Golden, with its ‘Howdy Folks’ downtown, is easily metro Denver’s most out-of-the-ordinary suburb; and Re/Max Professionals agent Annie Schneider will show you an out-of-the-ordinary listing there – not on a city-sized lot like most downtown properties, but 1.75 acres – tucked behind the 10th and 11th holes of Fossil Trace Golf Club. “Itap amazingly unique to have that much land inside the city of Golden,” Schneider says, after bringing the home to market this week. “You can walk to the School of Mines, walk to downtown.”
At 2900 Illinois Street, you’ll see a 3-bedroom, 4-bath ranch that with finished basement space included delivers almost 4,800 square feet of space, plus 2-car garage and a barn-like workshop that could house another six cars, for somebody with a collection. The sellers, heading for toasty Arizona after 16 years here, made extensive improvements — he, a former Marine Corps fighter pilot with a can-do mindset; she with a list of upgrades she wanted, all now accomplished, including a larger master suite with sitting area, gas fireplace and double closets; a reading room; and a remodeled peninsula kitchen with tile floors, slab granite tops, and a custom coffered ceiling.
This site has views across to the golf course, and beyond to the basalt fortresses around South Table Mountain, shaded in summer by cottonwoods. You’ll see five outdoor living spaces linked by walking bridges over a seasonal stream; a koi pond, umbrella fountain and other water features; and that 1,200-foot shop, now a home office. The red-tile roof is actually of stone-coated steel; and there’s baseboard hot water heat, a double-sided fireplace, and both hand-troweled plaster and tongue-and-groove in the ceilings.
Schneider, who will have coffee and cookies out, has the home open from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. To reach, take Sixth Avenue/U.S. 6 west, past Colfax, another two miles to 19th Street in Golden, turn east two blocks to Illinois, then head south the best part of a mile, past the golf course.
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