Tasteful friends: Escape to the South in an 1857 Gothic Revival: Holly Springs, Mississippi: $215,000

Are you gonna make an offer OP?

Mississippi? No, thank you.

Looks like it’s next door to a chicken farm.

Square footage unknown?

Is the dining room ceiling fan hanging over the dining room table along with the chandelier or are they in 2 different places.

[quote] Looks like it’s next door to a chicken farm.

Or on a chicken farm?

The business next door R3 said was a chicken farm is actually American Pacific, a wood paneling manufacturer.

[quote] Five bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and a place to put Mother. Needs some things: like a new standing seam metal roof, a new porch floor, some plaster repairs, new HVAC (those monstrous shit brown heaters backed up to the fireplaces!), a fresh start in the kitchen (though I'm a sucker for galley kitchens and would keep the configuration), and some other things unseen, but not a huge budget for all of that.

The porch floor and ceiling need to be replaced. I guess you could just say that the porch needs to be replaced.

This is the historical plaque in front of the house. It's apparently the former home of katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell who was the "secretary and inspiration to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", and a well known writer in her own right.

It's a beautiful old place, but obviously in need of some fast maintenance, especially roof and ceiling work. it's a good price but whoever buys it will need deep pockets and the will to deal with constant maintenance. These old places are always a daily battle against rot.

The only thing I really dislike inside are those hideous old heaters placed in each room.

Maybe a couple of eldergay pornies can make it work since they live around there.

Is there room for a dungeon?

[quote]and a place to put Mother

It has its own dumpster?

5000 square feet according to another listing, and 10-acres (difficult to tell from Google Maps the limits of the lot.) I didn't see a chicken farm, only the wood paneling factory next door and some older railroad warehouses across the street from it. The smell of wood is infinitely preferable to a big chicken farm operation, which can stink up a huge area in a huge way.

R7: Right, my description of a sampling of needed changed shortchanged the work needed on the porch ceilings (inevitably some porch foundation and footings work, too.) Also the bathrooms, and the whole back end of the house, infill of a previously open porch I assume, is of dubious aesthetics outside and the same inside probably.

Maybe Ben and Erin will help fix up the place.

R11 the small attic looks pretty suitable

I do like the basic design of the place and it looks spacious enough but you don’t know what maintenance is hidden behind and beneath what we see in the pics. You’ll most likely only find out when it’s empty

I would complain about the red glass, but that seems the least of the problems. I have lived in old shitholes in MS with those weird heaters, and I can smell the bugs in that place from here.

How did you survive in Mississippi without air conditioning? 10 acres built in 1857. They reduced the price by $20,000 in April. I would be afraid to purchase a home built in 1857.

Is that a wheel chair ramp on the right side of the front porch.

Why be afraid of a house built in 1857, R17?

Looks like it could be a wheel chair ramp, or maybe just a railing for someone with lesser mobility issues. Oddly it doesn't seem to show in some details of the porch so maybe photos are from different periods of time; as I recall, the house was for sale not too many years ago. Aside from the main door at the front, there is a door at the opposite corner of the mystery railing on the rear elevation, possibly another. The rear elevation portion is a mess with a sort of half-assed sleeping porch and windows of varying shape and configuration but the piecemeal and shoddy changes at the back (the infilled exterior porch) are good in the sense that they spared the early core of the house from compromise.

[quote] Why be afraid of a house built in 1857, [R17]?

For obvious reasons . . .

Obvious to you.

It is the slave ghosts, R20.

[quote] Obvious to you.

The home is 160+ yrs old. The maintenance needed is frightening. There’s also the maintenance of the 10 acres of land to consider.

Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi have cheap, gorgeous old homes for sale... too bad they are in such backward states

R23 hon, outside the coastal areas of California, and far enough outside every major liberal city in the nation you'll find millions of square miles of backward areas full of deplorables. So don't go gettin' so high and mighty Toots.

And if you look around greater Los Angeles you'll find a very uncomfortable percentage of right wing conservative deplorables. The richer the area the larger the percentage of right wing shit stains who don't give a fat rat's ass about what happens to anyone else as long as they get theirs.

Thats very cool, love the exterior, interior is nice too but needs some tweaks, although I could live with it as it stands