726 Prospect Ave, Hartford, CT 06105

This iconic home in Hartford's historic West End is a perfect blend of period features and comfortable, modern lifestyle. With 6 bedrooms (currently 2 home offices and 4 bedrooms and a huge Mark-Twain-House-style billiard room (awesome family room, there is space for everyone's needs. You can revel in the period beauty and craftsmanship of yesterday in every room while enjoying modern conveniences for everyday family life and entertaining. Offered for only the third time in 120 years, this home is one of the area's most unique homes, offering fabulous architectural details both inside and out. Entering the home from the deep front porch, with its award-winning restoration, one encounters mahogany columns and panels denoting the music room and parlor/LR with beautiful FP mantel and hand silkscreened period wall coverings. Original lighting fixtures light your way through the pocket door, flanked by a spectacular dining room fully encircled by raised quarter-sawn English oak panels, china closets, FP, hand painted frieze and stained glass. Pass through the 2 pantries to the eat-in kitchen with tin ceiling, butcher block counters, copper backsplashes and copper hood over Viking range. The staircase turns to a 4-panel stained glass landing to 4 bedrooms (master w/FP and a full bath with original marble sink and clawfoot tub. The 3rd floor FR has 2 leaded Palladian windows, built-in seating (with storage for toys and the "turret" room, perfect for board games.