A Kennedy is promoting her Hyannis home for below $1.6m
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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend purchased this Cape Cod home minutes from the Kennedy compound to host her household. “I had a dream that I’d recreate the … fantastic youth that I had.”
189 Breakwater Shores Drive, Hyannis
$1.595 million
Fashion Cut up entry
12 months constructed 1966
Sq. ft 3,165
Bedrooms 5
Baths 4 full, 1 half
Sewer/Water Public
Taxes $12,042 (2026)
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend had a imaginative and prescient.
“I had a dream that I’d recreate the youth, the fantastic youth that I had, for my youngsters and grandchildren, so they might come to the Cape; they might sail, they might stroll on breakwater, go on the seaside, have picnics, be with their cousins and aunts and uncles, and it will be, you recognize, fantastic summers,” stated the eldest daughter of the late Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy and sister of US Well being and Human Companies Secretary RFK Jr.
About 4 years in the past, she bought this split-entry raised ranch — six minutes by bicycle from the famed household compound — and up to date and expanded the house.
“I wished it to be a spot the place you might have plenty of folks get pleasure from themselves and use the seaside and be in a secure place,” she stated.
The property consists of deeded seaside rights and a personal entrance to a sandy seaside on Nantucket Sound.
“I put in an enormous bathtub downstairs; a tub is sweet for adults to luxuriate in, and if you should wash your youngsters, it was large enough to place two or three youngsters in,” Kennedy Townsend added.
However her prolonged household has not been drawn to the Cape like she was, and now Kennedy Townsend is promoting the renovated dwelling close to Circo Pond (a favourite spot for native swans).
“I had this glorious dream,” stated the previous Maryland lieutenant governor. “However not all goals work, proper?”
A walkway on the peak of a horseshoe-shaped driveway results in the entrance door hid beneath a 36-square-foot portico with columns. The lobby has a break up stairwell with stairways down and up.
Heading up, the steps result in a hallway with bedrooms to the correct and the gathering areas to the left. The 286-square-foot front room stretches throughout the entrance of the house, and 5 plate-glass home windows grouped collectively. On the finish is a gasoline hearth framed by a white picket mantel. Refinished oak flooring is used all through this stage.
A large doorway opens to a mixed eating and kitchen space, a becoming a member of confirmed by way of sq. tiles on the ground. The 141-square-foot eating space is nestled in a three-window bump-out.
Extra daylight arrives by clear glass sliders resulting in the 305-square-foot rear deck overlooking the yard with what Kennedy Townsend described as a “backyard with flowers so you may really feel comfy,” together with a fireplace pit.
About 120 sq. ft is put aside for the kitchen, which is at present outfitted with an oblong desk that has seating for eight. There are two ranges of kitchen cupboards, painted white, with sandstone tile because the backsplash. The stainless-steel sink is positioned below a window with views of the yard. The vary is electrical, and the home equipment are a mixture of stainless-steel and white.
Returning to the entrance hallway, the primary personal area is an 88-square-foot lavatory on the left facet of the house. The flooring is blue-and-white checkered tile. The partitions have Nantucket beadboard on the decrease half and wallpaper with blueprints of sailboats on the highest. A white single self-importance is on the correct, and on the left is a separate storage cupboard. A small alcove hosts a clawfoot bathtub with a curtained bathe.
Persevering with down the hallway, there are closets on either side earlier than reaching the 2 bedrooms on this stage. The bigger of the 2, 195 sq. ft, has three double-hung home windows on two partitions and a double-doored closet. The smaller, 133 sq. ft, is on the entrance of the home and in addition has three double-hung home windows.
Take the stairway to the highest ground, the place the first suite, two different bedrooms, and one other full lavatory are positioned. The first bed room is among the many largest rooms in the home at 265 sq. ft. It has double-hung home windows on two partitions and two closets. The ground is identical oak as the lounge.
The 27-square-foot main tub has a white pedestal sink, a big double-hung window, and sand-colored tile on the partitions and because the backsplash for the bathe.
The secondary tub, off the hallway, is 54 sq. ft. It has a bathe behind a curtain; the bathe backsplash and the decrease half of the partitions are sq. blue tile. There’s a white pedestal sink, a single window, and flooring of mosaic tiles in various shades of blue.
The secondary bedrooms occupy the rest of the left facet of the house. The bigger of the 2, at 217 sq. ft, has a 31-square-foot walk-in closet. The smaller is 122 sq. ft with two home windows on the rear with good views.
The ultimate stage is a part of the renovations pursued by Kennedy Townsend. It consists of the 44-square-foot lavatory, which has a curtained rectangular tub with a sandstone coloured tile backsplash and a single self-importance.
The lavatory and stairwell bisect this stage into two rooms with potential use as bedrooms, household rooms, or gathering locations. The bonus room on the left facet of the house has a hearth (the brand new proprietor should examine its performance) inset in a white brick wall. The rooms have ample pure mild by above-ground home windows. The laundry space can be on this stage. The decrease stage is a complete of 934 sq. ft.
Heating is by pure gasoline, and there’s a tankless water heater.
“For a household that lives in Boston or Windfall, or anyplace shut, it’s simply ultimate,” stated Kennedy Townsend.
Kathy E. O’Neil of Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty has the itemizing.
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