The master bathroom’s original pedestal sink. Also, a sitting room and a second-floor deck are part of the master bedroom, at right.

Some houses have a distinctive feature that instantly draws the eye. In the case of this Edgewood Victorian, it’s the enormous bank of bow windows that curve across the entire front of the house.

What’s behind the windows, which have louvers at the top that can be opened in warm weather? It’s a “gentlemen’s billiard room” with a marble floor and French doors setting it off from the living room. Thanks to the windows, the room is filled with light, although there are fixtures over the pool table for evening play.

Owners Greg and Jessyca Golembowski bought the house at 272 Norwood Ave. in Cranston in 2006, and said they spent a lot of time (and money) bringing the house back to its original Victorian splendor. “It took a lot of work, but I can look at it and say ‘I’ve done something. I brought it back to what it was,’ ” Greg Golembowski said.

Golembowski, who owns a plumbing company, is planning a move to Florida.

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The six-bedroom home in Cranston has high ceilings, elaborate parquet floors in almost every room, four fireplaces, and original stained-glass windows as you ascend the main stairway to the second floor.

According to Jessyca Golembowski’s research, the house was built in 1899 by Benjamin Dillon, an executive with the Davol Rubber Co. It was then sold to Henry Carpenter, a prominent Rhode Island businessman, who eventually willed it to his daughter, Elizabeth Jordan. In the 1920s it operated as a business hosting weddings, called Jordan’s Wedding House. The home was featured on an episode of Home & Garden Television’s show If Walls Could Talk, which profiles houses with interesting histories. (The Golembowskis occasionally get visitors who want to recreate photographs from their grandparents’ wedding albums.)

Entry to the house is through a wide side porch that extends the length of the left side of the home. Greg Golembowski said the porch and the adjacent portico that extends over the driveway had to be almost completely rebuilt when he bought the house. The main door has also been refinished, and is surrounded by slender panels of stained glass.

The large entry hall, painted in yellow/gold with white trim, has an elaborate parquet floor and a fireplace framed in marble with a white wooden mantelpiece. To the right is the living room, with still another fireplace. This one is flanked by white wooden cabinets with glass doors at ground level. There are windows above each cabinet.

To the left of the entryway is the formal dining room, which has yet another fireplace and original wallpaper made of embossed leather. From the dining room a hallway leads into a modern kitchen, which has granite countertops, cherry cabinets and stainless steel appliances, including a Viking stove designed for the serious chef. A door from the kitchen leads to a backyard deck that overlooks the heated, in-ground pool in the backyard.

There are two stairways leading to the upper floors, one intended for servants and the other for the owners. Naturally, it’s the owner’s stairway that has the trio of lovely stained-glass windows, surrounded by an elaborate wooden molding, at the main landing. The top of the stairway culminates in a large square hallway, with rooms radiating off it.

The master bedroom is straight ahead. One end of it is set up as a sitting area, with couch and TV. A door leads out to a second-floor deck. Off the bedroom itself is the master bath, which has a big shower with double nozzles and an original Victorian sink that the Golembowskis found sitting in the basement. On the other side of the bathroom is another small bedroom, which had probably been designed as a nursery.

Also on the second floor is an office, painted in dark green with white trim. The office boasts one more fireplace, surrounded by multicolored tiles and an elaborately carved wooden mantle. Next to the office is another bedroom, this one shared by the Golembowskis’ two young girls and painted a festive purple.

The third floor was once servants’ territory, and up here the floors are plain pine instead of the parquet in the rest of the house. A cozy room under the eaves was probably a bedroom at one time — it has a closet and plenty of built-in storage — but is now being used as a children’s playroom.

There is a guest bedroom on the third floor, an attractive, airy space, painted white with big closets and storage areas. A renovated bathroom boasts marble floors and shower area.

Behind the house, there’s a heated pool surrounded by plantings. “This is my little oasis back here,” Greg Golembowski said. There is a detached two-car garage. Tucked away to one side of the driveway is a children’s play area equipped with a wooden tree house, slide and swing set.

The house at 272 Norwood Ave. in Cranston is for sale at $699,000. It has six bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, with 5,100 square feet of living space. Real estate taxes are $7, 987. The Realtor is Gerri Schiffman of Residential Properties Ltd., (401) 553-6316, e-mail gschiffman@residentialproperties.com. There will be an open house Sunday, June 28, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.How to submit a House of the Week

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