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A three-bedroom home with a guest cottage in Key West, an 18th-century Dutch Colonial in Brooklyn and a Federal-style townhouse in Alexandria.

This white clapboard house, at the corner of Southard and William Streets in the heart of Old Town, is being sold with all of its furnishings, down to the pots and pans. It is on Solares Hill, the highest point on Key West, and the structure itself is elevated, reducing the cost of flood insurance. City records date the main building to 1928 and the cottage to 1933, but they could well be older.

Size: 2,310 square feet

Price per square foot: $1,298

Indoors: The current owner, Laura Barletta, an interior designer based in Boston, just completed a thorough renovation that paid its respects to the house’s original use of Dade County Pine. Reclaimed antique boards cover the floors and several walls on both levels.

The new kitchen has custom Shaker-style white cabinets with honed Aztec blue-granite counters, stainless steel appliances and a farmhouse sink. There are two full pantries. Seating is at a breakfast bar and in an adjacent open-plan living-and-dining area.

The master suite is on the main level. The bedroom has a vaulted ceiling, a custom brass bed and velvet curtains. The suite also includes a large walk-in closet and a bathroom with twin vanities and a large shower faced in stone with a basket-weave tile floor.

The two second-floor bedrooms are on either end of a mezzanine hallway. Both have vaulted ceilings created by breaking into the attic, and both open out to the roofed balcony running along the front and side of the building, above the porch. (Their en suite bathrooms, with floating vanities, offer balcony access, too.)

The guest cottage has a dedicated exterior entrance that opens to a living-and-dining area with a small, white kitchen with European appliances. Behind it is a bathroom with a shower lined in blue-glass subway tile, followed by a bedroom.

Outdoor space: A white picket fence surrounds the palm-studded front and side yards of the main house. The cottage is approached by a brick-paved driveway used for off-street parking. French doors lead out from the master suite to what the listing broker described as a “cocktail pool” — not large enough for swimming, but adequately sized for sitting around and sipping a rum runner.

Taxes: $10,168 (2019)

Contact: Brenda Donnelly, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Knight & Gardner Realty, 305-304-1116; flexmls.com


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This property, which is known as the Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont House and is on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the few Dutch Colonial farmhouses in Brooklyn to remain in private hands. Just three families have owned it since it was built by Hendrick H. Wyckoff before the Revolutionary War, as the anchor of a 100-acre farm in what is currently the Madison neighborhood in southern Brooklyn.

Cornelius W. Bennett bought the homestead in 1835, and his descendants remained there until 1982. A 2010 New York Times story noted that his great-great-granddaughter Gertrude Ryder Bennett, who was born in 1901, wrote two books about the house, in which she “recalled watching horse races on Ocean Parkway, visiting the Canarsie Indians, and growing up by kerosene light” because “her grandmother feared both newfangled gas and electricity.” (The house now has these comforts, as well as central heat and air-conditioning.)

In 1983, Annette and Stuart Mont paid $160,000 for the house and all of its contents, which had accrued from previous owners and included antique furniture, quilts, toys, tools and historic documents. Following their deaths, it is in the possession of their children and is being sold with many of the furnishings and artifacts.

The house sits in a parklike lot at the corner of East 22nd Street and Avenue P, near the intersection with Kings Highway. Around the turn of the 20th century, to meet the requirements of a planned street grid, it was rotated 90 degrees clockwise to face west, and its foundation was excavated to create a large, brick-lined basement. Dormers and the columned veranda were added, as well.

Size: 3,000 square feet

Price per square foot: $967

Indoors: Original wide-board floors, sash windows and hardware have survived the centuries, as has paneling described in the application for historic preservation status as “of museum quality.”

A Dutch door with strap hinges and a pair of blue-green bull’s-eye windows opens to a hallway with 250-year-old floorboards. Parlors to the right and left have symmetrical layouts, each with a pair of front-facing windows and an arched, paneled closet on either or both sides of a nonoperating fireplace. (The southern parlor’s firebox is surrounded by original Dutch tiles.) Each parlor connects to a smaller chamber with a pair of windows facing back.

A secondary entrance to the left of the main one leads into the kitchen wing. The kitchen has a vaulted ceiling, exposed beams and a soaring brick chimney with a fireplace that dwarfs the attached Victorian cast-iron stove. Wood counters repurposed from portions of the ceiling are inset with blue-and-white tiles and a farmhouse sink. A dining room with a built-in corner cabinet is behind the kitchen, and a bathroom and laundry are off to the side.

Four bedrooms and a storage room are on the second floor. Two of the bedrooms are connected by pocket doors, and one of the pair includes a small sink. Another bedroom is entirely paneled like a ship’s cabin. A hall bathroom contains a vintage cast-iron tub and a much newer walk-in shower.

A utility kitchen and additional storage rooms are in the basement.

Outdoor space: The main entrance hall cuts through the house and walks out through a Dutch door to a back patio. The barn has two stories and two entrances and also serves as a garage. The fenced grounds are planted with ivy and grape vines.

Taxes: $20,000 (estimated)

Contact: Delton Cheng, Century 21 Homefront, 718-252-6060; century21.com


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This Federal-era house, in the Old Town section of Alexandria, includes a number of interventions made in Victorian times, including a shingled mansard roof and a rear addition. At one point the house was converted into apartments, but it was restored as a single-family property in the 1970s. The sellers have owned it for five years. They combined the double Victorian parlors, added a heated screened porch and put up wallpaper and custom window shades in several rooms.

The house is four and a half blocks west of the Potomac River and nine blocks north of the Capital Beltway. It is a block from the shops and restaurants on King Street and convenient to public transportation, including two Metro stops and bus access. Washington is eight miles north.

Size: 4,122 square feet

Price per square foot: $727

Indoors: Double glass doors open from the checkerboard-tiled vestibule to a stair hall with a high ceiling and polished hardwood floor. To the right is the elongated living room, with twin fireplaces that have decorative neo-Classical mantels (the fireplaces have been plumbed for gas, but the chimneys need relining). To the left is a game room whose walls are papered in a Cole & Son pattern of black-and-white palm fronds.

The living room continues into a hallway that was added in the Victorian era to link the older and newer building sections; it is currently covered in Cole & Son Gondola wallpaper. A Victorian-era skylight brings illumination through clear and colored panes, and the sellers built a small wine bar with a narrow refrigerator for entertaining, A powder room off this space has lacquered teal walls and a fluted pedestal sink.

The hall leads to a family room with hardwood floors, built-in shelves on either side of a gas-burning fireplace and French doors with arched, stained-glass transoms. (One opens to an outdoor patio.) The adjacent kitchen has two-toned (pale yellow and white) cabinetry topped in honed black soapstone, Cole & Son blue-vinyl-covered walls and a cherry-red AGA stove. It connects to the walkout dining room, which has red walls, added cabinets and multiple skylights.

The second-floor master suite includes windows on three walls, a pair of filigreed-wood closet doors the owners bought in China and a bathroom surfaced in dark wood and travertine. A sitting room with a fireplace connects to the master or can be entered from the hall. A third bedroom has a fireplace with a brass insert; a 1960s-era Capiz-shell chandelier; an en suite bathroom with black-and-white tile; and a double closet. There is also a windowed laundry room on this level.

The lofty third floor contains a pair of connected bedrooms (one has walls of built-ins and a fireplace and easily passes for a den). The shared bathroom includes a tub with a shower head.

Finished space in the basement is used for playing pool.

Outdoor space: A fenced brick side patio with lots of room for seating contains boxwoods and other plantings, as well as a fountain. Off-street parking for one car is in a walled-off portion.

Taxes: $26,274

Contact: Vici Boguess, Clay Burke or Sissy Zimmerman, the BBZ Group, McEnearney Associates Realtors, 703-447-2829; bbzgroup.com

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