Builder's family has put new soul into a century-old Victorian

(Globe Staff Photo / Essdras M Suarez)

90 Central St., Foxborough
Price $799,900
Style Victorian
Built 1904
Square feet 4,876
Rooms 11
Bedrooms 4
Bathrooms 3.5
Sewer public

FOXBOROUGH - Inside the kitchen with its Franke sink, cherry cabinets, and pot filler above the stove is a refrigerated stainless-steel wine cooler built into the granite-topped kitchen island. But there isn't any wine in the cooler right now. Instead, it's doing duty as a kids' refrigerator, with yogurt, Gatorade, and water for their two young children.

Domenic and Pamela Lanzilo were thinking this would be an adults-only house when they purchased it in 2001, and since expanded it by grafting some 2,000 square feet of new living space onto the old soul of the century-old Victorian. But having been twice proven wrong, they are now looking for a larger piece of land than the 20,000 square-foot lot, and a road less traveled than Central Street.

Lanzilo is a builder and his family will be leaving nice stuff behind. Passing the New England farm stone fence that seals home from street, the front door is old, an oval glass dominant. A rightward turn leads to the living room with its original ceramic-faced fireplace, nine-foot ceilings, and face-nailed oak flooring that Lanzilo has burnished, but not changed.

A dining room, with built-ins, and the original flooring and breathable space follows, leading to a long hallway connecting the old soul with the new. Floors are a changing mixture of oak and Brazilian mahogany or Brazilian cherry. The 23-by-20-foot family room has a massive working fireplace and adjoins a brightly painted recreation room.

The upstairs has a full bath and two bedrooms of roughly equal size, one equipped with a walk-in cedar closet and the master bedroom suite. The fourth bedroom is in the mostly finished attic.

The master has a walk-in closet, a tiled double shower, fittings for an HDTV screen, and an expansive two-seater Jacuzzi that has all the curves of an old Corvette's cockpit.

Off the cathedral ceiling master bedroom is a large deck built to hold an eight-person Jacuzzi that is framed with privacy-granting, low-maintenance white plastic panels spaced between tall columns, giving the deck a formidable fortress-type aura.

The basement is plumbed and plugged for a man cave. Heating has six zones, plus a separate line for the Jacuzzi. If somehow the cedar-shingled home becomes too confining, Lanzilo has built a two-car garage with an upstairs ready for building. There is also a shed.

Robyn Olson and Linda Buckland-Morando of Homeowners Advantage Team/C. Walsh Realty of Foxborough are listing agents.

JOHN R. ELLEMENT