If Thomas Mahoney had his druthers, he would send out an announcement requesting the following: “Please avoid referring to my home as a just a Victorian.”

Even his real estate agent, Kathy Gray, of Coldwell Banker, is guilty of attaching the wrong label to his digs. She describes it on real estate forms as a Victorian built in 1920.

Mahoney’s home, known as the Kenyon-Hunt-Henry-House, at 52 Mawney St., dates to the 1870s, and supplies a noteworthy example of a Second Empire built during the Victorian era. Located in the Hill section of East Greenwich and surrounded by historic dwellings, the exterior of this house is true to its style.

It boasts a mansard roof, brackets under the second-floor eaves, pediments above the second-floor windows, additional brackets over a bay window in the front of the house and a double-door as the front entrance. The overhang over the front door has a copper roof.

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This house, which sits on about a one-third acre with an unattached two-story, two-car garage, has two bedrooms on the ground floor, four bedrooms on the second floor and some 3,200-square feet of living space. Owners Thomas and Julie Mahoney, who want to move to a different style of house, are selling it for $749,900.

The Mahoneys’ residence has a roomy side porch with three columns recently added by Thomas Mahoney. The side porch’s door leads into a brand new kitchen with counters covered with granite, white appliances, an island with four chairs and a large stainless steel sink. There are lots of cabinets.

Julie Mahoney says that where the kitchen is was formerly used as an eating area. The room, which was used as the kitchen, still has a double sink, dishwasher and open shelves for storage. The Mahoneys have turned it into a pantry with shelves to the ceiling.

“We just finished this kitchen,” she adds. “The old kitchen now offers so much shelf space.”

According to Thomas Mahoney, “The kitchen now could easily accommodate a family, which is kosher. It has enough sinks, and the cabinet under the sink can be removed and the space was built large enough for a second dishwasher.”

Off the kitchen are a full bathroom and a mud room where the Mahoneys hang coats and store shoes. Inside the mudroom are the staircases to the second floor and cellar, where the Mahoneys keep their washer and dryer. The house has oil heat.

“This house used to be two apartments,” he notes. “This [the mudroom] was the back entrances for both the apartments.”

A publication found at a nearby historical society describes the Mahoneys’ Kenyon-Hunt-Henry House as being built between 1875 and 1885. A photo features Edith Henry and her mother, Eva, posing in front of the house.

The photo shows that the exterior of the bottom floor once had brackets under the eaves similarly to the ones on the second floor.

According to the photo’s caption, “Henry Hunt and his mother, Eliza, purchased three lots and built the large two-family Victorian house and barn [at 52 Mawney]. In 1910, it was purchased by Frank B. Henry and his sister, Edith.”

Currently, inside the home, the dining room and living room features crown moldings, plaster crowns, hardwood floors and newly restored horse-hair plaster walls. “I went through a half-mile of joint tape [repairing the cracks],” he says. “And lots of plaster to fix up the walls.”

One of two parlors on the main floor is used as a guestroom; the other is a den/playroom. All of the first floor has 10-foot-high ceilings and large windows.

The second floor has four bedrooms, two new full baths and a big open area, which was formerly used as a living room from when the second floor was an apartment. Inside the master suite is a small room, which the Mahoneys use as a closet. It was formerly a kitchen, and still has a sink and counters made of formica.

“This house is so sunny,” Thomas Mahoney says. “Each room has, at least, two but usually three windows.”

The Second Empire home, at 52 Mawney St., East Greenwich, has 3,200 square feet of living space, six bedrooms and oil heat. It is for sale for $749,900. The taxes are $6,901. Kathy Gray, of Coldwell Banker, (401) 884-8050, ext. 143 has the listing. How to submit a House of the Week

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