Historic House of the Week

by chuckofish

Since I can’t go to Saturday morning estate sales with my dual personality, I have to comfort myself by visiting one of my favorite web sites, Historic Properties where I peruse the many wonderful old houses for sale. This week I was in the mood for a nice Midwestern brick Italianate and quickly found one in Champaign Illinois.

all photos from Historic Properties website

The house was built in 1867 and remodeled in the 1950s. It does need some work

but you can buy it for a mere $250,000. In the dining room there are nice built-in cupboards, although the pink walls would have to go.

Some unspecified room (judging from the pink walls, perhaps the dining room) has a cool marble fireplace,

and the staircase looks solid:

I like this house. It’s spacious without feeling like a hotel; it has excellent architectural details without being ornate and it’s not oppressively gloomy. With a little fixing up it could be a great family home. I just hope someone out there wants to live in an old brick Italianate in Champaign Illinois — it would be a shame to let the house deteriorate further. What do you think? Would you live in a house like this?