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Here's another nomination for Paxton Ave., it's at 1335. This house has always bothered me. It has sold 4 times since 1991 and no one seems to want to put the top back on the turret. I have no idea what happened to it. I haven't been by this house in a few years, so I don't know if it's been corrected yet, but I doubt it. The following 3 photos are from CincyMLS: 1991 2002 2004

I bought a couple pages a few years ago from a book someone had dismantled and was selling on Ebay in pieces. The pages I bought featured a home at 10 Grandin Ln. in Hyde Park. The photos I have are from 1928. The home was built in 1925. The section of the book I have is titled "The Residence of Mrs. Jean Schmidlapp". The home was in the ownership of Charles E. Scripps of E.W. Scripps (Scripps Howard News Service) from 1977-1994. It recently sold in April 2006 for $4,100,000. First photo is from Hamilton County Auditor website and is recent. Remainder of photos are from this book, photos taken by Samuel H. Gottscho. For any technical people... architect was Grosvenor Atterbury and associates as Stowe Phelps and John Tompkins. Landscape architect as Ferruccio Vitale.

I got on MLS and found out the house I was referring to in the above post is still for sale. It's at 8575 Kugler Mill Rd. It's been on the market now for 509 days. It's listed at $2,500,000. It last sold in 1993 for $907,500. If you want to see more photos, go to www.comey.com. The ones I found on there are larger than the ones in MLS. Not sure if this is the correct section to post these photos, but since I'm posting in reference to the post above, I thought it sounded like the best place to post them. Here's a quote from MLS: "This home, originally the Waite Smith House, was built in 1778 in Watertown, Connecticut. It was moved in 1953 by noted former P&G legal counsel, Richard Barrett. The home was dismantled, board by board, and rebuilt at 8575 Kugler Mill Road. The original home had four more rooms on the first floor and four on the second."

I looked it up in MLS, looks like the landlord got an even better deal. It closed out at $99k. I can't believe that area has gotten that bad. Back in the early 90's I partied a lot on Moerlein. It was a pretty decent area back then. I can't believe I've got to the point in my life when I refer to things as "back then". I just sold a duplex on Clifton Ave. around the corner from there for $48k, but it had no parking at all. My favorite street over there is Klotter.

If someone wanted to dismantle a house in a historic district and rebuild it in a better location, is that something that is frowned upon? Just curious. I know the costs would be pretty outrageous. I saw a home in Indian Hill in MLS in the past year and in the remarks it said it was originally built in Connecticut in the 1700's, dismantled piece by piece, then brought here and rebuilt.

Make sure you check out the virtual tour link. That house is almost 7,000 sq ft on one floor. It was built by Elliot Levey back in the 60's and apparently was never remodeled. He either owned or ran McGraw Construction (I think he owned it). It was a company well known for building at one time the 1950's post War tract homes in Middletown that have concrete ceilings for the basements (somewhat like a bomb shelter). If you're familiar with Middletown, it's the neighborhood off University Blvd., near the old Montgomery Ward store (called Wildwood). The house featured above is at 525 Curryer Rd. and is built like a rock. Too bad it wasn't built it in an area where it could have retained a decent value. After being on the market in Middletown for about 1 1/2 years it sold in 2004 for $372,000. Today it would probably cost over $2,000,000 to build it brand new. I saw interior photos of the guy's house that bought it. I think he must have bought it for size and not the architecture b/c based on the way his previous home of 20 years was styled, he pretty much wasn't into style. Just sayin'.

This is a really cool house. When it was for sale they had a virtual tour and I bookmarked the link. I've never been able to save it so if anyone knows how to save this kind of file, please let me know. For some reason, the tour and link are still active after being sold 3 years ago. Here's the link: http://www.vividtour.com/egg/main.htm Here are some photos I have saved on my computer at the time (I think the pics came from Sawyer Realtors website): front view porch off master bedroom fountain outside dining room glass wall great room living room dining room kitchen breakfast room study

Moonloop - thanks for the heads up on the Bloomfield/Schon website (http://www.bloomfieldschon.com). I was able to get the images from there and post them below. Image from Bloomfield/Schon website Image from Bloomfield/Schon website Image from Bloomfield/Schon website Image from Bloomfield/Schon website

In person, the rounded corner brick of Michigan Terrace looks more like 1950's blond brick. The picture above at no. 1 looks kinda peach colored or maybe it's just my eyes. Has anyone been able to get photos of the upper floor sections from any of the surrounding buildings? I remember even in the renderings they never completely showed what the upper floors looked like from outside. I thought the big spaces above the top floor windows/doors were for awnings, but I didn't see any up this summer.

Good point on the Hardi-Plank. I forgot about that product. A friend of mine just put that on his house last year. The only thing that I didn't like about it is it's thin and very flexible. He's got an old farm type house so the siding shows how uneven a certain part of his house is, whereas real wood would not have (or at least I don't think it would have). I guess this product would be perfect though for a house that was pretty much level all over, especially a newer home. There was a product on an HGTV show about 2 years ago. I think it was on one of the Before & After episodes. It wasn't fiber concrete, it was literally 100% concrete siding that could be made in different patterns. For that episode, the guy used the design of wood siding. It was not nearly as thin as the fiber type boards. When the episode was on I looked up the product, but can't seem to find the link I had in my bookmarks and was unable to find it doing a search online. Anybody know what the technical name is for this type of siding?

The alternative to vinyl isn't just brick. There's good old wood siding. I've never seen a vinyl job where I just stood back and admired it. Sure, they've got little methods to not make them as bland as the "regular" vinyl siding that gets slapped on $80k houses, but when it comes right down to it you're putting a fake finish on your house. And over time, vinyl warps, it discolors... it is definitely not maintenance free. And no matter how much character they can trick people into thinking is going on, you still have that crappy overlapping on the sides and always on the backs. It's just cheap looking, there's no way around it. It's not solid. You can push on it and it moves. You can mow your yard, hit a rock and put a big hole in it. The wind can blow and knock it loose and that's always a pretty site. But my favorite of all was about 15 years ago in Middletown on Central Ave. A little house burned down and its neighbor's siding melted.

That might not be a bad idea. There are 3 across the street built around one year later that are roughly the same size, but have longer driveways, square footage mainly on 2 floors and definitely more character (even though they're still vinyl). 430-434 Stanley Ave. - Columbia Tusculum Image from CincyMLS Image from CincyMLS This one just sold a 2nd time in September of this year for $510,000. 434 Stanley Ave. - Columbia Tusculum Photo from CincyMLS

Re: Reply #1079... This beauty ended up selling for $373,000. On the market for 32 days. Agent Only remarks in MLS state "High end, tasteful offering" 435 Stanley Ave. - Columbia Tusculum Photo from CincyMLS