*A Recently Sold Home * Primary Structure Built: 1796 Sold For: $760,000 Original List Price: $777,000 Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 2 Full Living Space: 3,392 Sq. Ft.
Lot Size: .41 acres
Step back in time but enjoy the view ahead as you walk into this remarkably preserved historical home right in the heart of Cambridge. This 3,300-square-foot residence with adjacent, free-standing cottage, is located just blocks from Long Wharf Park and the Cambridge Yacht Club on the Choptank River.
Built in 1796, this home’s great bones are evident from the entry with its beautifully restored hardwood floors in the formal center hall foyer with architectural staircase and antique period lighting fixtures.
To the right of the entry, a formal living room with Federal-style fireplace receives abundant light from three, large casement windows. This spacious room opens directly into an informal sitting room/library with another wood-burning fireplace, and a gorgeous transom-like window detail visually connecting the two rooms. Like the rest of the main floor, the sitting room features rich woodworking and trim treatments, and offers a wall of large casement windows and attractive, period-centric built-ins.
A fine, evening supper was most likely served in the dining room to the left of the entry. This room also has a gorgeous fireplace and a stately, arch-shaped, glass-front built-in for convenient dish and stemware storage.
A sweet, in-eat kitchen with a large, sunny window and wood cabinetry affords all the basics for meal-prepping and awaits the new homeowners’ re-imaginings of a space that will blend Old World charm with contemporary style and efficiency. The main floor also features one of the home’s two full baths.
Upstairs, there is a plethora of lovely bedrooms to choose from. Each with those gorgeous hardwood floors, period sconces, and several with fireplaces. (There are six fireplaces in total in the residence.) One bedroom offers the charm of a sleeping porch with beadboard ceiling and two walls of windows. This level also has a full bath with vintage claw-foot tub.
Historically, this home was the one-time residence of Josiah Bayly, a prominent lawyer, and the appointed Maryland Attorney General of Maryland from 1831 to 1846. During his time as a lawyer, he was hired to handle the divorce of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, sister-in-law to the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
Outside, the residence is well landscaped with lush English boxwoods, a giant fig bush, and other mature trees including magnolias, gingko, pear, cedar, and some 100-year-old sycamores. The two-room cottage on the grounds was once the office of the Cambridge-based barrister.
Listing Agent & Buyers’ Agent: Mary Losty; Compass Real Estate; 1 Park Place, Annapolis; m. 215-920-3595; o. 410-429-7425; mary.losty@compass.com; compass.com
