$1.45M Short Hills Home: Property of the Week

Location: 50 Crescent Place, Short Hills, NJ 

Price: $1,450,000

Bedrooms: 4 

Baths: 2 Full, 1 Half

Description: This stately center hall colonial is located in the prestigious Crescent area of Old Short Hills, just one block north of the Short Hills train station and close to top-rated Millburn High School. Children attend Glenwood Elementary School and enjoy close proximity to the shops on Chatham Rd, Downtown Millburn & the Millburn Middle School and the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum. 

Surrounded by multi-million dollar mansions, this elegant 4 to 5 bedroom home features 2 and a half new baths and is maintained to perfection with many recent upgrades and improvements.

From the moment you walk up the brick front path and see the perennials and mature evergreens in all directions, with brick planters beneath the bay window, and a rolling front lawn, you are in for a treat.

The front hall invites you to a floor plan that is ideal for entertaining family and friends. The original dining room is now used as a cozy sitting room and the elegant formal living room with fireplace, has been transformed into a gracious dining room. Easily switched back, these rooms are focal points that open to the first floor paneled library and also to the rear hall leading to a wonderful family room addition with fireplace, wet bar and an open back porch that is surrounded by blooming hydrangea bushes. The breakfast room addition, designed by Thomas Baio, has an octagonal cupola above, the tastefully redone kitchen and a rear mud room opens to a blue stone patio and the attached garage (which can fit 2 small cars) is just off of the kitchen.

Upstairs you will find 2 possible master suites, one with a sitting room, and one with a private deck, and both with redone bathrooms. There are 3 other bathrooms, all with hardwood floor and neutrally decorated rooms. 

The basement has a paneled recreation room with a bar, utility room with laundry and 2 very spacious storage rooms. One of these areas is sunken low in the ground with extra high ceilings and has potential to be finished with a full bath and bedroom with an outside entrance to the yard.

Rarely does a gem like this come on the market. The taxes were recently appealed and are now quite reasonable for all the added amenities and top location.

Listing agent: Karen Eastman Bigos, Towne Realty Group 
Direct: 201-417-1600 
Office: 973-376-8300 x222

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