Indiana Victorian Cottage Real Estate Auction Starting Bid $1

OHU50K Notes Starting Bid $1

Real Estate Auction starting at $1, waiting for someone to place their winning bet on this charmer!

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REAL ESTATE INFO: Don’t miss this charming, historical, and move in ready home! Close to shopping, eateries, and schools. Includes a well-kept single-story home built in 1929 with a 2 car-detached garage (360 sf) situated on a 35×130 corner lot.  House interior features: 1345 +/- SF above grade living area, 600 sf basement/744 sf crawl space, 2BR/1BA, very nice sunroom, hardwood floors throughout, original interior trim, & elaborate fretwork. House exterior features: asphalt shingle roof, wood siding, detached 2-car garage, nice covered front porch with swing, small private rear deck, and rear alley access. Mechanicals: natural gas furnace & water heater, central air. Immediate possession available-don’t miss out on your chance to own this home! 

REAL ESTATE HISTORY: Briscoe-Wells-Schechter House -714 Vincennes Street: New Albany attorney John H. Weathers and his wife, Nattie, purchased three lots on the east side of Vincennes Street in May 1902 and are believed to have constructed this one-story frame cottage for speculative resale purposes shortly thereafter. Joseph O. Briscoe and his wife, Bertie, purchased the new home in April 1904 for $1,200, but only lived here three years before selling it to Holmes and Anna Wells for $1,500. Holmes Wells was an agent with the Baltimore & Ohio freight office in New Albany. He died in April 1923, and his widow sold the property in August 1927. After numerous owners over the next twenty-plus years, George and Jessie Schechter bought the property in July 1951 from her mother, Fannie Baylor, and made their home here. The Schechters previously lived at 702 Vincennes Street. He was a salesman, and she wss a charter member of the Piankeshaw Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), where she also served as its regent. Jessie Schechter passed away in January 1960 at the age of seventy-eight. Geore Schechter died just over a year later at age eighty-two in February 1961.

The Briscoe-Wells-Schechter House is Queen Anne in style and features a cross-gable roofline with a prominent square tower with bracketed cornice, specialty siding with a pinwheel medallion and a pyramidal roof capped by a decorative metal finial. The house’s front gable features an arched window and a bay window sheltered by a large wraparound porch supported by iron replacement columns. An outstanding feature of the house’s interior is an elaborate fretwork spandrel decorating the cased opening between the front parlor and dining room. The house retains its original wood trim throughout.

• 2bd
• 1ba
• 1,345sqft

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