Sold: Gordon House • Monona, WI
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Gordon Garden House
4605 Gordon Ave.
Monona, WI 53716
$280,000 Sold for $325,000
2 bedrooms | 1 bathrooms | 1,180 sq ft | Built 1950 | 0.14 acre lot | MLS# 1942944
Welcome to Gordon House - an ideal place to connect with community and create the nest of your dreams. Enjoy tending to your raised beds, chickens, berry patch and so much more.
Porch life at its finest
The owners of this home and gardens have integrated outdoor spaces to welcome friends for conversations, sharing meals, and joyful play.
Notable features:
Productive backyard oasis with a new privacy fence, compost, chicken coop, and fertile raised beds
Hardwood floors, brilliant natural light, Reverse Osmosis drinking water system, and inviting kitchen w/energy star appliances
Every room updated and painted with no VOC paint
Triple panel sliding door opens to screen porch invites the outdoors in
Walk or bike to libraries, community pool, parks, beach, coffee shops and more!
It’s all for our children
Regenerative real estate is about how we transform the way we inhabit the planet. At the core of this work is our relationship to place, people, and community.
The owners of Gordon House have truly embodied what it means to be in community while evolving the way they inhabited the planet. A couple of years ago, they went on a deep dive into how they could contribute to making the world a richer place:
“The thing that brought the regenerative spirit to this house for me is the kids. As I watched documentaries, read books, and listened to podcasts I became overwhelmed with the regenerative work that needed to be done. In order to keep my faith and process my overwhelm, I kept coming back to the children — to the next generation.”
- Owner
They dove into regenerative place and added front yard raised beds, an ample front porch facing sunrise, and tree swings to invite passers-by to sit a spell and visit. Around back, they added a private fenced yard to keep the chickens safe and rear gardens thriving. Their most loved addition — a screen porch facing west — is the spot for friends to gather and enjoy garden fresh meals, games, and sunset.
“I poured my heart and soul into creating a place where the children could learn that healthy soil has worms, that being barefoot in the grass is good for us, that chickens lay eggs we can eat, that our garden was a place where food came from, where they could experience and taste a sugar snap pea or cherry tomato for the first time, and why spraying pesticides on our lawns isn’t good for our lake water or our soil.”
Regenerative spirit
Inside, a high functioning bright kitchen, wood floors, and large open spaces hold residents in right-sized comfort.
Conscious of the materials and cleaning supplies brought into the house, the owners prioritized no-VOC paint and creating an atmosphere free of artificial scents. Seamless flow between indoors and out with ample light will support your circadian rhythms.
“I was delighted when the owners contact me to help transfer stewardship of their home. They have put so much intentional work into this home — from the interior materials design and lifestyle choices to the evolution of their yard and tending to the more-than-human-world. They have truly embodied the 5 Roots of Regenerative Real Estate here.”
- Mark Voss, listing agent
Community in action
The people in this neighborhood are what give a robust fullness to life on Gordon Avenue.
“One neighbor keeps bees and lets us join to watch the annual honey extraction. One neighbor with beautiful gardens shares plants. Another has a raspberry patch that becomes breakfast on morning walks. All of those walking their dogs by, all of those kids getting off school buses in the afternoon — we sit and share life on the porch, around the campfire, at the park, pool, or at the beach —all a simple walk away.
- Owner
The five roots of regenerative Real Estate
Health & Wellness
Large windows invite in abundant natural light to support your circadian rhythms. Also perfect for biophilic design with plants for even cleaner indoor air!
Comfortable remodeled kitchen supports fresh food prep with ease.
Fresh no VOC paint throughout
Only cleaned for last 5 years with non-toxic cleaners — a no artificial fragrance house!
Sustainability
Many updated energy star appliances. New efficient vent fan in bathroom.
Productive, edible landscape models resilience. Enjoy tending:
Raised vegetable garden beds
Existing compost
Chicken coop
Raspberry bushes and a strawberry bed
Yard has not been sprayed with any pesticides during ownership
Only organic soil and compost have been used in the beds
Community
If you’re still reading, it’s obvious this is a close-knit community with people creating sustainable and regenerative ways of being. This is such an important element to acknowledge and celebrate!
In addition to fostering great relationships, enjoy walking or biking to:
Ecology
The proximity to Lake Monona invites lake life to fly overhead. Ducks, geese and seagulls always reminds you where you are. Check out the bird sighting website for more details and how the neighborhood is making their community healthy for birds and people.
This neighborhood’s abundant parks call you outside for walks and bike rides.
Room to expand gardens and install more native and edible plantings.
Spirit
The two porches and tree swings frame the welcoming spirit of Gordon Garden House.
Sitting, just sitting, on the front porch and rear screen porch invite the human and nonhuman world in with a curious and open heart.
Bees, birds, butterflies and neighbors, sharing from the productive gardens and the laying hens round out the spirit of reciprocity here.
Land Acknowledgement
This home occupies the ancestral lands stewarded by Ho-Chunk Nation who have called this land Teejop (Day-Jope) since time began.
NEIGHBORHOOD
This home is in the heart of Monona, a walkers delight. Neighbors gather at the community pool, Dreampark, the ice cream shop and Lake Monona beaches, all just minutes away on foot. Olbrich Gardens and beer garden, Madison's Atwood neighborhood, library, cafés and restaurants are all a short bike ride north along the Lake Loop bike path.
14 min by car to Dane County Regional Airport
15 min by car or 28 mins by bike to Dane County Farmers Market
16 min by car to University of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum
Mark Voss
(608) 556-8143
mark@chooselatitude.com
chooselatitude.com
This property is advertised through the South Wisconsin MLS #1942944