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This is an exceptional property sharing a private pond with the exclusive Hilldale neighborhood. Any of three living options is highly attractive on this remarkable setting:
*The existing house offers an exhilarating everyday living experience
*The house is designed for a significant expansion
*The unique qualities of this site support a very large new home

Openness and Privacy--For any of these three living options, the extraordinary site is the premium feature. A block-deep lot with a hillcrest overlook offers a wide variety of views while providing a rare degree of family privacy. Because the existing house extends in front of both next-door houses, open views are available up and down the street. You are not closed in by the sides of adjacent houses.

Spacious Property--The lot measures 100 feet wide by 327 feet deep, three-quarters' of an acre. It is wooded, falling approximately 40 feet to the pond and the protected Minnehaha Creek wetlands. Naturally the yard abounds with wildlife: 121 varieties of birds have been sighted from the property. The upper yard has been professionally landscaped.

Living in Light--The light-filled house features a free-flowing plan with a designed office suite. Each room takes on a distinct personality depending on its orientation, season, and time of day. The house has been completely remodeled and rehabilitated. All walls were stripped down to studs, new electrical and plumbing installed, walls fully insulated, and re-framed for new Andersen Perma-Shield windows. Highest-efficiency HVAC dates from 2000.
Interior finishes are uniformly superior in quality. Flooring on the main level is of double-layer oak, with Italian Verona marble in the bathroom, and Summitville quarry tile in the kitchen. The fireplace and front entry floor are Vermont slate. Cabinets in the kitchen and front bedroom are Mutschler; all other casework is custom, constructed of 1" birch, with a Zolatone coating. English and Finnish wallpaper alternate with Zolatone.

A Safe, Quiet and Convenient Neighborhood--This is a good place to live, with friendly and interesting neighbors. It is an easy walk to Grandviewwith Jerry's grocery, a drug store, hardware, cleaners, two banks, car repair, gas stations, library, branch post office, UPS store, beauty salon, liquor store, and restaurants. Byerlys-Target and 50th & France are both within two miles, as is Methodist Hospital.
Todd Park itself, which provides a warming house and lighted hockey rink with boards, along with tennis courts, basketball court, and softball fields, is located at the bottom of the street and one block east. Interlachen Country Club and Edina Country Club are both a mile away, Blake School is a minute beyond Interlachen. Meadowbrook Golf Course is two miles by car. New street paving and utilities upgrades were completed in 2007.

All in all, an exceptional property.