“Price: $0 (must be moved)
Location: Grimesland, North Carolina, USA.
The History:…Around 1910, William (Faucette) built this grand farmhouse on the site of the original house, and he lived there with his wife and daughter, both named Louise. The house stayed in the family until 2011, when the owner of an adjacent property bought the estate for the land. He is now offering the house to anyone willing to move it.
Shown: The 4,363-square-foot house has six bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms. It retains original exterior details, such as Doric columns and the center gable’s fish-scale shingles.”
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About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
this must be heartbreaking for the families involved, but maybe someone will make a good go of this….
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/15/got-1000-buy-a-stunning-house-in-detroit
Got $1,000? Buy a stunning house in Detroit
Detroit is auctioning off abandoned homes starting at just $1,000 each.
They include a 2,354 square foot home from 1881, a seven-bedroom Tudor-style home and a 1914 Georgian Revival home with "irreplaceable architectural details."
Yes, it is very heartbreaking to the Faucette Family. They are hoping someone will be able to afford to move it. My Mother lived in this house as a child. She has fond memories of it.