Got Your Heart Set on University Park? Classic Red Brick Colonial Raises Your IQ for Less Than $250 a Square Foot…

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I have this theory about red-brick, Ivy League-looking houses: they make you smarter. We really should do an IQ test of children raised in red-brick Georgians with ivy-covered brick: my bet is they would have higher TAG scores and better SATs than kids reared in ranches or mid-century moderns. For one thing, the clean-lined life does not lend itself well to books and reading materials scattered about — sleek living is intellectually lean living — agree or disagree?

Just teasin’. About sleek living being intellectually lean.

But I do think 3821 Wentwood could help shape children to study while en route to Harvard, and it will darn sure help you finance the education: at $244.55 a square foot, this home is a huge bargain. You get (ALMOST) a quarter acre lot in University Park, 5230 square feet, five bedrooms, four and a half baths, three living areas, hardwood floors, great open spaces, solid bones and a great floor plan. Gonna be honest: I’d make the kitchen tile floors go bye bye, they are way too hard to stand on and drop a dish, kiss it goodbye. This kitchen could be updated. We are talking surfaces, pure surfaces. I’d bring the wood floors into the kitchen and blend. Appliances are newer, and the cabinets look great. The rest of the house is as classic as it gets, and the yard even has room for a pool or outdoor kitchen. Laundry is upstairs with sink, and the fifth bedroom can be for guests or a gameroom.

And for $1,279,000 you are in Highland Park Schools and Hyer Elementary is walking distance. Leave It To Beaver Goes to Harvard — that’s 3821 Wentwood.

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

4 Comments

  1. Carol on July 19, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    Wow! That's an opinion based purely on speculation! And how do those raised in yellow brick houses fare in academia? Do oak trees in ones yard have a positive or a negative influence as opposed to, let's say, cedar elms?

  2. Carol on July 19, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    Wow! That's an opinion based purely on speculation! And how do those raised in yellow brick houses fare in academia? Do oak trees in ones yard have a positive or a negative influence as opposed to, let's say, cedar elms?

  3. Brick House on July 20, 2012 at 8:03 am

    Sadly Carol, it's true.
    You're going to have to repress the memory of yellow brick and cedar elms.
    Maybe you'll get on Dr.Phil for help.

  4. Brick House on July 20, 2012 at 8:03 am

    Sadly Carol, it's true.
    You're going to have to repress the memory of yellow brick and cedar elms.
    Maybe you'll get on Dr.Phil for help.

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