2025 Fairview Road Raleigh
Indulge in this graceful Italian Renaissance Revival residence in an exceptional setting, emerging from Raleigh’s early suburban history, now an enclave of urban adventure brimming with galleries, shops, and restaurants. The home invites with a wide, antique brick front walkway trimmed with limestone. Welcoming double front doors with iron decorative scrollwork grilles and brass lead to vestibule handcrafted with one-of-a-kind tiled floors, walls, and doors. Extraordinary detailing permeates this magnificent home, including its grand foyer introducing 12’ ceilings, impeccable wood floors, and leafand-dart crown molding displayed throughout. Strong framing, thick walls, solid construction creates substantial feeling the home has provided for the last 100 years. 2
2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh
Elegant and open formal living room and dining room boast fireplaces adorned with intricately detailed mantles and gas logs with symmetrical glass doors flanking leading to sunroom and veranda. Both rooms boast oversized windows dazzling with natural light and picturesque views and perfect for grand scale entertaining with marvelous flow throughout with numerous and varying spaces for home enjoyment and gatherings. Handsome and intimate family room features extensive built-ins and custom cabinetry, opens through French glass doors to living room and another doorway to marble floored rear hall and entry. 2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh
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Kitchen welcomes with stunning wide-planked heart pine flooring, set on the diagonal, and features extensive use of floor to ceiling Xylem cabinets for the ultimate in organization and ease for homeowner as well as caterer. Additional features include: oversized built-in planning deck with handsome heart pine surface, top-of-the-line appliances including built-in refrigerator & freezer, and center island with 5-burner gas cooktop, and wine fridge. Extensive use of floor-to-ceiling built-in shelving and cabinets highlights the entry, perfect for display of collectibles, art, and books. Wonderful, bright breakfast room enjoys prime location overlooking breathtaking grounds & boasts spectacular views for the ultimate in dining and enjoyment with family and friends. This delightful room is complete with three walls of floor-to-ceiling windows and includes 100-year-old icebox converted to storage, adding charm reflecting the home’s 100-year history. 4
2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh
Enjoy the spacious sunroom and veranda, balanced in the homes symmetrical façade, with tile floors, heavy moldings and details. Sunroom includes wood-burning fireplace for cozy moments, painted paneled walls and built-ins plus storage cabinets, as well as three walls complete with floor-to-ceiling windows and doors for fabulous views throughout the year.
The veranda is extensively detailed for an exterior room, includes built-in speakers. and provides incredible views and special moments in the out-of-doors. Its close proximity to the kitchen, presents numerous opportunities for outside kitchen and or grills if desired.
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The upstairs and the second full level include the elegant master suite. Luxurious master bath features his and her baths with each bath featuring travertine tile including travertine heated floors, its own vanity storage, walk-in-closet and commode. His bath incorporates a pass-thru steam shower and hers a large luxurious soaking tub. Pocket doors to walk-in closets provide space saving options, further enhancing the efficiency and ease of access. 6
2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh
Convenient along the upstairs landing is a welldesigned laundry with built-ins and sink, all a rarity of the home’s era. Approach to the mezzanine level, one is greeted by artfully created stained glass door and windows, an art form rare today. At the top of the landing one enters bedroom or possible study that sparkles throughout in its natural light through oversized windows. Adjoining this room is a most enchanting full bath. Three other bedrooms, two ensuite, appear on the second floor landing in addition to the master suite. 2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh
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Detached outbuilding and office is divided and suited for use as a home office as well as a den and family room. Front room includes a stone gas log fireplace, wall-to-wall built-ins, built-in planning desk, two walls of French glass panels and doors, vaulted wood-paneled ceiling with exposed beams, track lighting, and ceiling fan. The back room with half bath, fridge, glass exterior door & transom, track lighting, and charming original windows and hardware. 8
2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh
2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD… AND JUST GETTING STARTED. “Good bones, really good bones.” A unique home, that has stood the test of time. In both quality and cost, this residence far exceeds top-of-the-line houses built by the standards of today. The recent renovations (including kitchen, breakfast room and master suite) bring the design and utility of this property consistent with the best of today’s luxury dwellings — you’ll have all the modern conveniences plus the timeless architecture of a bygone era, embracing solid construction with artistic detail and all in perfect balance. You’ll feel the difference.
THE FACTS GENERAL
• Built in 1919, the York-Drake House exudes the charm of Raleigh’s early days as well as luxurious living and state-of-the-art features of today. • Constructed by Charles V. York prominent builder of Raleigh’s finest homes and buildings. • This home is one of the finest built, and is a ‘contributing resource’ to the Hayes Barton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic places. • Property features 6,194 finished square feet including detached office.
EXTERIOR
• Spanish Colonial Revival, yellow brick, 2-story, hipped tile roof, wide eaves, molded stone string course. • Main block is five bays with 8/8 and 6/6 oversized windows, a major factor contributing to the natural light streaming throughout the entire house. • East and west wings are single story, masonry and flat-roofed. • 15” solid brick walls providing longterm structural integrity and natural insulation. • Rear elevation has colonnaded glass breakfast room and open porch. • Limestone trim.
LAND
• 0.92-acres situated on two lots. • Front recently redesigned and re-landscaped: new walk, shrubs, plants with irrigation system. • Back minor improvements including stone curbing, refurbished plants (no irrigation). 10
2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh
INTERIOR
• Design open spacious rooms, excellent traffic flow, conducive to entertainment. • Construction custom work, plaster walls, true-dimension lumber, three-room basement, 1,500 sq ft. • Ceilings 12’ ceilings (first floor); 10’ ceilings (second floor); you’ll feel the difference. • Floors wide plank heart pine (kitchen, breakfast room, mezzanine bedroom and garage office). • First Floor original quarter sawn oak floors in main hall, living room, dining room and den. • Second Floor heart pine floors. • Windows double windows (custom, oversized), on two walls in each room. • Artistic Detail interior tile work, extraordinary 10” plaster crown molding and stained glass. • Trim custom cabinets, bookshelves, crown molding. • Sunporch raised ceiling, tile floor, French doors on three sides, characteristic of its time. • Kitchen gutted and replaced, 12’ ceilings, new appliances and cabinets, heart pine floors. • Breakfast Room floor-to-ceiling glass on 3 sides, heart pine floor, extraordinary backyard view. • Master Suite gutted and replaced, his-and-her bathrooms, steam shower, oversized tub, heated floors, generous his-and-her closets. • Second Floor 3 additional bedrooms and mezzanine level room that could be used as bedroom, spacious, separate bathrooms (recently gutted and replaced), laundry room. • Mezzanine Bedroom glass on three sides, heart pine floor, full bathroom. • Electronics rewired for internet, TV, music, and security connections. • Fireplaces three gas logs fireplaces, plus a wood-burning fireplace on the sunporch.
OFFICE / CONVERTED GARAGE
• Converted into light and bright 600-square-foot modern office, plus clerical and administrative space, filing space, half bath, and refrigerator in 2005. • Vaulted ceiling, French doors, wide plank heart pine floors, custom wood casement windows. • Stone gas-log fireplace and separate HVAC. • Red metal roof.
S U P E R B LO C AT I O N
• One walkable block to the lively and thriving Five Points area. Convenient to banks, churches, restaurants, bars, pharmacies, design and antique shops, dry cleaners, service stations, convenience stores and theatre — all within walking distance.
R E N OVAT I O N S
• 2015—2017 • Replaced back foyer half bath. • Master suite his-and-her bathrooms and closets. • New bathrooms in other bedrooms. • New kitchen and glass breakfast room open porch, studio and laundry room. • 1980—1982 • Refurbished the entire house including — replaced radiators with new HVAC, replaced tile roof, replaced kitchen, and bathrooms. 2025 Fairview Road, Raleigh
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