Video highlights of this fine property

The video showcases the finest features of this exceptional home. The property is range-priced from $925,000 to $975,000.

3-D tour and floor plan

Use the following links to take a virtual walk through of the home via an innovative 3-D tour and also explore its interactive floor plan. (Or, click/tap on the images below!)

The floor plan has a very useful “furniture placement” function that allows you to size and place into the plan pieces of furniture. Great for planning how each room will work with your current (and future) furniture items!

Interconnecting neighborhoods a big lifestyle boost

The Franklin Chase subdivision’s streets and sidewalks connect with those of two adjoining neighborhoods of quality homes in Franklin, MA. This road and sidewalk access between these three substantial neighborhoods comes in very handy for joggers, bike riders and walkers. It’s definitely a huge hit with the kids during Halloween trick or treating!

Prime location nears schools, shopping, recreation

8 Dover Circle’s location is within an easy drive to a plethora of shopping and service venues, including grocery and drug stores, medical offices, restaurants and eateries, and coffee shops.

A Super Shop and Stop as well as Exit 43 on I-495 are only 3.5 miles distant from the home. From 8 Dover Circle, it’s a short 4.2 mile drive to BJ’s Wholesale and just 4.4 miles to the Forge Park Commuter Rail station which provides service to South Station in Boston.

People with children will love that well-regarded Franklin public schools, from pre-K to secondary, are all situated a short distance from 8 Dover Circle. Franklin’s Helen Keller Elementary School and Annie Sullivan Middle School are both less than 2 miles away. Franklin High School is located just 4 miles from the home. This a truly a lifestyle-enhancing location!

Grand entry

The impressive two-story front entry makes a wonderful first impression. It’s enhanced by fresh paint and an elegant turned staircase.

Just off the front entry is a 13 ft X 12 ft home office/den.

Expansive kitchen opens to two-story family room

The center-island kitchen opens to a vaulted and skylit casual dining area, creating a convenient and relaxed setting for meals and informal entertaining.

Move out to your secluded mahogany deck to enjoy al fresco dining in complete privacy while you enjoy pretty views of the distant horizon.

Back inside, the kitchen and dining area open onto the adjacent vaulted family room boasting a gas fireplace and skylights.

This unified space is sunny and bright. It’s where your family can share time together while engaging in everyday activities such as meal preparation, watching video or a sports event on TV, or getting homework done. A convenient 2nd staircase offers direct access to the bedrooms on the second floor.

Entertainment-sized living and dining rooms

The substantial front-to-back living and dining rooms will enhance your more formal entertaining events.

This open-concept space is a grand 34 ft deep and is graced by decorative architectural columns and a walk-out bay window.

Primary bedroom suite

The primary bedroom suite features a windowed sitting area, room-sized walk-in closet and a spa-like ensuite with tile shower and whirlpool tub. There’s even a second vanity with dressing table!

Three sizable secondary bedrooms and an attractive guest bath complete the 2nd floor.

Finished area in walk-out basement

There’s the added bonus of additional finished space in the walk-out lower level. Great for entertaining or for a home gym or private office!

For more information or to schedule a showing

If you have questions about 8 Dover Circle or would like to set an appointment to get inside the home, use the form below to contact us!

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Tracks were first laid in 1849, creating a line connecting Blackstone, MA to Boston via Franklin.  Trains were operated on the line by quite a number of different rail companies in the 1800s due to a variety of mergers, takeovers and re-organizations.  At the start of the 20^th Century, the Midland Division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad assumed operations.  Both passenger and freight traffic was carried on the line.  Dairy farms in a wide area stretching from Connecticut to Franklin supplied fresh milk to Boston via daily milk-train run on the line. 

The economic need for the rail line began to wane in the 1950s. Interstate highways enabled trucks and passenger cars to take increasing traffic away from the railroads.  By the 1970s, the Midland Division had ceased operations.  The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management took ownership of the rail right of way in 1984.

Healthy Heart Trail

The roadbed now is a multi-use recreation trail open to bicycles and other non-motorized uses including horse riding.

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The late Ernest DelCarte bequeathed the land that would become the conservation area to the Town of Franklin. The DelCarte family assisted in the transfer to Franklin in return for the town’s commitment to preserve the land as open space. Worth an estimated $3 million at the time of the transfer of title to Franklin, the DelCarte Conservation Area received a multi-million-dollar upgrade in 2014.

Pleasant walks

The DelCarte Area has easy trails that pass by a series of man-made ponds created by dams that restrain the Mill River.  Families with young children enjoy exploring along the paths.

Beautiful water views

There are many pretty views of water, marsh and wildlife as the trails wind past the ponds.

Trail map

You can access a trail map of the DelCarte Area here or in the image below.

There is good fishing in the ponds. There is a ramp for boating and two areas for the launching of canoes..

Videos of DelCarte

The video gallery below shows just how beautiful the DeCarte area is!

Guide to DelCarte

You can download an informative guide to the DeCarte Conservation area here or in the image above. The Guide includes information about the wildlife you can see there.

History

The area comprising DelCarte reportedly once supported cranberry bogs.  When Mr DelCarte bought the land in the 1940s, he ran a variety of business ventures from the property, ranging from a fish farm to a recreational fishing area with rental boats and fishing gear.

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The Town Forest should not be confused with the Franklin State Forest also located in Franklin, MA.  They are separate woodland recreational resources.

Trail map

Download a map of the walking trails in the Franklin Town Forest here or by following the hotlink in the image below.

Pleasant walks on easy, level trails

Several rails traverse the Franklin Town Forest.  Typical walks take from 20-40 minutes. You’ll move through pines, cedars, and swamp maples. Beware that this forest borders on the golf course owned by the Franklin Country Club and you can inadvertently end up walking onto that property.  You’ll also walk at times along the boundary lines of private land with homes, so show consideration and common sense as you walk.

How to access the trails

There are two access points to the Town Forest in Franklin, MA, neither of which is clearly marked as such as.

The easiest is at the cul-de-sac at the end of Russet Hill Road in Franklin, MA.

The designated parking area shown on the trail map is on Summer Street, about one-half mile from the intersection with King Street in Franklin, MA. (For GPS, the access point is approximately opposite 403 Summer Street.)

Circa 2008, this area was more cleared than what is shown above via Google StreetView. There was a broader shoulder to the road and the trailhead was more visible.

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This resource is a combination of land owned separately by the Metacomet Land Trust and the Town of Franklin. (As shown in the above map, there is some land in the center of this area the ownership of which is “contested”.)

Nice walks in pleasant woods

Together, these parcels form a very pleasant wooded landscape with streams and ponds. There are occasional abandoned stone walls which mark what must have been at one point in the past cleared farm and pasture land.  You’ll have the opportunity to see deer, foxes, turtles, and hawks.  If you look carefully you see evidence of beaver at the ponds. This area is a good place for parents with young children to “go exploring”.

Access to the recreation/conservation area

Access is fairly limited and no designated parking areas exist.  You can get onto the walking trails within the Franklin Woods subdivision by parking on Bridle Path at the white picket fencing.

Another access point is at the cul-de-sac at the end of Madison Avenue (off Maple Street).

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Set on over 115 acres, Dacey Fields are a lot more than just ball fields!

Walking trails

There are extensive walking trails that wind though a mix of woods and cleared area.

Disc golf course

The trails also connect to a disc golf course that extend though the woods.

Ball fields

Dacey Field has extensive soccer and baseball fields. These get a lot of use!

Playground and dog park

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The park sits on twenty-five acres of land. Its amenities includes a series of ball fields, a basketball court, a children’s playground and a baseball skills area. There is also a large concession facility. Baseball and soccer predominate but the fields have seen use by area cricket leagues.

Soccer fields

Baseball

Basketball

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