House of the week: A six-bedroom Jenkintown home for $749,900

Sophia Koropeckyj and her husband, Bohdan Pazuniak, wanted a house that hadn’t been destroyed by remodeling. They were looking for a place to live with their then 7- and 10-year-old sons. They hoped to host family gatherings and wanted a large dining room and high ceilings.

That was 27 years ago.

Now the semiretired couple — she’s an economist, he’s a geotechnical engineer — are downsizing, moving to a home they own in Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood.

The Jenkintown house has six bedrooms, 3½ baths, and measures 3,451 square feet.

Koropeckyj particularly likes the Mercer tiles on the front porch, the wood-floored basement, the tree-lined streets, and the large kitchen the couple added to the house, which was built in 1890.

The main level has the living room, dining room, kitchen, a library with built-in bookshelves, a fireplace, laundry facilities, and a powder room.

The second floor has four bedrooms, a dressing room, and a sunroom.

The third floor has two additional bedrooms, with a full bath.

All bedrooms have deep closets and additional storage space.

There is a large deck and generously sized yard.

The basement has wood floors and an additional room that could be converted to an office.

There is a paved driveway with a two-car garage, and the house is close to a SEPTA Regional Rail station with its access to Center City and the airport, highly rated schools, and a wide array of restaurants and boutique shops.

The house is listed by Roman Shevchouk of Noble Realty Group for $749,900.