{"id":15561,"date":"2018-11-28T19:33:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T00:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=15561"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:09:23","slug":"hunt-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/hunt-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 2018 | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/Dec18%20House%20of%20the%20Month.pdf\">view this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">This John Calvin Stevens townhouse is ready to welcome a new family to the West End.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dec18-House-of-the-Month.jpg\" alt=\"Dec18-House-of-the-Month\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dec18-House-of-the-Month.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dec18-House-of-the-Month-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dec18-House-of-the-Month-200x151.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>W<\/span><span class=\"s2\">elcome to the \u201cclub.\u201d Your family will adore living in this 1890 Queen Anne townhouse commissioned by Portland merchant shipping prince George S. Hunt\u2013an ancestor of Oscar-winner Helen Hunt. Listed for $985,000, the western half of the Hunt Block (335 Spring Street) checks off many of the essentials required for perfect digs in the heart of the West End.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Designed by John Calvin Stevens and decorated with ivy, this family home base is steps from Waynflete and features a private brick driveway. Massive double doors open to hand-painted wallpaper flying up the stairwell. On each side of the staircase is a parlor. The right parlor features a nearly room-sized bay window. The left parlor glows with a fireplace. Quarter-sawn oak floors conduct you to the dining room with fireplace and on to the eat-in kitchen with cork floors and views of the enclosed back yard so cloistered you can use the hot tub in the middle of the city. New owners will surely be comfy with the recently added slate roof, central air on the first and second floors, four walk-in closets, four bedrooms, and five baths. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\">T<\/span><span class=\"s5\">he detail here that gets your heart racing is the curved gallery crowning the second-floor landing. Was this a rare case of anima rising for Stevens, who in my mind is memorable for his right angles?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>To misquote Wallace Stevens, \u201cRationalists wear square hats. Dreamers wear sombreros.\u201d Actually, John Calvin Stevens partnered with Albert Winslow Cobb on the Hunt Block. Maybe Cobb threw in the curves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cWe bought it from Peter and Carol Merrill,\u201d says Melissa Tomback, founder of Breathe Deeply Doula. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Listing agent Erin Oldham, Ph.D., says the eventual buyer will probably come from \u201cPhiladelphia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, or Massachusetts.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Is that you, dreamer?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This townhouse is as good as it gets. Taxes are $11,388.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2018<br \/>\nThis John Calvin Stevens townhouse is ready to welcome a new family to the West End.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[892,232,224],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-15561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","category-shelter-design","category-talking-walls","tag-december-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15565,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions\/15565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}