Address:1621 Bolton St., Baltimore 21217

List price: $725,000

Year built: 1920

Real estate agent: Ashley Osineme of Samson Properties

Last sold price/date: For $535,000 on April 21, 2021

Property size: Multi-family building has four apartments totaling 3,280 square feet. The four units combined have five bedrooms and four full bathrooms.

Unique features: This 104-year-old Bolton Hill address comes with a pedigree: The red brick townhouse was the childhood home of Baltimore civic leader Walter Sondheim, according to Explore Baltimore Heritage, which helps to preserve and promote the city’s historic buildings.

Sondheim is best known as the pioneering head of the Baltimore City School Board who lead the city effort to integrate schools following the landmark 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. He seems to have been fond of his boyhood home, which was among the first on the block to be electrified; he later told a Sun reporter that even as an adult, he made it a point to drive past the house upon occasion.

The home has been divided into four apartments — two on the upper level and two on the lower level. A potential fifth apartment or in-law suite could be carved out of the basement, which at the moment serves as the building’s laundry room, with a coin-operated washing machine and dryer.

Each unit has been updated with vinyl plank flooring, stainless steel appliances, recessed lighting and ceramic tile in the bathrooms.

The building has three fireplaces, an intercom system and a rooftop deck. There’s a covered, upper-level porch and a fenced, bricked-in patio.

Part of the appeal of this address is its location in the Bolton Hill historic district of Victorian-era homes, playgrounds and broad, lush medians.

The facade fits right in, with its intentionally rough-hewn exterior and decorative brickwork around the windows.