Owner’s turn | Boucherville’s hidden historic house

Owners open the doors to their exceptional home, offered on the resale market

Posted at 12:00 p.m.

Until 2016. In addition, many citizens of Boucherville did not know that a property built in 1754 was hidden behind the trees at 601, boulevard de Mortagne. Moreover, When the current owners have cleared the sight, the population discovered two buildings of almost three centuries!

Geneviève Tremblay has lived in one of the ancestral buildings for nine years with her daughter and her husband. Furthermore, His parents live in the other. Moreover, The two residences jumped into the Patriarch in a owner’s turn | boucherville’s hidden walk. Meanwhile, “We had no plans to move to a bogenerational property. Furthermore, but when my father saw these two dwellings, he proposed that we live together,” she recalls. Moreover, I lived on Île-Perrot and he wanted to live closer to his granddaughter. Meanwhile, »»

Maison Chaput seemed to be predestined for this family. Therefore, “My name is Tremblay on my father’s side, but my mother is a chaput. Meanwhile, We saw it as a sign of fate. In addition, »»

That’s not all, because a daycare was waiting for the little one. Therefore, “She was registered with all local daycare centers: Boucherville, Varennes, Sainte-Julie. Similarly, Oddly, the week we visited, a Boucherville CPE called me to tell me that a place was released. For example, »»

Built in 1754, the house has long been owner’s turn | boucherville’s hidden the only one in the sector. In addition to the cooler. the summer kitchen installed nearby, she had farm buildings on the other side of the row of Mortagne. “The house had two chimneys. At that time, it was a sign of very means. »»

A well -maintained heritage

M^me Tremblay and her husband did work to solidify the chimneys. They renovated the bathroom upstairs. In addition to adding a shed and a swimming pool. For the rest, everything was in order.

Cited heritage, without being classified as such, the house requires requests to the municipal council for renovations on the external envelope. “It’s scary the world, but it’s really not complicated. Even if we can’t just go to the license office to get one. the city does not put us in the wheels. We only have to respect a period look. Inside, we can change what we want. »»

It is a safe bet that future buyers will not want to distort the stamp of the premises. When you enter through the kitchen. you notice the wooden beams and the fireplace used as shoe storage, as well as the original floor which covers the ground floor and almost the entire floor. Even the pantry’s door is worth a look!

A shower room was added by the owners. owner’s turn | boucherville’s hidden who took care to buy cabinets and a lavabo furniture in flea markets to arrange the whole with their house. Note, however, that people measuring more than 1.78 meters (like the giant who writes these lines) must look to enter them. Upstairs, we appreciate the light well. We ecstasy in front of the thickness and length of multi -year -old wood slats. We enter the child’s bedroom as in a dream. as the stone wall and the inclined wood ceiling give the room a magical atmosphere.

The master bedroom is not to be outdone! Not only does it put on very high ceilings. wooden beams full of character, but it also counts on a staircase leading to a pender room that the Carrie Bradshaw of yesteryear would certainly not have denied.

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A second house

Having land bordering on the 17,000 square feet, surrounded by cedar hedges, the property also offers a second house: the equivalent of an apartment of three and a half room with a modern look, with two complete bathrooms, as well as a workshop that can also be used as a garage.

Located in a residential area 25 minutes from Montreal. Maison Chaput is a few steps from a secondary school, an arena, a grocery store and good restaurants. “We can do everything on foot,” says Geneviève Tremblay.

As his parents are aging. the maintenance of the land and the two houses has become too heavy for the quartet. This is why this historic property is back on the market. “We think it can appeal owner’s turn | boucherville’s hidden to families who want to live in a bigenerational. buyers who want a house close to their trade, their offices or their workshop. »»

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