Buy my house!
My 1925 Tudor on half an acre in Elkins Park, PA is up for sale. Here's why I loved living in it
This is, perhaps, an unusual post for me in this space, but: I’m selling my home, it's a great house, and I want you to know about it.
7 Windsor Ave, Elkins Park, PA was built in 1925. Set on half an acre of land, it’s a beautiful Tudor home with a ton of space and flexibility. The photos speak for themselves.
I loved living here. Its second floor rooms are well-suited to being set up as spacious work-from-home offices, which is what we did — the whole family comfortably worked from the house. I commuted into the offices in Manhattan and DC many times a month, which I found both easy and genuinely fun via train — and the rest of the time I enjoyed the leafy, peaceful neighborhood. It’s very close to schools and daycares, and it felt like a privilege to be able to do drop-off and pick-up on foot.
I’ve headed west for an opportunity I couldn’t say no to, but it was emotionally hard to part with it. I fell in love with it in many ways — there’s no way I could have this level of space and peace while maintaining proximity to major cities at this price in California.
Elkins Park is an architecturally significant suburb of Philadelphia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s only synagogue and Lynnewood Hall are both in the neighborhood, and the homes are magnificent. And as I mentioned above, it’s also a very accessible commute into New York City. There’s public transit within a few minutes’ walk, which takes you into Philadelphia, 30th Street Station, and Philadelphia International Airport without changes. Elkins Park itself has restaurants, a coffee roastery, and a great bookstore. The Crying in H Mart H Mart is also here; the Korean restaurants in the neighborhood are so good that people travel from NYC to eat there. It’s just a few minutes away from Glenside — the Keswick Theatre there hosts acts like the Magnetic Fields and John Waters — and Jenkintown, which is home to breweries, indie movie houses, and more.
7 Windsor Ave is represented by Charlotte Pellechia at Kurfiss Sotheby’s. You can book a viewing via its Zillow listing or contact Charlotte directly.
