Address: 834 Hillside Road, Lutherville-Timonium 21093
List price: $938,000
Year built: 1865
Real estate agent: Lynn Plack of Hubble Bisbee Christie’s International Real Estate
Last sold price/date: For $725,000 on March 22, 2019
Property size: 3,710-square-foot home has four bedrooms, three full bathrooms, one half-bathroom and an attached, two-car garage. The fenced 3.31-acre lot includes a swimming pool and a spring-fed pond.
Unique features: This white clapboard farmhouse dating from the Civil War has a hidden, modern side. The front part of the home was built around 1865 and retains many charming features from that era, including seven fireplaces with historic wooden mantels and exposed brick surrounds that once were the only source of heat.
But tucked away in the rear of the house is a two-story addition built in 2006 that has floor-to-ceiling windows. The expansive rear outdoor deck that takes advantage of the views was added even more recently, in 2023.
A lower-level changing room opens onto the oversized, heated saltwater pool. The lot is big enough to support five organic raised garden beds and a spring-fed pond surrounded by native plants. The property includes backyard access to the former Green Spring Branch railroad, which has become a walking and jogging path.
The historic part of the estate exudes period character: The living room features pine flooring and built-in bookshelves, the game room has French door windows and a concealed bar, and the dining room has an exposed-brick chimney and a ceiling beam with posts.
But the modern additions have their own personality.
The custom kitchen, for instance, was built to have a vaulted wood ceiling and a wide picture window. The kitchen design even includes an ingenious solution to a problem that has vexed modern homeowners for decades — accessing the upper kitchen cabinets that extend to the ceiling.
In this kitchen, they can be reached easily by climbing the attached sliding, library-style ladder.
