ROCHESTER — This house on Plummer Circle is just a short walk away from the renowned Plummer House — and it comes with a backyard wood-burning pizza oven and a front yard bocce ball court.
“What’s really cool is nobody else has a house like this,” Realtor Adam Howell said. “It’s not cookie-cutter. It’s unique to itself.”
The over 5200-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bathroom home, located at 1118 Plummer Cir. SW, was built in 1941 for Mayo Clinic ophthalmologist H. L. Bair. The Colonial Revival-style house was designed by architect R.W. Dwyer out of Wisconsin.
“You’re kind of living in a little piece of history from that part, that era, you know?” owner Tobias Kummer, 49, said. “I think that’s pretty cool and pretty unique.”
“It’s definitely the most unique place I’ve ever lived in,” he said.
The backyard and wood-burning pizza oven is shown at the house at 1118 Plummer Cir SW.
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Kummer has lived in the house with his family since 2020. One of the features of the house that he used a lot was the pizza oven, put in by the previous owner.
“It does take a little skill to get it started,” he said about the oven. “But then pizzas are done in like 60 or like 45 seconds or something like that. It goes to 700 degrees.”
Some other features of the house are byproducts of its 1940s build date — like the saddle hooks in the basement.
“Not that I use that, but I put my skis on there,” Kummer said. “It was perfect for skis as well.”
The primary bedroom also has a dressing area attached in a separate room, meant for workers who might be on call late at night.
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Howell said it will take a special type of person to buy the house — one who appreciates older houses, especially.
The kitchen of the house at 1118 Plummer Cir Sw is shown.
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“They like the quirks that are going to come along with that,” Howell said. “It’s also gonna be somebody that understands that these homes take maintenance. There’s constant things that have to be done to them, but there’s a payoff for it.”
One of the biggest renovations Kummer had done to the house was opening up the kitchen. He tore out many of the built-ins to make more space for socializing.
Now the kitchen has space for a coffee bar, drink fridge and having multiple people in the kitchen while prepping food.
“The old kitchen wasn’t really meant for that,” Kummer said. “Now you can sit there, and when somebody’s preparing food, somebody can sit there at the counter.”
“I think it made it a lot more functional,” he added.
Another quirk of the house is its ample storage space. Kummer said that the entire time he was living there, he was still finding space to store his items.
The room Kummer said he will miss the most was his office space on the first floor, which was lined with bookcases built into the walls.
Kummer also said he will miss the tight-knit community on Plummer Lane and Circle. He said each year, the neighborhood has annual parties at the Plummer House. It is easy to meet neighbors day-to-day, too.
“When you just want to walk the dog, you can just walk the circle and then you meet people,” he said. “So I think it’s a pretty special community.”
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The bocce ball court is shown at the house at 1118 Plummer Cir SW.
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A balcony connecting to two second-floor bedrooms is shown at 1118 Plummer Cir SW.
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The office of the house at 1118 Plummer Cir Sw is shown with its built-in bookcases.
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An aerial view of the house at 1118 Plummer Cir SW is shown.
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