9000 Walden Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20901

Your rejuvenating retreat from DMV urban life can be found in this center hall colonial built in 1947 in the friendly Highland View neighborhood. The corner lot feels both spacious and private, with a 50-year-old privet hedge along the sidewalk plus pockets of sun and shade. Your new home features original red oak floors throughout and six-on-six true divided-light windows. The traditional first-floor plan has a sunlit living room featuring a wood-burning fireplace and a southern-exposure bay window for your thriving houseplants. The formal dining room, with crown and chair moldings, has French doors opening onto the porch and its lush flower baskets. The adjacent kitchen is well-designed for everyday and special occasion meal preparations and also opens to the porch. From the dining room or kitchen, you enter a large screened-in porch for outdoor dining, relaxing with friends, and enjoying the beautifully landscaped sunset views. The upstairs has three comfortable bedrooms, with original oak floors, and a full bath. Pull-down stairs lead to a large unfinished attic with a floor, new windows and a 6 by 5 foot cedar-lined closet. About half the attic is buildable, maybe as a fifth bedroom or an office, and half could be under-the-eaves storage space. The ground floor is designed to blend with the upstairs or to function as a self-contained living area with private entrance, living room, small kitchen, full bathroom and the fourth bedroom. The ground floor also has a laundry/utility room. Two rear doors lead to a 700 square foot flagstone patio framed by a custom stone wall and lawn, with exterior lighting including floodlights. There’s ample space for entertaining, a firepit, backyard swing set and parking for two vehicles. The yard and surrounding neighborhood offer a park-like setting with mature oaks and maples, cherry and crabapple trees, magnolias, shrubs, and gardens planted in the 1930s when the area was first developed. Home gardener favorites include the always popular daffodils, forsythia, lilac, blueberry bushes, azaleas, rhododendron, daylilies, peonies, hydrangeas and butterfly bushes. The home has been meticulously cared for by the same owners for 30+ years. Recent updates include: complete interior and exterior painting in 2021, re-built electrical circuit board in 2020, new roof and attic insulation in 2018, and a new water heater venting to a relined chimney in 2016. Within walking distance, you’ll find the recently renovated Long Branch Public Library, Long Branch Park trails and playgrounds and the extensive recreational choices at Sligo Creek Stream Valley Park. Commuters and travelers love the neighborhood’s location a mile from downtown Silver Spring and Metrorail, plus only a block from Ride On bus service. Two stops on the Purple Line light rail are planned for a few blocks away. The house has quick access to Route 29 and Interstates 95 and 495, schools, parks, playgrounds, and shopping. It’s one hour to any of three major airports: BWI, DCA or Dulles. Within easy commuting distance, neighbors work at the US Capitol, White House, US Food and Drug Administration, University of Maryland, National Institutes of Health, Holy Cross Hospital, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and many other private and federal employers.