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Best properties on the market

This week: Stucco homes

1 p Newport, R.I. Built in 1898, this fourbedroom Italianate villa features a classic Palladian layout, with a formal central stairway in the front hallway. Other interior features include Calacatta Oro marble floors, Louis XV marble mantels, a solarium, and Tuscan columns. The gated grounds include formal gardens, a pool, and a pink pebble driveway. $4,600,000. Jose Aguon, Gustave White Sothebys International Realty, (401) 849-3000

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2 p Key Largo, Fla. This four-bedroom home is set on the bay

side of Key Largo and features a roof deck, an elevator, open and screened-in patios, and a dock with two boat lifts. Interior details include tray ceilings and a chefs kitchen with tumbled-marble counters. $2,299,000. Joy Martin, American Caribbean Real Estate/Christies International Real Estate, (305) 394-7866
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3 p Boise, Idaho On the market for the first time, this fivebedroom 1923 home was designed by Kirtland Kelsey Cutter, who created the Idaho Building for the 1893 Worlds Fair. The house features a sunroom and geothermal heating throughout. A stucco privacy fence encloses the homes courtyard and geothermal pool. $2,200,000. Nina Cadwell, Group One, (208) 859-8750

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4 p Bronxville, N.Y. This home recently underwent a dramatic transformation from a mid-20th-century single-story home to five-bedroom Mediterranean-style villa. The house features marble and walnut floors, a 25-foot foyer with a sweeping walnut staircase, a first-floor master suite that overlooks the pool and terrace, a limestone living room fireplace, and a library with built-in bookshelves. $3,975,000. Sheila Stoltz, Houlihan Lawrence, (914) 310-6220 6 p Oakland The living space of this newly completed five-

bedroom home is arranged around a central stucco-and-stone courtyard. The house features high ceilings, a master suite with a deck, an open kitchen with glass cabinets, and a media room with space for a 12-foot screen. $1,400,000. Karen Nelsen, Alain Pinel Realtors, (510) 912-8681

Steal of the week

5 p St. Louis Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, this 1911 home was designed by Louis LaBeaume, architect of St. Louiss old Kiel Opera House. The seven-bedroom residence features carved paneling, limestone fireplaces, hand-troweled plaster ceiling reliefs, and tigeroak ceiling beams. $4,000,000. Maria Elias, Coldwell Banker Gundaker, (314) 993-8000

7 El Prado, N.M. This adobe-style two-bedroom home was created by applying stucco over Rastra block and standard framing, both inside and out. The house has exposed-beam ceilings, a fireplace, and arched doorways. It sits on a one-acre lot near the Taos airport and Santa Fe National Forest. $289,000. Lisa Cancro, Taos Properties, (575) 758-9500
THE WEEK April 13, 2012