New On The Market: 4788 Reading Road, The Avalon Red Seal Home

New On The Market: 4788 Reading Road, The Avalon Red Seal Home

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4788 Reading Road, at the corner of Avonlea Avenue, is an Italian Revival that boasts truly unusual detail with its indoor vintage fountain, marble mosaic kitchen, and updated bathrooms. The exterior offers a scalloped privacy fence and running herringbone pattern patio with water feature on a .23 acre lot. Erected in 1927 and featured in that year’s Beautiful Home Exposition at Cincinnati Music Hall, this home was originally built by developer H.C. Stanforth as the “Avalon” Red Seal model home, the first of its kind in the city, as per The Cincinnati Enquirer, (Cincinnati, Ohio) · 6 May 1928, Sun · Page 50.

Listed at $269,000, the 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home has an accepted contract but back-up offers may be considered. Let’s take a look inside:

Though frequently erroneously attributed to Rookwood, this Batchelder fountain from Pasadena, California is a rarity, especially in a Midwestern home of this size. The tiled solarium floor is likely not from the same maker, but is also original to the home.
The updated kitchen features stainless steel appliances and a marble mosaic backsplash
The spacious living room features six windows and a new fireplace surround, ready for a flatscreen television
Two of the updated bathrooms
Triple arched windows in a front-facing bedroom
Stanforth, who also developed homes in the Bella Vista Historic District and elsewhere in Bond Hill, offered a 1928 Oakland sedan as part of the purchase of the home

The home is within easy walking distance to the Mercy Health campus and extremely convenient to the Norwood Lateral and I-75. This home is offered by Todd Helton of Sibcy Cline and is listed here.

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