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425 Dorchester Road
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3
Beds
per county records
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2.5
Baths
per county records
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2,420 sq ft
Home Size
per county records
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2,795 sq ft
Home size
per paid vendor
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7,442 sq ft
Lot Size
per county records
Overview
With roots dating back to 1938 in prestigious San Mateo Park, this 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home offers classic and timeless appeal, complemented by thoughtful updates and a refreshed aesthetic. Newly painted inside and out, the home features refinished hardwood floors, crown moldings throughout, and updated lighting, creating an inviting atmosphere that is ready for immediate enjoyment while also providing an excellent opportunity for further customization.
The formal living and dining rooms exude elegance with their tray ceilings and a focal-point fireplace in the living room. Flowing seamlessly from the living room is an inviting den or family room, which opens to the perfect work-from-home space, a sunny office complete with a gas fireplace, and a wall of glass that connects to the very private rear yard. The office also leads to a casual dining area in the spacious updated kitchen equipped with high-end appliances and granite countertops.
The home’s three bedrooms are thoughtfully arranged upstairs, including a primary suite and one bedroom with direct access to the dual-entry hallway bath. Additional amenities include a concealed upstairs laundry, a guest powder room, an attached 2-car garage, and a partial basement for storage.
Outdoors, the wonderfully private rear yard is a gardener’s delight, featuring terraced gardens, roses, sitting areas, and a convenient workshop/shed. Topping it all off is a location in the sought-after San Mateo Park neighborhood that is equally convenient to the fabulous downtown amenities of San Mateo and Burlingame.
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Built in
1938
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Listed
8 hours ago
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Neighborhood
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Schools
San Mateo Park Elementary, Borel Elementary, San Mateo High School (buyer to verify)
Amenities
Classic and timeless in prestigious San Mateo Park with roots dating back to 1938
Freshly painted inside and out, new lighting, refinished hardwood floors, crown moldings throughout, and refreshed landscaping
3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths on two levels
Approximately 2,420 square feet of living space (per county records)
Manicure gardens, lawn, and privacy hedges introduce the home where a brick walkway leads to covered entrance outlined with fluted moldings
Front door with inset glass panes opens to a traditional foyer with crown moldings and overhead lighting
Formal living room features a tray ceiling with recessed lighting outlined with layers of crown moldings; a fireplace has fluted detail on the traditional mantelpiece, which extends to the ceiling
A wide opening in the living room enters a den or family room with carpet, entire wall of cabinetry, and wall of windows and sliding glass doors to the office
Formal dining room has paneled walls, a tray ceiling with recessed lights and chandelier, and a bay window; an adjoining butler’s area has granite-topped cabinetry and a wall of pantry storage
Kitchen features off-white cabinetry topped in granite with tiled backsplashes and a mosaic alabaster feature strip; a leaded glass door opens to the private rear yard
Appliances include Wolf gas range with 4 burners and griddle, Miele microwave and dishwasher, and Sub-Zero refrigerator
A casual dining area in the kitchen, with pendant light, has sliding glass doors to an optimal home office with two operable skylights, elevated gas-log fireplace, carpet, and wall of double sliding glass doors opening to the wonderfully private rear yard
Upstairs primary bedroom suite has an organized closet and en suite tiled bath with single-sink vanity and tub with overhead shower and partial glass enclosure
Two additional bedrooms, one with built-in cabinetry, vaulted skylit ceiling, and direct access to the dual-entry bath with dual-sink vanity and glass-enclosed shower with glass block window
Other features: powder room; concealed laundry with stacked LG washer/dryer in upstairs bathroom; attached 2-car garage; central air conditioning; security alarm; leaded glass window in the stairwell with new wool carpet runner; partial basement for storage
Spacious and very private rear yard with terraced gardens, roses, sitting areas, and garden workshop/shed
Access a private recreational tennis and pickleball court, jointly owned by 18 homeowners (details in preliminary title report; buyers encouraged to verify). Centrally located and bordered by Poplar Avenue, Costa Rica Avenue, W. Bellevue Avenue, and Dorchester Street, the court is maintained by a dedicated homeowner association.
San Mateo Park neighborhood less than one mile to downtown Burlingame and less than two miles to downtown San Mateo
San Mateo schools: San Mateo Park Elementary, Borel Middle, and San Mateo High (buyer to verify)
San Mateo
San Mateo Park
Instead of a gridded street pattern, San Mateo Park has 69 landscaped traffic circles. Rather than four way intersections, it is one of the few places with islands that were originally developed to easily route horse-drawn carriages around corners without fear of collision, and these islands have become a favorite part of San Mateo Park’s fabled allure. Homes are set back from the street on generous sized lots ranging from 6,000 to easily over 10,000 square feet, often hidden by the dense greenery of native oak and redwood trees, elms, maples and poplars, palms, cedars and olive trees planted under the supervision of famed landscape architect John McLaren, designer of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, before the first San Mateo Park home broke ground. San Mateo Park is quiet, graceful and luxurious. Many home buyers actually prefer it to its more well-known neighbor, Hillsborough.
Convenience is an added perk for San Mateo Park residents. Shopping and dining on Burlingame Avenue is less than one mile away, making it within general walking distance. El Camino Real, the eastern border of San Mateo Park, offers easy access to freeways and surface commute routes. Burlingame’s Caltrain station can be reached by foot in 20 minutes.
San Mateo Park real estate is comparable to anything found in the Peninsula’s high-end neighborhoods, sprawling two-story residences built in the1910s, 1920s and 1930s (with a few post-war houses and new construction mixed in among an inventory of Tudors, Colonials, Craftsmans and Mediterraneans) of impressive size and stature. San Mateo Park homes can have up to 4,000 square feet of living space, five bedrooms, quarter-acre lots (the neighborhood does not share Hillsborough’s half-acre minimum lot size requirement), swimming pools and lavishly landscaped yards. Since so many are closing in on 100 years of age, six-figure remodels are not uncommon. There’s quite a mix of classic architectural styles including Tudor, Craftsman, Colonial, and Spanish, many of which were built in the 1920s and 1930s.
San Mateo Park homes for sale have begun infringing on the rarified air of adjacentHillsborough. Of the most recent 10 single-family homes to sell in San Mateo Park, seven sold for more than $3 million, four for more than $4 million and three for $5 million-plus. Smaller properties – those around 2,000 square feet – can sometimes be had for as “little” as $2.5 million, but current sales point to a neighborhood median of $3.5 million, further blurring the line between this leafy San Mateo district and its famed neighbor.
To view a detailed google map of the San Mateo Park neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 439.
Favorable
The most prestigious neighborhood in San Mateo, along with Baywood
Has a rich and historic feel, with elegant, wooded traffic roundabouts originally create for horses
Diverse styles of homes with a mix of classical architectural styles, including Tudor, Craftsman, Colonial and Spanish
For the price, offers excellent value -- 10-20% more square footage and lot size than Burlingame for the same price
Adverse
Slightly older homes, closing in on 100 years of age. However, many homes have been remodeled
The elementary school is not as top rated for the price as nearby Burlingame or Baywood in San Mateo, so many buyers at these prices may elect to send their children to private school
San Mateo has it all: a diversity of neighborhoods, great parks, easy access, a plethora of shopping, and home to many businesses and an anchor for employment on the peninsula. With a rich heritage, dating back to the turn of the century with its most famous resident being A.P. Giannini, the founder of the Bank of Italy and later Bank of America, San Mateo offers a delightful spread of activity for all. The downtown area is studded with delicious restaurants and a variety of retail stores, and also boasts a 12 screen movie theatre and one of the largest wine cellars in the country, at Draeger’s Grocery Store. Shopping abounds at Hillsdale and Bridgepointe as well as the many neighborhood shopping centers.
Perhaps the most well known natural area is Coyote Point, a rock outcropped peninsula that juts into San Francisco Bay and home to a natural history museum, the Peninsula Humane Society, windsurfing, a private marina, and large picnic areas with uplifting vistas. Within walking distance of downtown, Central Park has something for everyone: ride the toy train, pick up a game of tennis, take a serene walk through the Japanese Garden, have a picnic while listening to Thursday evening’s Jazz in the Park, or enjoy the playgrounds.
San Mateo attracts a variety of homeowners, from those seeking their first home in the upcoming neighborhoods of the Village, Parkside, or Shoreview, to those looking for more a little more space in Hillsdale or the Meadows, to larger families seeking the spaciousness offered by San Mateo Park, Baywood, and Aragon.
- Small town feel
- Big-city downtown amenities with a small town residential neighborhood feel
- Diverse housing
- Very diverse housing opportunities ranging from downtown condos to suburban ranches and secluded San Mateo Park mansions
- Top schools
- Baywood schools ranked among the state’s best
Early San Mateo was a place of large estates and boldface names familiar to anyone who’s driven the town’s streets. Parrott, Hayward, Borel—these were the wealthy pioneers who sowed the seeds that eventually grew into today’s modern city of 100,000 residents. San Mateo was borne from their needs and later from their subdivided land, all around a stagecoach stop established in 1849 by Nicolas de Peyster on former Ohlone tribal land.
Note from seller
Dear prospective home buyer,
425 Dorchester Road was a dream home for our family for over 52 years and we’re so pleased you are considering it. In 1972, our young family moved from Santa Barbara to build our lives in San Mateo Park. Countless games of catch, piano lessons, and batches of cookies followed. We had neighborhood go-cart races and family tennis games on the block’s shared court. We snuggled up for movies and celebrated the holidays year after year with lights adorning the house. When we were kids, every Sunday night our parents asked us to do “Sunday Night Stories” in the dining room at 6 PM sharp. It basically meant Wendy and I would frantically grab the Encyclopedia Britannica at 5:30 and hurriedly summarize a paragraph on sharks or the Civil War or something. I see now that those annoying “stories” forged a lifelong love of learning and propelled Wendy and me to our collegiate and professional careers. We’d ride our bikes to downtown Burlingame, to San Mateo High School, and to our friends’ houses all over the “Park” as we called it. Our neighbors the Whitakers were like a second family and we remain close with many of the wonderful families on our block. The backyard at one time housed two large aviaries filled with over 150 birds of all sizes, colors, and yes, temperaments! The backyard has always been a place of peace and seclusion and our father took immense pride in maintaining its meandering paths and lush greenery.
And so, it is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to 425 — but with the warm appreciative feeling that a new family will move in and enjoy its peaceful yet connected neighborhood, its perfect location, and the laughter contained within its walls. If you do end up here, may your family find as much joy and love as we did.
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