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33 Humboldt Road Lyon Hoag, Burlingame

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Remodeled with a Design for Entertaining

With roots dating back to circa 1935, today this home welcomes you with designer style, an amazing wine cellar, and wonderful rear yard destined for outdoor entertaining. Perfectly manicured gardens, complete with eco-friendly synthetic lawn, introduce the home on an ideal street in the sought-after Lyon-Hoag neighborhood. The home has been beautifully updated and expanded with timeless, traditional appeal, including parquet and hardwood floors and classic crown moldings that add stylish elegance. All around, natural light and garden views filter in through expansive windows and glass doors.

The one-story floor plan begins with an inviting living room with fireplace plus formal dining room. A spacious family room, with pass-through opening to the remodeled kitchen, adds wonderful space for today’s style of living and easily connects to the amazing private rear yard where café lights intersect overhead for nighttime entertaining. Not to be overlooked is a tremendous temperature-controlled wine cellar in the partial basement plus your own mini vineyard in the backyard.

There are 3 spacious bedrooms, including the master suite, and the hallway bath is recently remodeled with modern designer flair. Adding to the appeal of this classic Burlingame home is its ultra-convenient location just blocks to Safeway and Starbucks and just one mile to boutique shopping and dining on famed Burlingame Avenue. Plus, commuting to San Francisco or Silicon Valley is a breeze with easy access to Highway 101 or Caltrain and San Francisco International Airport less than 10 minutes away.

Facts and Figures

Offered at $1,725,000
Sold for $1,880,000
3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms
1,670 sq. ft. home, per county records
6,050 sq. ft. lot, per county records
Built in 1935
Washington Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate, Burlingame High School (buyer to verify)
Listed on September 13th, 2018

Listed by Raziel Ungar

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Amenities

3 bedrooms, family room, and 2 bathrooms
Approximately 1,670 square feet
Meticulously landscaped front yard with eco-friendly synthetic lawn, paver stone stairs and walkway, and wisteria-covered arbor above the garage
Exterior painted in a designer palette, including window shutters and signature front door
KUNA smart security monitoring both porch and driveway
Spacious living room has parquet wood floor, crown moldings, and a glass-enclosed, gas-log fireplace outlined in brick and flanked by recessed library shelves
Parquet floors continue into the formal dining room with chandelier and crown moldings
Remodeled kitchen has custom cabinetry with an inlaid twisted-rope feature strip, all topped in granite slab; recessed lights dot the ceiling; a casual dining area has a drum light, wainscot, and full wall of custom cabinetry, including laundry area with sink and stacked Frigidaire washer and dryer
Stainless steel appliances include a Whirlpool gas range with 2 ovens, a Kitchenaid micro/hood combo, and a Bosch dishwasher, and GE refrigerator
Third bedroom/office, just off the kitchen, with center light and crown moldings
Inviting family room has track lights, hardwood floor, crown moldings, and a full wall of true divided light windows and glass door opening the rear yard; a pass-through window provides convenient access to the kitchen
Partial basement with temperature-controlled, fully customized wine cellar for approximately 800 bottles
Master bedroom suite with drum light, customized closet with mirrored doors plus dressing area with fully customized closet; en suite tiled bath has a long single-sink vanity and glass-enclosed tub with overhead shower
Second bedroom at front of the home has a lighted fan, plantation shutters, and large closet
Remodeled hallway bath tiled in porcelain and mosaics has a suspended contemporary vanity and frameless glass shower
Fabulous rear yard designed for entertaining beneath a intersecting strings of café lights; large paver stone patios, level lawn, arbor-covered deck and patio, plus mini vineyard and storage building
Lot size of approximately 6,050 square feet
One block to Victoria Park with playground, sport court, and redwood groves
Just over one-half mile to Washington Park with tennis courts and community recreation center
Just one mile to Caltrain and Burlingame Avenue for shopping and dining
Excellent Burlingame schools, including Washington Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate, and Burlingame High ranked #20 in California in 2017

About the Lyon Hoag Neighborhood

The Lyon Hoag neighborhood, located just south of Burlingables, has traditionally been one of the most affordable in Burlingame, but the market here is gaining speed. Homes here now sell for between $1.8 and $4.2 million, and the neighborhood’s 2019 median home value was $2 million. The streets in Lyon-Hoag are well manicured and a bit wider than most in Burlingame. Most of the homes are original in character and floorplan, which is a huge draw for those looking for what is still a reasonably priced starter home in Burlingame

To view a detailed google map of the Lyon Hoag neighborhood, click here

The MLS area is 462.

Favorable

One of the most affordable neighborhoods in Burlingame
Well manicured, with wider streets
Homes vary in architectural style
Walking distance to Burlingame Avenue, Washington Park, Washington Elementary School and city’s recreation center

Schools

The elementary school for the Lyon Hoag neighborhood is Washington Elementary School located on Howard Avenue. It’s within a 5-7 minute walk from anywhere in the neighborhood.

There is one public middle school, Burlingame Intermediate School, which is located in the Ray Park neighborhood. It’s a 10 minute drive to north Burlingame.

There is one public high school, Burlingame High, which is walking distance (5-10 mins) from Lyon Hoag.

History

This is Burlingame’s first subdivision, created in 1896. Prior to its use for homes, the Howard family maintained a dairy here. The Howards are the original American land grant purchasers of 6,500-acre Rancho San Mateo, and the rancho covered all of modern-day San Mateo north of San Mateo Creek (near Mills Hospital), Hillsborough and all of Burlingame south of Sanchez Creek (near present day Sanchez Avenue). A portion of the Howard property, east of the Burlingame Avenue train station, became the McLellan nursery, which grew flowers in gardens and greenhouses on “Bloomfield” Road south of Burlingame Avenue. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the McClellan nursery was harvesting 200,000 roses per month from Burlingame and shipping 7,000 cut flowers each day to San Francisco! Sales of real estate in this subdivision were slow until the 1906 earthquake sent San Franciscans scrambling south in search of shelter. In 1907, a lot in this area was offered “at $600 and up, with terms of $25 down and $10 per month installment payments.”

The subdivision takes its name from two of the first directors of the Bank of Burlingame, which helped finance the real estate purchases here. The Bank of Burlingame was located in the beautiful building that now houses Straits Restaurant at the northwest corner of Burlingame Avenue and California Drive. The Lyon-Hoag neighborhood is also known for its proximity to Burlingame Avenue, Washington Park, Burlingame High School and the city’s recreation center.

Lyon-Hoag is also home to Nini’s, Burlingame’s best kept breakfast dining secret! Many locals have been going to Nini’s for decades. However, Nini’s is technically in San Mateo.

Learn More About Lyon Hoag

Lyon-Hoag is bordered on the south by Peninsula Avenue to the south, Carolan Avenue to the west, the 101 freeway to the east, and Burlingables just to the north at Burlingame Avenue. The neighborhood is named after the two developers who subdivided the area: Lyon & Hoag.

Lyon-Hoag is also home to Nini’s, Burlingame’s best kept breakfast dining secret! Many locals have been going to Nini’s for decades. However, Nini’s is technically in San Mateo.