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Your next $400,000 house
The New York Times What You Get for … $400,000, a round-up of interesting houses for sale across the country, includes 2419 East Grace Street:
This Italianate house, built in 1895, is in the Church Hill is a neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places known for its 19th-century brick houses built in the Victorian and Federal style. Across the street is the Episcopal Church where, in 1775, Patrick Henry gave his famous “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. Most of the residences here are single-family homes, though several tobacco warehouses and stables have been converted to condominiums. There are a couple of restaurants and cafes in the surrounding blocks, including Millie’s Diner, which is perennially jammed for brunch. A grocery story is a block downhill toward the James River; downtown Richmond is about a mile away along the James.
Interesting that they picked unsold houses to feature as opposed to ones where the market has been defined better. There’s a lot of people asking for one price that are going to have to come down significantly before they sell and some that are spot on when they list. If the intent is to show how far your money goes in a market, it would make sense to show sold homes.
I really do like the NYT ‘What you get for…’ series. Sold or not, it gives insights into architecture new and old, life styles and environment. Another series of articles focuses on House Hunting in foreign places and is also an interesting treat.
At least this doesn’t look to be in bad shape and hasn’t been butchered with modern additions.
Was the other half of this for sale recently also? I seem to remember seeing an open house in the building in the spring but the inside of that house looked very different than this one.