16 Arborough Road # 1

Here's a useful test. Ask a Roslindale resident — even a long-time one — to name the street that runs between the Peter's Hill entrance to the Arnold Arboretum and Roslindale Village. Most of them can't. Arborough Road sits on one of the most enviable patches of Roslindale geography, and somehow it remains a kind of open secret: known to the people who live on it, the people who showed it to them, and almost nobody else.

It's a leafy cul-de-sac off Conway with no through traffic, mature trees, and the kind of stayed-here-thirty-years neighborly feel that doesn't get built into new developments. At the end of the block, a rustic stone wall opens onto a mulch-and-gravel passage wide enough to bike through. On the other side is the Arnold Arboretum — Frederick Law Olmsted's 281-acre living museum of trees and shrubs, miles of paved paths, one of the best public spaces in the city. You walk to it in under a minute. Most days, you'll probably walk through it.

Now turn the other way. Roslindale Village is 0.2 miles up Conway and Arborough on foot — five or six minutes of leafy street to the commuter rail station, the Saturday farmer's market, Fornax, Delfino, Tony's Market, the brewery, Pleasant Café, Birch Street House & Garden, Sugar. The hubbub of one of Boston's great walkable village centers sits exactly five minutes from your door.

That's the trade: the cul-de-sac quiet of a street where nothing comes through, dropped dead center between an 281-acre park and a village's worth of restaurants Bostonians cross the city for. It's the kind of address that, once you know about it, you don't quite understand how you didn't already.

The unit itself is the main level of a brand-new two-unit condo conversion in a 1928 building. Approximately 1,200 sq ft, two bedrooms, one full bath — plus a flexible studio space in the basement that adds another roughly 200 sq ft with its own entrance, a full bath, and a kitchenette area. The basement space is not a legal bedroom, but for a buyer who works from home, makes things, or wants dedicated professional space outside the daily living floor, it meaningfully expands what this unit offers.

You enter through a vestibule with room for a small desk or console. From there, the main living level opens into a formal dining room anchored by an original gumwood colonnade with tapered entasis columns and glass-front shelving at the column bases. A built-in china cabinet with glass doors and shelving sits along one wall. Full wood wainscoting wraps the room. Original oak floors carry through.

The living room is well-proportioned. A sun room opens off the main living space and catches the day's best light. The kitchen is honest about its age: original white shaker cabinets in good condition, standard appliances, the layout of a home that was designed before kitchens became performance spaces. Two bedrooms sit on opposite sides of a center hallway, separated by the bath, with generous linen and storage between them. The bathroom is one of the home's quiet pleasures: pinwheel-pattern tile floor in black and white, a subway-tile back wall, and a claw foot tub. Original 1920s details, kept and used.

Out back, a private deck under tree cover sits off the rear of the main level. The yard is common to both units. Below, the flexible studio space: its own outside entrance plus interior access from the back stairs, windows, a full bath with a shower stall, and a kitchenette area with a hood vent and space for a refrigerator. Use it as a home office, a maker's studio, a music or art space, or a dedicated professional workspace.

Behind the scenes: Harvey replacement windows building-wide, all original brass plumbing replaced with PEX or copper, a full HERS-audited insulation package, gas-fired forced hot water from approximately 2008, and a 2025 superstor hot water tank. Standard electric utility. Garage bay plus exclusive-use spot behind, easy street parking on Arborough.

Offered at $669,000.

First open house Wednesday (June 17) from 4 -6 pm

Showings begin right away.  Open house dates to follow.    To book a private showing or ask questions, contact BJ Ray at 617-224-8980 or Meredith Smith at 617-800-4779.