Incredible opportunity to experience Doylestown Boro living at it's finest. Original turn of the 19th century Victorian home includes a 2018 addition and total rehab of the home, offering the best of both worlds. The wrap around front porch with it's relaxing porch swing is just begging you to come sit and take a moment before heading inside one of the two front entrances. The first brings you into the front foyer, with pocket doors showing off an open floor plan with a living room leading to the dining area and kitchen. The second entrance brings you into a side entry foyer with a coat closet and powder room with European inspired tile. At the heart of the home, a true "Cooks Kitchen" is sure to please with a center island that seats a crew, Wolf gas stove with a pot filler faucet, double oven, Sub-Zero refrigerator, quartzite countertops and enough custom cabinetry to fit everyone's needs. The Kitchen has a spacious dining area with original built-ins for added storage and charm. It also offers a wood burning fireplace with Mercer tile framing the firebox opening as well as the hearth. A first floor Owner's Suite is located in the back of the home, and offers a spacious bedroom, good closets and an En Suite Bath with double sinks, shower, soaking tub and linen closet, all well done with quartzite and tile. Hardwood floors throughout and a washer/dryer on the main floor completes the easy living feel. Head up to the second floor and you'll find 3 Bedrooms with custom closets and plenty of windows providing lots of natural light and hardwood floors throughout as well as a full Bath with double sinks, tile and quartzite. There's also a second Kitchen, 2nd Laundry room and an additional Family Room, providing options for separate living spaces for families, or an in law or au pair suite. Check out the 3rd floor and you'll discover a finished room with charming leaded glass windows tucked under the eaves and a storage closet that runs the entire length of the room. It was used as an additional hang out area but could be a 5th bedroom, an office, workout room, artist loft. .. you decide! There's also a finished basement that offers a rec room/family room as well as a home office/student study area. An unfinished section offers great storage and a place for the mechanicals. Outdoors you'll find a paver patio for outside entertaining, a lovely green space and fenced in yard with a red brick path leading you to a 2 car detached garage with a paver entrance from the street. There's also the ability to park 3 cars in front of the garage as well as street parking in front of the home. This home offers luxury living with all the amenities of today's world while retaining the charm of Old, and what Doylestown Boro is famous for. The "Boro" offers culture with its theater and museums, restaurants, shopping, historic district, Judicial Center, library, nationally recognized Doylestown Hospital, the train station and has a walkable score of 88-90. It's also centrally located to many commuter roads taking you to Philadelphia or NYC. Award winning Central Bucks School District.
Single-familyProperty Type
1895Year Built
8,892 sq ftLot Size
$402Est. Price/Sq.Ft.
2 car garageParking
Listed by Sherri Belfus Kracht• Class-Harlan Real Estate, LLC
•215-348-8111 (broker)
•info@classharlan.com (broker)
Bought with Tamara Nicholson• BHHS Fox & Roach-Doylestown
Charming Victorian duplex in downtown Doylestown Borough, the "William Raike House" circa 1895 offers classic antique architecture and two apartments (upstairs and down). Period-perfect hardware and wood work abound in this home that's just blocks to the center of town. A wrap-around front porch offers covered seating, and the back porch overlooks the expansive back yard and frontage on to Union St. Antique wood floors throughout, large windows and high ceilings, central air (two zones), high efficiency natural gas heat (two zones) and a back up generator give you all the modern conveniences and peace of mind. Live where you work (use the main level as a home office), or live in one unit and collect passive income from the other, or even recombine the two into a single family home. Plenty of flexibility and options in this charming, historic Borough home.
BRIGHT MLS #1002622663
Aug 11, 2017
Sold
$525,919
$138/sq ft
TREND #7012366
Aug 11, 2017
Sold
$525,919
$138/sq ft
Jul 3, 2017
Pending
—
Jun 30, 2017
Listed
$515,000
$136/sq ft
TREND #7012224
Aug 11, 2017
Sold
$525,919
$138/sq ft
Jul 3, 2017
Pending
—
Jun 30, 2017
Listed
$515,000
$136/sq ft
+20
BRIGHT MLS #PABU155586
Sep 15, 2006
Sold
$475,000
$125/sq ft
Dec 5, 2005
Listing Removed
—
Nov 28, 2005
Listed
$475,000
$125/sq ft
BRIGHT MLS #PABU259422
Apr 8, 1996
Sold
$185,500
$49/sq ft
Feb 20, 1996
Listing Removed
—
Jun 1, 1995
Listed
$185,500
$49/sq ft
BRIGHT MLS #PABU317752
Dec 1, 1995
Listing Removed
—
Jun 1, 1995
Listed
$192,000
$51/sq ft
Year
Property tax
Land + Additions
Assessment*
2026
$6,605 (+5.8%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2025
$6,240 (+3.9%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2024
$6,008 (+5.0%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2023
$5,724 (+1.4%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2022
$5,644 (+1.1%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2021
$5,582 (+1.1%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2020
$5,521 (+1.1%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2019
$5,460 (+38.4%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2018
$3,946 (+12.1%)
$4,200 + $20,200
$24,400
2017
$3,520
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2015
$3,520 (+0.8%)
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2014
$3,492
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2013
$3,492 (+3.1%)
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2011
$3,387 (+1.4%)
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2010
$3,341
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
Tax history for 193 Decatur St
Year
Property tax
Land + Additions
Assessment*
2026
$6,605 (+5.8%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2025
$6,240 (+3.9%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2024
$6,008 (+5.0%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2023
$5,724 (+1.4%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2022
$5,644 (+1.1%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2021
$5,582 (+1.1%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2020
$5,521 (+1.1%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2019
$5,460 (+38.4%)
$4,200 + $29,150
$33,350
2018
$3,946 (+12.1%)
$4,200 + $20,200
$24,400
2017
$3,520
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2015
$3,520 (+0.8%)
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2014
$3,492
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2013
$3,492 (+3.1%)
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2011
$3,387 (+1.4%)
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
2010
$3,341
$4,200 + $17,800
$22,000
*Taxable value of land and structures on it ("additions") is determined regularly by local assessors and does not affect market price.
Public record
Public record
Zoning
Beds
4
Baths
2.5
Stories
2
Lot width
—
Lot depth
—
Lot size
8,892 Sq. Ft.
Year renovated
—
Sq. Ft.
3,199
Year built
1895
Style
Single Family Residential
County
Bucks County
APN
08-004-079
Parking Spaces
—
Basement
—
Accessible
—
HOA Dues
—
Garage
—
Features
—
Last updated by owner on Sep 18, 2026.
CR
Central Residential District
The purpose and intent of this district is to retain and maintain the character and density of the central residential areas where a variety of housing types are permitted, as well as to provide standards for the development of new housing sites in order to broaden the Borough's housing base and to add to the vitality of the core of the Borough, to provide reasonable standards to prevent overcrowding of land, to regulate the density of population, to avoid undue congestion in the streets, to allow for the harmonious development and to create conditions conducive to carrying out the broad purposes of this Chapter.