South End townhouse can be a duplex/triplex or a single-family

The 3,899-square-foot, 11-room Victorian at 159 West Canton Street in the go-go South End is on sale through Coldwell Banker for $4.85 million.

It comes with a bit of a twist. The renovated property dating from the early 1880s is currently configured as a triplex and a duplex, but the listing assures us that it could be easily converted back to its original single-family usage.

That usage would include five bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms.

Keep 159 West Canton divided, and it would pencil out to a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom triplex and a two-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex.

Have a look around. What would you do?

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