A Storybook Home for your Fairytale Ending
910 Spring St
Santa Rosa
3 Bedrooms | 2 Bathrooms | 1,750 sf | 0.17± ac lot | 2nd Unit
Warm, inviting and picturesque, this special home will pull at your heart strings!
Located on one of the best streets in the prestigious McDonald district this Charming Vintage Craftsman is in excellent condition with gorgeously updated kitchen in keeping with the period architecture of the home, flexible, open floor plan. Master bedroom has large windows that overlook the enchanting garden. Exquisite details include wood moldings, wainscoting, diamond-paned windows and an old fashioned porch. Upstairs you'll see a loft which makes for an ideal office and workout area.
Carriage house serves as detached garage and workshop with a 300 sf unit above. The Gardener in you is bound to appreciate the various vignettes created by mature stunning landscaping that includes pink and white dogwoods, camellias and azaleas blooms along with a mature persimmon tree and many others. If you have always wanted a vintage home this one is certain to please.
It is presumed that in 1907, Mrs. Julia Sander was the original owner of this house, for which she paid a whopping $600! See the history of this lovely home below.
Offered at $1,400,000
SOLDL $1,305,000
The History of
910 Spring St
This home is known as part of the McDonald Addition owned by Mark Lindsey McDonald. Mr. McDonald was known as a Santa Rosa entrepreneur in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
On December 5, 1905, Mr. Alex Crane and Mr. J.N. Hooper bought a considerable amount of the McDonald Addition from Mr. McDonald.
That spring, in the March 30, 1906 edition of The Press Democrat, an article reads that Mr. Crane and Mr. Hooper were already in the process of grading to pave and sidewalk all of Spring Street which runns from Fourth Street to Saint Helena ( which is now Bryden). This began the foundation for development to come.
On June 5, 1907, Mr. Crane sold his parcel lot #246 (which is now #910) to Mr. Hooper and his wife Anna. That same year, on November 26, 1907, the Hoopers sold the home to Mrs. Julia Sander. We presume Mrs. Julia Sander to be the original owner of this house, for which she paid a whopping $600!
Neighborhood
910 Spring St is located in the prestigious McDonald District. The McDonald District near the center of Santa Rosa features tree-lined streets, stately and historic homes. It was named for civic developer Col. Mark McDonald whose McDonald Mansion remains a historic feature of the neighborhood. Dating back to 1879, the mansion recently underwent a multimillion dollar renovation. The neighborhood’s close proximity to downtown and the Town and Country shopping area makes it easy to get to shops, restaurants, health clubs, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and more. The beauty of the neighborhood captures the hearts of many.
The City of Santa Rosa:
Just 55 miles north of San Francisco, in the urban heart of wine country, you'll find Santa Rosa: a city with a cool vibe and vibrant culture ready and waiting to be explored.
The largest city in Sonoma County, as well as the county seat, Santa Rosa offers all the amenities of shopping, hospitals, banks and businesses and not far removed from the spectacular natural scenery that the Wine Country is famous for. Centrally located and surrounded by tourist destinations of Healdsburg, Kenwood, Glen Ellen, Sonoma and Sebastopol. Many residents commute to San Francisco -- a trek that has gotten easier thanks to the addition of the Smart Train, carpool lanes and road-widening initiatives. In the next decade, it plans to be a very vibrant job center with a young workforce.
City highlights:
Old Courthouse Square is the center of downtown Santa Rosa and is surrounded by numerous shops and restaurants.
Historic neighborhoods, including Railroad Square, West End, and Cherry Street District, give Santa Rosa its quintessential small-town feel. Old mansions and Victorians can still be found downtown near tree-lined McDonald Avenue, perhaps the most beautiful street in Santa Rosa.
Activities in Santa Rosa include:
Charles M. Schulz Museum, dedicated to one of the city’s most famous former residents
Redwood Empire Ice Arena ("Snoopy's Home Ice")
Safari West wildlife preserve is located northwest Santa Rosa. As of 2017, Safari West had over 1,000 animals of approximately 98 animal species.
Downtown Santa Rosa, including the central Old Courthouse Square and historic Railroad Square, is an area of shopping, restaurants, nightclubs, and theaters
Luther Burbank Home and Gardens
Sonoma County Museum
Parks: Trione-Annadel State Park, Spring Lake Regional Park, Jack London State Historic Park, Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve
Wine-tasting and vineyard tours
Russian River resort area
Sonoma Coast along the Pacific Ocean
The performing arts in Santa Rosa are represented by the Sonoma County Philharmonic, the Summer Repertory Theatre, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and the 6th Street Playhouse. Santa Rosa is the home of the North Bay Theater Group, an alliance of some 40 theater companies, theater departments and individual performance companies from five North Bay counties
Due to its population, much of Santa Rosa's remaining undisturbed area is on its urban fringe. However, the principal wildlife corridors of Santa Rosa Creek and its tributaries flow right through the heart of the town. Great blue herons, great egrets, snowy egrets and black-crowned herons nest in the trees of the median strip on West Ninth Street as well as along Santa Rosa Creek and downtown. Deer often are spotted roaming the neighborhoods nearer the eastern hills, as deep into town as Franklin Avenue and the McDonald area; rafters of wild turkeys are relatively common in some areas; and mountain lions are occasionally observed within city limits. Raccoons and opossums are a common sight throughout the city, while foxes, and rabbits may be regularly seen in the more rural areas. In addition, the city borders and then wraps around the northern end of Trione Annadel State Park, which itself extends into the Sonoma Mountains and Sonoma Valley. Trione Annadel State Park also adjoins Spring Lake County Park and Howarth Park, forming one contiguous park system that enables visitors to venture into wild native habitats.
Santa Rosa sits at the northwestern gateway to the Sonoma and Napa Valleys of California's famed Wine Country.
Santa Rosa has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate with cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers.
