815 N 6th St, Quincy, IL 62301 $59,000 Under $75K Thursday ~ c.1910 Italianate Home For Sale in Quincy, IL OHU50K NOTES Lots of ornate woodwork, floating staircase, pocket doors, floor to ceiling windows, ornate fireplaces and more. Family History At the turn of the century, the 800 block of North 6th Street could almost be…
320 W Lincoln St, Westfield, IL 62474 $29,900 Contingent Affordable Home OHU50K NOTES Bring your tools and ideas and turn this home back into the beauty it once was. Looks like it may originally have had a belvedere up top. Apparently, Westfield was settled by a number of Irish immigrants in the 1870s and…
547 Main St, Lykens, PA 17048 $74,900 Contingent Under $75K Thursday – c.1900 Italianate Home For Sale in Lykens, PA Under $75K OHU50K NOTES What a beauty! Family History In the 1930s until 1969, this home was owned by Elmer Elsworth Umholtz (1897-1969) and his wife Melba Beatrice Batdorf Umholtz (1902-1965). Elmer was a restaurant…
7527 N Albion St, Wawaka, IN 46794 $13,900 $39,900 $49,900 Fixer Upper -Save This Old House in Wawaka Indiana Under $50K OHU50K NOTES Some houses are like the movie Groundhog Day. We find them repeatedly taken on and off the market time and time again. This house is one of them. OHU50K featured this home when…
235 W College Ave, Jacksonville, IL 62650. $19,900 Fixer Upper OHU50K NOTES Family History Robert and Zella Reid, owners of this property from the 1930s to the 1950s, would likely be saddened to see the home in its present condition. Robert owned a bakery and Zella owned a beauty salon. The couple resided here…
12 Church St, Lisbon, NY, 13658 $57,000 Reduced to $50,000 Pending Still on the Market for $50,000 Fixer Upper – Save This Old House in Lisbon NY $50K OHU50K NOTES Save this old house. This c.1850 Italianate is the quintessential fixer upper. Everything from A to Z will need to be restored, but oh what…
2159 State Route 12D Hwy, Boonville, NY 13309. $45,000 Reduced to $39,900 c.1875 Fixer Upper Talcottville Grange Hall, NY $39,900 OHU50K NOTES A map published by D.G. Beers in 1875 (shown below) has this building listed as “Store,” so we might assume that at least one side of the building was Talcottville’s general…
2 Bayard St, Amsterdam, NY 12010 $45,000 c.1900 Italianate For Sale in Amsterdam, NY For $45K OHU50K NOTES This area of Amsterdam was largely settled by Italian immigrants in the early 1900s. It appears that this house, located on a corner lot, began life as a rental property with two units. One of its earliest tenants…
31 High St, Lyons, NY 14489 $100,000 Italianate Home For Sale OHU50K NOTES This gorgeous c.1840 Italianate home for sale in Lyons, New York (pop. 3,619) was built 15 years after the completion of the Erie Canal through the hamlet. Family History I could not find the original owners of this spectacular house, but a…