A late 1950s house in Berwyn with most of its midcentury features intact, from the jaunty roof line to a pink bathroom, is coming on the market May 19.

Erin O’Connell and Victor Hernandez are asking $265,000 for the four-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot house on 26th Street. It’s listed with Nick Fournier of Scout Real Estate Partners.

“It’s been kept original as much as possible,” O’Connell said.

The flooring throughout the house is not original. O’Connell and Hernandez removed much of it before relocating to Wisconsin, so the next buyer “will have a clean slate,” she said.

The home’s original owner was its architect, O’Connell has been told, although she has not determined his name. Hernandez’s family bought the house in 2010, paying $185,000 and becoming only the third owners since the house was built in 1958.

Typical of the era, the house’s exterior is a mix of materials, including brick, stone, wood and glass, “with a lot of angles,” O’Connell said. Inside are more hallmarks of the era, including a staircase surrounded by an indoor planter, an open screen of wood and a turquoise-and-white tile mural. Elsewhere are a hefty stone fireplace with a built-in barbecue grill, a wood-beamed ceiling in the family room and dresser-drawers built into a bedroom wall.

“One of our favorites is the pink bathroom,” O’Connell said. “If you’re a midcentury buff, you’ll find that appealing.” Others might opt to update it. Updating the kitchen would be another major expense.

Though it’s one story facing the street, the house steps down to be two stories in the back, the south side, where “you get so much cheery natural light inside,” O’Connell said.

Fournier said he had no estimate of the cost to redo the floors.

Rehabbing midcentury homes is a popular undertaking for flippers these days, but the work required here may be light enough to attract an end-user homeowner, O’Connell said.

Whether the buyer is an end-user or a flipper, O’Connell said, “we want somebody to restore it.”

The house’s asking price, $265,000, is well below the median price of homes so far this year in Berwyn. That’s $287,000, according to Midwest Real Estate Data.

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