Builder's family has put new soul into a century-old Victorian

90 Central St., Foxborough
Price $799,900
Style Victorian
Built 1904
Square feet 4,876
Rooms 11
Bedrooms 4
Bathrooms 3.5
Sewer public

FOXBOROUGH - Inside the kitchen with its Franke sink, cherry cabinets, and pot filler above the stove is a refrigerated stainless-steel wine cooler built into the granite-topped kitchen island. But there isn't any wine in the cooler right now. Instead, it's doing duty as a kids' refrigerator, with yogurt, Gatorade, and water for their two young children.

Domenic and Pamela Lanzilo were thinking this would be an adults-only house when they purchased it in 2001, and since expanded it by grafting some 2,000 square feet of new living space onto the old soul of the century-old Victorian. But having been twice proven wrong, they are now looking for a larger piece of land than the 20,000 square-foot lot, and a road less traveled than Central Street.

Lanzilo is a builder and his family will be leaving nice stuff behind. Passing the New England farm stone fence that seals home from street, the front door is old, an oval glass dominant. A rightward turn leads to the living room with its original ceramic-faced fireplace, nine-foot ceilings, and face-nailed oak flooring that Lanzilo has burnished, but not changed.

A dining room, with built-ins, and the original flooring and breathable space follows, leading to a long hallway connecting the old soul with the new. Floors are a changing mixture of oak and Brazilian mahogany or Brazilian cherry. The 23-by-20-foot family room has a massive working fireplace and adjoins a brightly painted recreation room.

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source : boston.com