513 PROSPECT AVE Princeton, NJ 08540

Nestled in the heart of the Riverside School neighborhood, this charming red Dutch colonial home is offered for sale. As you approach this home, mature landscaping/perennials and a porch welcome you. Brick flooring and a hard wood staircase add character to the foyer. The sunny large living room with hardwood flooring opens into the dining room which has two built-in corner china cabinets. In the dining room a louvered door offers privacy from the kitchen with cherry cupboards. The kitchen's eat-in area with expansive window view, opens to the family room with a beautiful view through slider of the slate patio area. A Vermont Castings stove and brick fireplace is the center piece of the family room, which also boasts a wall of built-in shelving and cabinets. Completing the first floor is a large bedroom or bonus room, a full bath, and a mud room/laundry area with two large closets and peg racks leading to both the front door and the garage door. As you ascend the stairs, two bedrooms are to the right, and three to the left. The master bedroom has its own bathroom with a separate vanity area. The other four bedrooms share a hall bathroom with two sinks. All 6 bedrooms have hardwood flooring and large closets with built-in shelving. One bedroom on the right has walk-in easy access to a second attic with storage space over the garage. The other attic has a pull-down staircase. The basement, accessible from the kitchen, has a semi-finished area for entertaining, a separate large room/workshop, and a crawl space for easy storage and home maintenance. Besides generous storage closets and built in shelving throughout, special features of this home include: a second floor exhaust fan made to quickly cool down/air out the entire house (in case you don't want to run the dual zoned central air conditioners), an intercom system wired into all rooms/porch ready to be updated and used as wireless speakers, plumbing in place for an optional foyer water fountain, a 2 car garage, a deer fence protecting the .5 acre yard with optional driveway gate on pulley, built in post holders for a volleyball net, and in walking/biking distance to the university. This home has been lovingly cared for by the same family for 53 years.