4010 N 15th St, Tacoma
Sold $570,000
2 Beds + 3 Bonus Rooms
1.75 Baths
1,530 Sq Ft
5,160 Sq Ft Lot
When people describe what they’re looking for in a home these days, we often hear about good outdoor space, extra room for an office or creative work, and the desire to be near shops, cafés, parks, and groceries. For those in search of just such a home, we have good news. Half a mile from the University of Puget Sound and the markets of Proctor stands a home with a fenced back yard, plenty of work-from-home space, off-street parking and room for a garage. Oak hardwoods cover the main floor living area with two bedrooms and a bath down the hall. The bathrooms feature updated fixtures and the kitchen was equipped with all new appliances in 2020 along with custom cabinets from Heritage Homecraft.
The finished basement extends the living space with its three bonus rooms and ¾ bath with laundry. Beyond offering just rooms for working, the home is equipped for CenturyLink fiber (synchronous gigabit—1,000 Mbps download/upload) and the lower level rooms are wired for Ethernet.
Young maples border the front lawn while a stone patio, raised beds, garden shed, raspberries, perfect pergola-covered hot tub or bbq spot, and a newly poured parking pad complete the back. Other updates include the sump pump and a 2018 roof and water heater. Make home on this calm and quiet North Tacoma block where the bustle of a farmers’ market, campus life and cafés are near neighbors; the best of both worlds.
Speaking of those worlds, to give you just a small taste of the location, let’s introduce you to some of the homeowners’ favorite walks straight from the front door. They loved heading east to wend their way through the scenic University of Puget Sound campus toward Lander for coffee, or heading north to Metropolitan Market to pick-up groceries. They walked to Top Pot for coffee and doughnuts so regularly the friendly staff knew their order. Walks along the Mason Path—a paved trail in the wide Mason St. meridian extending from Jefferson Park to N. 27th—have been another way they’ve loved to get outdoors. We have a much more extensive introduction to this North Tacoma location farther along, so make sure to read beyond the house tour to begin making friends with the area.
Continue on for the video tour, photos, details, and our list of 20 local favorite destinations and services nearby.
Main Floor
Living Room
Dining Area
Kitchen
2 Bedrooms
Full Bath
Finished Basement
2 Bonus Rooms
Office - Work from Home Space
3/4 Bath + Laundry
Wired for Ethernet
Grounds
Fully Fenced Back Yard
Garden Shed
Off Street Parking
Stone Patio
Raised Organic Garden Beds
Lawn and Landscaping
Paved Alley
Curbed Street with Sidewalks & Planting Strip
Living Room
Take the paved path from N. 15th St. across the tidy front lawn, then consider yourself welcome to step inside and explore. Notice first the oak hardwood floors underfoot. Refinished in 2018, these floors bring a sense of warmth and quality to the living room. Other details to notice are the tray ceiling, and the north-facing picture window. This large front window along with two east-facing windows provide good natural light.
Dining Area
An arched opening leads to a dining area where the hardwoods and tray ceiling detail continue. A front window and overhead light brighten this area that opens into the kitchen and hall.
Kitchen
The kitchen is equipped with appliances all new in 2020 including a retro-style refrigerator. Custom kitchen cabinets by Heritage Homecraft are also part of the 2020 kitchen renovation. Notice the classic white tile backsplash and large sink with a neighborhood view from the corner windows. Pass through the kitchen to reach the stairs to the finished basement, or to take the side door out to the fenced yard.
2 Main Floor Bedrooms
The whole finished basement is waiting below, but first complete the main floor tour with a visit down the hall to the two bedrooms and full bath. This first bedroom is situated in the back southeast corner of the home overlooking the back yard. Just across the hall in the southwest corner, you’ll find the second main floor bedroom. Each room is finished with oak floors, two windows, and a closet. With three more rooms downstairs, there’s flexibility in how to use each space. Use two rooms as bedrooms and still have an office, a playroom, and a studio space.
Full Bath
Find the full bath conveniently located between the main floor bedrooms. This full bath is updated with new flooring in 2020 and new toilets, sinks, and faucets in 2019. The wall mount sink is a nice vintage style touch. Privacy glass in the window, built-in shelving, and a tiled shower/bath complete the room. A closet in the hall offers additional space for linens and other items.
Finished Basement: Office + 2 Bonus Rooms
Take the stairs down from the kitchen to reach the basement, comfortably finished with soft carpet and plenty of recessed overhead lighting to keep each room bright. Take a look at this room in the front northeast corner of the home. Along with a wall closet, this room offers an added closet system with space for hanging clothes, as well as drawers, and a convenient built-in hamper too. The bathroom is just outside the door, so this is a convenient place to work, create, exercise, or play.
A second basement bonus room is located immediately on your right as you come down the stairs. This is another carpeted room, well lit with recessed fixtures, this time with windows to the south and west.
This third basement room makes for an excellent office or hobby space. If you plan to set up a home office, don’t forget that the house is equipped for CenturyLink fiber (synchronous gigabit—1,000 Mbps download/upload) and these lower level rooms are wired for Ethernet. Notice also the electrical panel and water shut-off valve in the closet area of this room as well as numerous outlets.
You’ll find another closet just outside this office space at the foot of the stairs, and don’t forget there’s a door out to the fenced yard from the top landing.
Laundry & 3/4 Bath
A spacious 3/4 bath and laundry area complete the suite of rooms in the finished basement. As in the full bath above, the sink, faucet and toilet were all new in 2019. Find the furnace and the 2018 water heater in the closet beside the washer and dryer. The new 2021 sump pump is under the sink. Cabinets over the laundry area provide additional storage space and a window in the south wall opens to the back yard.
Outside
This 5,160 square foot lot is level, well-maintained, and full of potential too. The front yard is bordered by a curbed street with a wide planting strip and sidewalks. Autumn Blaze maples flank the front walkway transforming from spring green to red in the fall. Open the gate on the west side of the house to reach a pergola covered area perfect for a hot tub or a bbq.
A round stone patio in back calls for lounge chairs, an outdoor dining set, and a big pitcher of iced tea. But if you’re feeling energetic and looking for purpose, the raised beds provide a place to plant, weed, tend, grow, and harvest. Organic soil and practices have been maintained, so flip through the seed catalog, or visit Garden Sphere nearby in Proctor for soil and seedlings.
They don’t look like much now, but a row of raspberries promises to provide beautiful berries in summer, and a Japanese weeping cherry will bud and burst into spring bloom in just a couple of months.
Store a mower, tools, bikes, or other supplies in the garden shed, or be inspired by the next door neighbors new garage and consider building one of your own. For now, there’s a newly poured parking pad in back and additional gravel parking space alongside the paved alleyway.
All in all, this is a yard made for enjoyment with space to rest, to work, to play, and to grow.
Location
This home is settled between Madison and Monroe in a solid residential neighborhood with architectural variety, blooming gardens, and easy access to the Proctor Business District to the north, University of Puget Sound to the east, and the 6th Ave Business District to the south. If you already know Tacoma, you're familiar with these spots and know you're in the sweet spot. If you're just getting to know our city, it's time to explore!
Image from University of Puget Sound - Just 0.4 miles from 4010 N 15th St, this is a beautiful campus to walk through (and there’s coffee on the other side at Lander!).
Living this close to the Proctor District brings the advantages of a small town to life in the city. You have everything you need within an easy distance whether you’re on wheels or on foot, so it's a favorite place to get out those tote bags and do errands while leaving the car behind. Inevitably, we mix in some fun with the to-do list; it's hard not to with cafes like Olympia Coffee Roasting, a wide range of cold drinks in the bottle-shop and bar at Peaks & Pints, ice cream galore at a variety of local treat destinations, beautiful shops like Teaching Toys & Books, Compass Rose, The Proctor Mercantile, The Pacific Northwest Shop, and Lapis. And it just makes sense to check out Megs & Mo Upscale Resale when you go by; you never know!
Image from Top Pot Doughnuts - Proctor is packed with delicious treats! Get doughnuts at Top Pot and find ice cream from Bliss at a the same location. You can also find scoops and cones, at Metropolitan Market’s gelato counter, and at the new Ice Cream Social location too. You can’t go wrong.
The combination of Metropolitan Market (where the cheese is plentiful, and the produce is always resplendent) and the Proctor Farmers’ Market makes fresh, beautiful, wholesome foods available every day of the year. The farmers’ market runs every Saturday from late March to mid December with markets on 2nd Saturdays in the winter season. So it may be time to find that little red wagon from when you were a kid and pull it down the street on Saturday mornings to fill with ripe berries, fragrant flowers, glowing honey, sweet buns, wild mushrooms, local eggs, and lots of bunches of leafy greens.
The Proctor Farmers’ Market brings people from all over Tacoma, but 4010 N 15th is lucky to be a 15 minute walk from where the farmers set up on Saturdays. Get a taste for the market on February 12 & March 12 before it gets going on a weekly basis again in the spring.
Carry your basket, roll your wagon, or tote your favorite big bag to hold all the goods from the Proctor Farmers’ Market on Saturdays, less than a mile from home!
The shops and markets we’ve mentioned so far are just the beginning of what Proctor has to offer. Go visit and you might find yourself at Chalet Bowl or settling in for a film at the Blue Mouse Theatre.
To help you get familiar with how this house fits into the wider community, we’ve calculated the distance from the doorstep of 4010 N 15th St to 20 favorite Tacoma destinations and services within 1 mile (well, two spots are actually 1.1 miles distant, but they’re places the homeowners walked to often and loved, so we think they’re close enough). Take a look at the list below!
The beloved Blue Mouse Theatre, in operation since 1923, is a great movie house experience, even on a budget. Rent it the theatre for a birthday party, or visit for the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
20 Favorite Local Destinations & Services Within 1 Mile
(Travel times here are calculated at about 3 mph - if you’re a speedy walker, riding a bike, or on a faster wheelchair or scooter you could get around even more quickly.)
Image from Toast Mi - One of the homeowners favorite takeout destinations in Proctor, Toast Mi is just over half a mile from home and offers a delicious range of banh mi sandwiches, salad bowls, milk tea, and smoothies. You might become a regular too!
Image from Olympia Coffee Roasting Co., one of 3 local roasters within a mile of 4010 N 15th St - stop in here, at Valhalla, or Lander for an espresso or pour over.
Parks, Activities & Schools
Mason Path: 0.2 miles, 4 minutes
Jefferson Elementary School: 0.3 miles, 7 minutes
University of Puget Sound: 0.4 miles, 8 minutes
Jefferson Park: 0.4 miles, 9 minutes
Blue Mouse Theatre: 0.6 miles, 14 minutes
Chalet Bowl: 0.7 miles, 14 minutes
Mason Middle School: 0.7 miles, 15 minutes
Silas High School: 0.9 miles, 18 minutes
Dining, Drinks & Treats
Olympia Coffee Roasting: 0.6 miles, 12 minutes
Toast Mi: 0.6 miles, 12 minutes
Peaks & Pints: 0.6 miles, 13 minutes
Valhalla Coffee Co.: 0.6 miles, 13 minutes
Top Pot Doughnuts with Bliss Small Batch Creamery: 0.7 miles, 15 minutes
Brewers Row: 1.1 miles, 22 minutes
Lander Coffee: 1.1 miles, 22 minutes
Groceries & Key Services
Metropolitan Market: 0.5 miles, 10 minutes
Safeway: 0.5 miles, 11 minutes
Proctor Farmers’ Market: 0.7 miles, 14 minutes
Wheelock Library: 0.7 miles, 15 minutes
United States Post Office: 0.8 miles, 16 minutes
More Information From the Listing Agent
Come see this North Tacoma home in person to get a feel for the layout, style, size, and location.
And feel free to call or text me, Michael Duggan, at (253) 226-2787. I’ll be happy to answer your questions about this property, or talk with you about Tacoma and the local real estate market in general.
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