One Dollar House: Italianate in South Bend
The City of South Bend, Indiana (home to the Fightin’ Irish of Notre Dame!) has established a wonderful program called the “Dollar House Program” in effort to revive some of the city’s vacant...
View ArticleMore One Dollar Houses- Norfolk Massachusetts
In Norfolk, Massachusetts, as in so many other places, several older houses have been slated for demolition to make way for new construction. Bill Domineau at the Norfolk Historical Commission...
View ArticleThis Old House Meets Ice Road Truckers
We’ve posted about one dollar houses available in South Bend, Indiana, and in Norfolk, Massachusetts. Sometimes, the catch is that the houses have to be moved from their present location. You might...
View ArticleHistoric Life Saving Station Needs Life Saving Move – $1
The waters off of New Jersey can be treacherous for shipping traffic and many ships have come to grief against the Jersey rocks. In the 19th and early 20th-century, the Life Saving Service (the...
View ArticleOne Dollar House: 100-year-old Craftsman in Joplin, MO
The St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Joplin, Missouri has a great offer for you: A brick, circa 1908, Craftsman bungalow for just $1. Yes, one dollar. Of course, the catch is that you have to move...
View ArticleAnother U-Move-It One Dollar House: the Middleboro Massachusetts 1876 Otis...
The owners of the historic Otis Briggs House are looking for a buyer to purchase and relocate the house. The Victorian Eastlake-style house stands behind Steve’s Sports Den at 145 Centre Street in...
View ArticleWhen $1 Historic Houses Are Not $1 Houses
It may seem like the economy is worse than we thought when $1.00 is too much for buyers to spend on a historic house! In the desirable town of Barrington, Illinois, that is exactly what has happened....
View ArticleMore One Dollar Historic Houses: North Carolina & Chicago
Come get ‘em! Two more old houses that will be demolished soon if no one buys them for $1 and moves them from their current site: The first property is located in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood...
View ArticleRichardsonian Mansion in Sharon, PA being “eBayed”
Many-a-time on our road trips between Connecticut and Ohio, we would exit I-80 to stop for gas near a small city named Sharon, just after crossing the border from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Yet we never...
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