Looking for a large home to fit all of your needs?  You found it!  This 4 bed 3 bath 1859 Victorian farmhouse has everything you need.  The enclosed porch style mud room has plenty of room for your coats, boots, hats and shoes as well as your sporting goods and gear.  From here you enter the kitchen area.  This area includes the large country kitchen with attached pantry (providing plenty of extra storage), a convenient half bath and direct access to the back deck – perfect for grilling and chilling. The kitchen itself features a gas cook stove, dishwasher, refrigerator and a pass thru window into the dining room. The dining room lends itself to both family meals and more formal dinners with its chandelier, white wainscotting and hardwood floors. The great room or living room is a large L-shaped room with plenty of space for 2 seating areas: plenty of room for a TV/Gaming area as well as a great reading area complete with working wood fireplace. Hidden in the “L” of the room behind the fireplace is the Library. Complete with both floor to ceiling bookcase and plenty of light for office work, this space is perfect for those who work at home and want to keep their work and home spaces separate and private.

The second floor features 4 nice sized bedrooms as well as 1.5 bathrooms. From the living room you ascend the front stairway are a met with a cozy reading/music space with views to the west.  3 of the 4 bedrooms are accessed from this area.  The first 2 open directly from this space and feature large windows, plenty of natural light and have spacious closets. A central hallway leads to the full bath/laundry room and a nice sized linen closet. Unless you’ve previously lived in a home with the laundry room on the sleeping floor, you can’t imagine the convenience – no more schlepping baskets of clothes up and down stairs!  You’ll wonder why every home isn’t set up this way! 

Also, off this hallway is the third bedroom with direct access to a half bath.  This is a “walk-thru” bath that is shared with the 4th bedroom.  The fourth bedroom is located in the back of the home over the kitchen area.  It is spacious yet comfy and has a beautiful photo/mural of Mount Katahdin that makes the atmosphere very serene and peaceful.  This bedroom also has its own private staircase to the kitchen below lending to plenty of privacy as well.  

The home is 2674 SF of living space, sits on a 1.3± acre lot and is just 5 minutes from downtown Presque Isle. The home is on a full concrete foundation and the electric is 100 amp with updated wiring.  The basement can be accessed from inside the pantry or from a bulkhead beside the deck.  The lot is mostly open and surrounded by evergreens which help protect the yard for the wind on 3 sides.  Off the deck there is a firepit and gathering space that just screams for making music and s’mores on summer evenings. The front of the home features the classic wrap-around “porch” (which in this case has been converted to a patio eliminating the need to paint, repair or replace a porch floor. The home is serviced by private well and septic and has high-speed internet.  

Presque Isle Maine is the hub of commerce for Aroostook County and has plenty of shopping, a University of Maine campus, the Northern Maine Community College campus and several lakes and parks as well as a small international airport.  The Aroostook State Park is located just 3 miles from this home and offers public boat access, a public beach, camping and hiking trails all on Echo Lake.  Intown, there is Riverside Park which offers a children’s play area and picnic area on the banks of the Presque Isle Steam and is adjacent to the Sargent Family Community Center which features a splash pad, picnic areas, and a gym, as well as facilities for kids' birthday parties.  There is also Mantle Lake Park, a recreational park featuring a mid-sized network of non-motorized recreation trails, a pond (Mantle Lake), several picnic areas with shelters, tennis courts, and a sizable playground for children. Both ATV and snowmobile trails run throughout the area with many great access points.

All in all, this home offers the perfect location (just outside town surrounded by nature while being convenient to all the services and recreational opportunities that Presque Isle has to offer. Come see for yourself the beauty and serenity that Presque Isle has to offer.