Home Care In Holliston, MA

For a buyer who is willing to dust off their imagination and put in some time, 120 Goulding Street in Holliston is a real estate opportunity of a lifetime.

The 1937 home has lived many lives, each as interesting as its modernist, Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture. The main house — the property also boasts a pair of additional structures — wouldn’t look out of place in the Hollywood Hills, with a distinctive exterior facade and an interior that blends Colonial influences, modernist touches, and those quintessential 1930s built-ins we know and love in New England.

In previous iterations, the main house and its sprawling, tree-filled 18 acres were part of a larger 500-acre property where Bernese Mountain Dogs were raised, housed a religious school, and became the home and working farm belonging to the founders of Sonesta hotels. It’s now ready for a new owner to whip it into shape and enjoy life by the serene adjoining pond, only an hour from Boston.

There’s more than 6,000 square feet to make your own here, multiple fireplaces, and windows galore to enjoy every bit of the incoming fall foliage. Buyers looking for a property where they can leave the world behind are going to be tickled at the possibilities. The two bonus structures can be turned into inviting guest houses, inspiring art studios or hobby space for tinkerers. And we can only dream of what could be done with the exterior — wildflower, vegetables, an apiary?

Although the home received multiple updates over its history, a magnificent dusty blue and salmon pink Art Deco bathroom remains and if you ask us, should be preserved as is—it’s a beauty.

On the market for $1,795,000, the sale of the property is represented by The Lara O’Rourke & Chelsea Robinson of The Lara & Chelsea Collaborative and Molly Campbell Palmer, all with Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty.

Home Showcase:

Address: 120 Goulding Street, Holliston, MA 01746

Bedrooms: 3

List Price: $1,795,000

Square feet: 6,134

Price per square foot: $293

Annual taxes: $19,008 in 2023.

Location: Secluded slice of paradise near great schools.

Built in: 1937

The Appraisal:

Pros:

Unlimited potential

Acreage!

Cons:

May want aesthetic updates

HOLLISTON - Two men were severely burned in an explosion inside a home on Westfield Drive in Holliston Monday afternoon. The loud explosion rocked the neighborhood and got Kristen Mahoney to run out of her house.

"It was scary, I was scared, and I was worried for them," said Mahoney.

She found her neighbor and an electrician burned, asking her to call 911. She stayed with them on her lawn until firefighters arrived.

"I put them on my lawn, and I knew they were going to go into shock, and I wanted to make sure they were OK so I called 911 and I know Holliston is a great town and they came right away, the ambulance and took care of them and everybody was here and the Holliston Fire Department was amazing," Mahoney said.

The fire chief says the homeowner and an electrician had been trying to troubleshoot the boiler in the basement when there was an explosion. The boiler wasn't working after the storm on Friday.

The men suffered burns on more than a third of their bodies according to the chief. They were taken to two Boston hospitals by medical helicopter.

"It's a great community to live and work in and neighbors take care of neighbors and people were helping as best as they could until first responders arrived," Holliston Fire Chief Michael Cassidy said.

The chief says the explosion damaged the basement and the first floor of the house. The family can't stay there right now.

Electrical crews shut off the power and went door to door making sure neighbors were safe.

Friends and neighbors are now coming by the home hoping the men will be OK.

"They're wonderful people, wonderful people, you couldn't have nicer people they've been here a long time," said family friend Fran Gorman.

HOLLISTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Two people were taken to the hospital by helicopter on Monday after an explosion inside a home in Holliston, police said.

Police said emergency crews responded to the home on Westfield Drive shortly before 4 p.m. after a neighbor called 911.

On scene, police said first responders determined the two people, aged 59 and 61, “needed immediate medical attention.”

One woman speaking with 7NEWS said she first heard a boom around 4 p.m. and ran outside to find her neighbor coming out of his home with a friend and asking her to call 911.

The woman, Kristen Mahoney, said she called 911 and tried to help the two men on her lawn while they waited for first responders to arrive.

“It was a very sad incident because he’s my neighbor and I didn’t want anything bad to happen to them but they were both in shock,” Mahoney said.

Speaking on scene, Holliston Fire Chief Michael Cassidy said the two men who were hurt each had burns to more than a third of their body.

“It’s awful,” one woman in the area said. “It’s tragic.”

Cassidy said there was damage in the basement as well as damage on the home’s first floor.

“There was a lot of charred paperwork and equipment that one would expect to find in a basement that had some melting from a flash fire,” he said.

The cause of the explosion remained under investigation as of Monday. Cassidy said a storm came through the area on Friday, though, causing trouble for electrical systems in some homes.

Cassidy said the homeowner and the second person were working near the home’s boiler when the explosion happened.

“I can tell that they were troubleshooting an issue with HVAC equipment in the basement,” he said. “There was an electrician and the homeowner that were in the basement at the time of the incident.”

Building and electrical inspectors, along with Eversource personnel, visited the site of this explosion on Monday.

Electricity had been turned off to the home as of around 9 p.m.

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HOLLISTON — Holliston High School has a new principal, but he's no stranger to the region.

Superintendent of Schools Susan Kustka announced via email last week that David List, currently Medway High School's assistant principal, will become Holliston High's next principal.

He starts July 1.

List has big shoes to fill, as incumbent Principal Nicole Bottomley was recently chosen for the Bertram H. Holland Award for High School Principal of the Year by the Massachusetts School Administrators' Association. Bottomley, who was Holliston High's principal for 10 years, has taken a job at King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham.

"I'm really excited to take on a new challenge," List said in an interview, "School is one big family. It's got to be a place with collaboration and a place of trust and care for staff, students and families."

According to Kustka's email, there were 14 applicants. List was chosen from among three finalists who had site visits with the school community.

Directed METCO program in Natick

List has been assistant principal at Medway High since 2015. He previously directed Natick's Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) program, which integrates students from Boston into suburban, predominantly white school districts.

List has lived in the MetroWest region for 18 years; his wife is from Framingham.

"I have enjoyed my time here," he said of Medway High. "The amount of well wishes has been overwhelming."

Kustka, in her email, shared part of List's cover letter: "Throughout my career, no matter my role, I have been driven by a set of core values. My values of respect, equity, inclusivity, responsibility and collaboration, along with the school's mission and vision, serve as a guiding principle for my decision-making and can be seen in the programs and practices I have implemented and initiated. These values are integral to the work I do and shape the way I approach my responsibilities as an educator and administrator."

List holds a bachelor's degree in Jewish history from the University of Hartford and a master of education degree from Hebrew College in Newton. He also completed an administrator licensure program from the TEC Leadership Program at Boston University.

Medway Public Schools has begun looking for a new assistant high school principal.

HOLLISTON — After 10 years at Holliston High School, Principal Nicole Bottomley will take over the same position at King Philip Regional High School this summer.

The King Philip Regional School District announced in a press release this week that Bottomley will succeed Lisa Mobley, who was recently appointed executive director of the Advanced Math and Science Academy, a charter school in Marlborough.

King Philip Regional High School is in Wrentham, serving about 1,200 students in grades 9-12 from Wrentham, Norfolk and Plainville.

“We are extremely pleased to welcome Nicole to the King Philip Regional High School, as we bid Principal Mobley a bittersweet farewell,” said Paul Zinni who is retiring this summer as superintendent of the King Philip Regional School District.

Attempts to reach Bottomley were unsuccessful.

Zinni's successor, Rich Drolet, said Bottomley is "articulate and student-centered."

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“She has a mental health background and values social-emotional learning,” Drolet said in a statement. "Numerous people who have worked with Nicole describe her as a smart high school principal who is respectful, balanced, hardworking, encouraging, collaborative and focused on elevating students’ voices. With all of that said, we are confident that she will be a great addition to our high school and district.”

Bottomley served Holliston for 13 years

Bottomley has been Holliston High School's principal for the past 10 years, and was vice principal for three years before that. She was a finalist in February for Natick High School's principal position, but that job went to Newton South interim Principal Josepha Blocker.

The following month, Holliston Public Schools began seeking applicants for a high school principal, with Superintendent of Schools Susan Kustka later confirming in a letter to the school community that the district is looking to fill the position. Bottomley's contract is up on June 30.

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Reactions regarding Bottomley's impending departure were generally negative. The president of the Holliston Federation of Teachers, Jamie Cutone, asked the School Committee during an April 6 meeting to consider offering Bottomley a successor contract.

Bottomley holds a master's degree in mental health counseling from UMass Boston and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brandeis University. Before joining Holliston Public Schools in 2010, she taught history and science at Framingham High School.