The very large fireplace in the dining room was once used for cooking and has an old bread oven.

The current kitchen is a few decades old and has a traditional look with wide plank floors, Shaker-style wooden cabinets, multi-part sash windows, a patterned tile back wall, and a fireplace.

Each of the two bedrooms on the second floor opens to a bathroom, which also has a hallway access. The primary bathroom has a combo tub and shower and a closet that acts as a room divider. Two extended attic rooms with skylights are currently used as offices.

Outside space: The house is set back on its property, with parking for four cars. The Rhode Island State House and the surrounding greenery are within sight.

Taxes: $ 11,065

Contact: Chris Healy, Coldwell Banker Realty, 401-258-8534; Coldwellbanker.com

About five miles north of downtown Oklahoma City, this contemporary home is a rarity in its neighborhood of vintage bungalows from the 1930s and 1940s. It was custom made eight years ago. (The owner had previously built a similar house next door.) It’s half a mile southeast of Penn Square Mall and a mile and a half southwest of Classen Curve, another major mall. A small park with a playground and wading pool is one block east. The house has an exterior made of concrete blocks and corrugated iron with geometric roof overhangs that aid in cooling.

Size: 3,486 square feet

Price per square meter: $ 229

Inside: A glass door set into a wall of windows opens into a living room with white walls, concrete floors, recessed lighting, a stainless steel Big Ass ceiling fan, and a no-vent gas fireplace with a wide corrugated iron surround. Both guest rooms, which share a Jack and Jill bath, are removed from this room, and there is a closet that holds the equipment for smartphone-controlled audio and air systems.

A wine storage rack for over 100 bottles creates a porous partition between the living room and kitchen, a few steps lower. The kitchen has a white tile floor, custom-made cabinets with quartz countertops, and a central island with a sink and seating area. The Elektrolux and Sharp devices include an extra-wide fridge and freezer, conventional and convection wall-mounted ovens and a gas stove with burners that are sunk into the hob and leave a flush surface.

The kitchen opens into a dining area and both rooms look out onto the pool through a wall of sliding glass doors. The cable railing along the opposite wall in the dining room is an inheritance from a room that was originally open to the room but was closed to create a third bedroom. There is also a half bathroom on this level.

The primary bedroom suite occupies the entire second floor. It is reached via a floating steel staircase that was installed on site in the living room. Upstairs is a hallway with built-in bookshelves. The master bedroom has hardwood floors, a corrugated iron gas fireplace and direct access to a large, shaded balcony overlooking the pool. The en-suite bathroom has a free-standing bathtub that is filled from the ceiling and a glass-enclosed shower with two rain shower heads, two bench seats and an integrated shelf column. On the opposite wall are two floating washbasins with floor-to-ceiling mirrors. A walk-in closet is equipped with three storage walls, a washer and dryer in a cupboard and a wine refrigerator.

Outside space: A waterfall plunges from the rear balcony into the heated saltwater pool, which has an attached whirlpool. A table set into the pool serves as a swim-up bar. On the terrace by the pool there is an outdoor kitchen with a fireplace. Parking is in an attached two car garage with a glass door.

Taxes: $ 5,755 (2020 based on a $ 48,328 tax bill)

Contact: Jenna Harper, Sage Sotheby’s International Realty, 405-465-6566; sothebysrealty.com

This 10th floor unit is located in the postmodern Daniel Burnham Court, which is a central glass building with office and retail space between two high-rise apartment buildings. The apartment is on Van Ness Avenue, a major north-south street, and a mile or less from Japantown (to the west), Nob Hill (to the east), Hayes Valley (to the south), and the Civic Center (to the west) South-east). The building includes a gym, sauna, jacuzzi, swimming pool and round-the-clock security.

Size: 772 square meters

Price per square meter: $ 983

Inside: An entrance hall with parquet flooring leads you past the kitchen door into a living and dining room with a white carpet and two window walls with a view of the city. A third wall includes a bar cabinet and a passageway to the compact kitchen with white wooden cabinets, a four-burner electric stove, a standard-size refrigerator with freezer compartment, a dishwasher, a microwave and a stainless steel sink with two bowls.

Across the hall is a bathroom with a washbasin, a tub-shower combination and a chest of drawers. It connects to a room with a vanity that merges into the bedroom. Both sinks are lit by a Hollywood-style strip of lightbulbs. The bedroom has a small window niche and a closet with three mirror sliding doors.

Outside space: On the third floor there is a communal terrace with city views as well as the fitness room and the pool. The device has a documented parking space in an underground car park.

Taxes: $ 9,488 estimated plus $ 802 monthly homeowner fee

Contact: Lyman Chao, Re / Max Capital, 415-840-5699; remax.com

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