Gloucester, Mass
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WHAT: A 1937 Colonial-style house with six bedrooms, three baths and around 2,800 square feet of space on half an acre of beachfront property.
HOW MUCH: $2,250,000
PER SQUARE FOOT: $806.45
SETTING: The house looks out on the Atlantic. Gloucester, a historic seaport town on Cape Ann, is around 45 minutes north of Boston.
COMMON SPACES: A combined living and dining room has whitewashed wainscoting and a built-in bar. The eat-in kitchen has a fireplace. The front of the house has a sunroom. An upstairs sitting area has a picture window with views of the beach.
PERSONAL SPACES: Three bedrooms, including the master, are on the first floor and have hardwood floors; the other bedrooms, on the second floor, have wall-to-wall carpeting.
OUTDOOR SPACE: A large deck, the width of the house, overlooks native grasses and the beach in the distance.
AMENITIES: A double fireplace opens to the living room on one side and the kitchen on the other. There is a two-car attached garage.
TAXES: $10,953.67 a year
CONTACT: Catherine Albiani (781) 799-6252, or Penny Lamb (781) 625-4298; Waterfield Sotheby’s International Realty
Chicago
WHAT: An 1888 row house with five bedrooms, five baths and around 5,000 square feet of space.
HOW MUCH: $2,499,000
PER SQUARE FOOT: $499.80
SETTING: This stone house is on a residential block in the Gold Coast, a neighborhood north of downtown known for its architecture, restaurants and boutiques. Lake Michigan is two blocks east; the Clark/Division “L” station is a couple of blocks west.
COMMON SPACES: The front door opens directly into the living room. Original details like wood paneling, pocket doors and a carved fireplace mantel and staircase banister, are found throughout the main level. The kitchen is open to a family sitting area and has a Viking stove and oven, a Sub-Zero refrigerator and granite countertops. A carpeted recreation room is on the basement level.
PERSONAL SPACES: The master bedroom has a walk-in closet/dressing area with built-in wooden cabinets. The master bath has a glass-walled shower stall and jetted tub. All of the bedrooms have hardwood floors.
OUTDOOR SPACE: These include a patio off of the kitchen and a rooftop deck.
AMENITIES: The house has seven fireplaces and a two-car attached garage.
TAXES: $20,100 a year
CONTACT: Jackie Lafferty, Baird & Warner (773) 697-5586; www.bairdwarner.com
Novato, Calif.
WHAT: A 4,750-square-foot four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath house in the Renaissance at Stonetree Golf Club, a gated community.
HOW MUCH: $2,400,000
PER SQUARE FOOT: $505.26
SETTING: This subdivision is near the San Pablo Bay and Petaluma River. Novato is the northernmost city in Marin County, around 30 miles north of San Francisco. Nearby attractions include wineries, forests, lakes and parks.
COMMON SPACES: A family rooms leads out to a deck. The kitchen has dark wooden cabinets, a center island and stainless-steel appliances.
PERSONAL SPACES: The master bedroom is on the main level; the master bath has two vanities, a shower stall and a soaking tub.
OUTDOOR SPACE: The front of the house has a fountain with a koi pond and landscaping that includes orchids and palm trees. There are decks off of the family room, the recreation room on the lower level and a bedroom on the lower level.
AMENITIES: These include a three-car attached garage and a built-in computer desk on the lower level. The community has a pool, golf course and clubhouse with a restaurant.
TAXES: $19,900 a year; homeowner association fee, $215 a month
CONTACT: Anna Boucher or Ladan Mazhari, McGuire Real Estate (415) 860-1399; www.mcguire.com
Try a six-round shootout with your team's playoff life, however dwindling, on the line and no margin for error. But Miller, aided by a goalpost or two and a crossbar when it counted in overtime, was able to do what Raycroft, who tried hard, was not able to do, which is hold on late and therefore keep breathing the thin playoff air that ran out for the Leafs a few days ago.
Perhaps it would have been too much of an April Fool's gag to expect Raycroft, who sat for two months while Vesa Toskala got every mount, to suddenly show up, stone the Sabres and knock them out of the playoffs.
That's the way it looked most of the evening, though, Raycroft quite sharp until the Sabres tied it fairly late ' where have we heard this before? ' and then won it 4-3 on the sixth shootout round.
"Usually in a shootout, when you lose you say it's good shooters and they got me tonight. But this was for the season,'' said Miller, who wasn't great but made some timely saves when the loose Leafs threatened late.
"We want to put pressure on teams to perform and see if we can sneak in there.''
It's still an uphill swim for the Sabres, but just imagine if the tables had been turned here, if it were the Leafs with their heels on the edge of the playoff cliff, fighting back twice in the third period to tie the game, then going to a sixth shooter to pull it out. Rhapsodies would be written and somebody would record a CD.
Anything less than three victories in their remaining three games, including this one, mean elimination for the Sabres and doubtless a new parlour game in Buffalo: Blaming ownership and upper management for letting a team that won the Presidents' Trophy a year ago fall out of the playoffs, down there with the Torontos and Tampas and other sluggos.
It's a game still likely to be played in the Queen City.
Raycroft, to get back to him, certainly deserved one last opportunity to play for this team this season, given that he said all the right things and behaved correctly during his banishment. Not all goalies do so when the coach calls another number, as Senators fans could attest.
And, speaking of the Senators, the way they're falling apart, the richest guy in the Valley next week might be the local psychologist.
Obviously, this season wasn't easy on Raycroft, going from 37 victories the year previously to the brunt of the customers' disdain for another season steered on to the rocks in the Richard Peddie/Larry Tanenbaum Era.
"You forget how much fun it is to get out there and compete,'' said Raycroft, who stopped 38 of the 41 shots he faced in the 65 minutes.
"It's also nice to get out there and realize I'm an NHL player again. It's hard to do that on a daily basis when ... you know ... keep your focus and your mindset positive.
"I'm kind of where I always wanted to be and always dreamt to be, but I feel kind of left out and isolated and it's nice to get out there and feel a part of it.''
It was a decent performance for Raycroft, all round. It won't make the team's highlight film this year.
Then again, not much will.