Zillo features touts home in Passaic
By: Maddle McGay
NorthJersey.com
USA Today Network - New Jersey
..... It may look like just another modern home on the outside, but inside, its three stories are full of original wood trim, dazzling stained-glass windows and sturdy, authentic fireplace mantels.
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Originally listed for sale in early June [2025] by Pete Kopec of the Kopec Team at Keller Williams Prosperity for $1.75 million and dropped to just under $1.5 million, and now officially under contract, the Victorian-style home at 119 High Street in Passaic has been well preserved.
..... Built in 1925, it's just one of many architecturally-rich properties in the city's historicist Passaic Park neighborhood.
..... This Passaic County property was recently featured on Zillow Gone Wild, an Instagram page dedicated to highlighting the nation's most quirky and awe-inspiring home listings, for having a case of "BW" - also known as beautiful wood.
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"It's a beautiful house with a lot of potential, but it definitely needs some TLC," Kopec said. "for a home like this you need someone who can come in and appreciate the old world style while still bringing it up to today's [02/2026] living. It takes a special eye."
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This spacious nine-bedroom, six-bathroom home offers more than 5,600 square feet of living space on a 0.28-acre lot. It features multiple sizable entertaining spaces, a large eat-in kitchen, a finish basement with a summer kitchen a wraparound porch and a detached three-car garage.
..... It's surrounded by other historic, turn-of-the-century homes in a quiet residential community. It's just minutes away from public green spaces, including Third Ward Park,as well as local shopping and restaurants.
..... When marketing a home like this, Kopec said he likes to show both the home in its current state and the potential for what it can become. They did this thorough virtual staging and by highlighting how someone could use the home's space.
..... Plus, he said it was also important to honor the legacy of this home's previous owners. he was referred by another client, whose grandmother had owned it for years, and it housed multiple generators of the family before it hit the market.
..... "It's really not just about selling a house, especially in this case, but it's about taking their legacy,helping them present it in the market in a really good light and helping that next person find it," he said.