Moving Out: Scarborough Street, Hartford
Posted on April 10th, 2011
On their 1928 holiday card, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coit Tyler sent a photograph of their home and an engraved promise to family and friends: “You will always be welcome here.”
The three-story Tudor they built in 1926 is as elegant and inviting today as it was when the Tylers first greeted guests, but with 21st-century comforts, including central air conditioning and a remodeled kitchen with double ovens, two sinks and two dishwashers.
“When you walk into the house, the open floor plan, the light and the grandeur really capture you,” said Mollie Abend of Prudential Connecticut Realty in West Hartford. “It has all the original charm, but also beautiful, beautiful updates for today’s lifestyle.”
It also has a third-floor bedroom that could be used as suite for an au pair or a teenager.
Owners Meg and James Casey rented the 12-room house to a couple they knew when they moved in 2009 to Arkansas, where James Casey, a former executive with The Hartford, took a similar position. Now they want to sell the house, which is on one of the West End’s most beautiful streets, a boulevard of mansions and handsome estates that comes alive with blossoming trees in spring.
Meg Casey, a marketing consultant, said that when they decided to move from Burlington to Hartford 10 years ago, in part to be closer to Kingswood-Oxford School for their two children, her husband told her to look for a house with a “wow” factor. She found it in the sun room of the Tudor, which has a fountain on one of the walls.
They ran the fountain when they had their many parties, she said.
Brian McGurk of SKS Real Estate in Hartford, who grew up in the house in the 1940s and 1950s, remembers the fountain. “We used to keep little goldfish in there,” he said. He recalls his parents’ putting on lavish parties and entertaining the archbishop of Hartford at the time with an Easter brunch.
The sun room opens to a large slate patio and lush grounds where the Caseys’ twin son and daughter, who are now 24, invited their friends and their dates, and all of their parents — a crowd of about 100 people — to take pictures before their junior prom.
Inside, a grand foyer with a sweeping staircase is graced with french doors that open to the formal living room and the sun room.
The living room, with an oversize fireplace, hardwood floors and crown molding, leads to a large family room with a gas fireplace and built-ins.
With so much room, making guests comfortable was easy, said Casey.
“What I loved about the house is nobody ever wound up in the kitchen,” she said with a chuckle.
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