FOR SALE: Incredibly Intact 1870 Victorian 

i gasped at the gasoliers. 🥰

Wonder if arsenic is a concern if wallpaper is original?

Me too!!

@@HauntedMemoirs no. Arsenic green is a very recognizable color, and is no used in this paper.

OH MY GOSH THIS REPLY IS EVERYTHING 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

@@OurRestorationNation Thank you for showing us how magnificent is the historic American architecture. Sure we have plenty of castles and palaces here in Europe, but in America, you have it all that and often times better for residential purposes of regular people. And that's fascinating.

It’s location leaves a lot to be desired. I-30 is your view out the front door and theirs a sign business in your back yard. Location, location, location.

@@Castleknight I do not care what is around the house. What I care about is how the house is magnificent. Here we talk about historical property, not a newly constructed house in a secluded area.

I wondered where this house, was located. Now I know, and understand why there are window grilles over all the windows and what looks like a grizzly bear-proof grille over the front door. Wouldn't live in Little Rock if you gave me the whole dang town.

@@jamesdalton3082 It was getting pretty bad even before I left there in 1989, but I still had family living there until 2008 when my parents moved up to northern Arkansas. When we would visit them, it always bothered me to see how seedy and rundown nearly the whole place had gotten. Only the area out west along Chenal Parkway was halfway decent. It makes me sad.

​@@rneustel388believe me, I know. I rent the house I grew up in from my parents after they moved in their retirement house. What was once a white working class neighborhood with little crime, now I have been stuck up with a gun 1 block from my house by 2 black males, had someone shot in the leg in the driveway behind my house, 3 weeks ago there were 8 gunshots directly in front of my house. I constantly have to pick up trash around the house. It's really sad and diversity is not a strength, it's the source of destruction. I'm in the lower end of northeast Philadelphia. It was a great neighborhood to grow up in, now it's destroyed.

Oh Holly that’s HEARTBREAKING!!! Just for future reference you can place interior historic easements on a property. You’d need to work with the local Historic District or your states SHPO, but it can be done

Totally agree!

I would definitely put in major stipulations/restrictions if I ever sold one I had restored!

Ditto

Oh no!!! How devastating!! 😥

I was definitely taking notes on that solution. Moderizing kitchens with so many doorways is such tricky business.

This is literally the exact layout we have planned for Pearl, so we were so excited to see it “in action” in this house!

Yes. Or else some moron who thinks their taste is fab will move in and ruin it. Turns my stomach.

Unfortunately, historic designation frequently means exterior only

Anyone notice that Early Queen Anne Victorian cat flap cut into the meticulously preserved back door? Genuine plastic, I believe.

@@jamesdalton3082 Everyone makes allowances for four-lrgged family. 😏

It's only had three owners since 1870 - they were all apparently interested in preservation.

How great is that?!

Yes, I thought that was charming. I remember this being done in the 50s when I was a child in the southern part of America. Charm has left the building nowadays. It's glass, metal, black gray and white.. I like the old stuff so much better.

While it offers privacy in the home when welcoming visitors, it was dual purpose to control room temperatures since there was no central heating.

I've never seen that either. Usually pocket doors would serve that function. I love pocket doors🤗.

Back before & after the revolution, in homes up north there would also be heavy drapes over the inside of exterior doors to keep drafts out & act as extra insulation. I nevereven realized this until I swathe series "John Adams" where the set designers were meticulous in recreating the period and homes.

We did it in Ireland too. The idea was to keep out the windy drafts.

As US tourists we traveled around Yorkshire about five years ago and we LOVED the stone houses and barns like we used to see in All Creatures Great and Small. On fixer upper shows from the UK I am astounded at the number of row homes that all look the same for blocks and blocks, with front "gardens" that are often completely cemented and indifferent architectural style. It's really the same in the US. While there ARE lots of really old homes in the US, there are others that have been completely remodeled a number of times. In my hometown in PA someone on the main street removed all the more recent exterior wall coverings, taking the house back to its actual LOGS as in a log cabin. I LOVE the look of that. It is a real stand out. The same street has gracious wooden and brick Victorians with turrets and interesting side porches. And then away from the center of town are Victorian row homes that have been modernized with vinyl siding and then newer homes from 1920s to brand new. It depends where one is located in the US really. We don't always demolish and replace. However, my grandparents' Queen Anne which I remember very well was demolished in the late 1960s. I can still remember its interesting features. But it would have taken a lot of money to renovate it and its kitchen and bath would have taken a complete gutting. It just wasn't worth it to anyone who would have wanted to fix it up because it was on a busy street with more and more businesses moving in. Nowadays that area of town is not very pleasing to the eye; there are lots of asphalted lots used for a car dealership that moved or went out of business so those asphalt lots just sit there. Ugly. They should create a park, quaint colonial-style shops with business space above, even a small bandstand would be awesome, so that it becomes a town gathering spot instead of horrible wasted space. But it is a bit off the beaten path and they don't have the funds to put into building and planning something like that.

I agree with you. The historic houses in my town are in a bad area. Or the big ones owned by rich people. We had a gorgeous old courthouse from the 1800s that was torn down and rebuilt in the 70s. It's hideous and looks like a prison.

Right!?!?!? I’d buy it just for that front room!

Lol clearly they are

Metrabia?? I've replayed that word many times trying to figure out what she's saying. Perhaps a French word?

It must have been a very popular print. I didn't care for it in the LR but I liked the red, green and gold colorway in the DR.

You know I’m #same

I think it’s mine too Tony