The floors are an indication of structurally issues, ie. the foundations have started to collapse and/ or joists have been messed with badly. Who ever buys this should pull everything out, saving what can be salvaged, gut and rebuild. IF this house can be saved it will take someone with a lot of money and time cause I see it as a 3-5 year project.
I help restore houses like this. I didn't see any hacks in the basement. Probably needs to be supported and the non-original strip flooring would need replacing
I love this home. The room with the humungous fireplace was the original kitchen. The two rooms off of the main entry were the original dining room and the living room. I Would remove that present modern kitchen addition and the rooms with the sliding doors and have a breezeway/patio/deck between the home and the 3 car garage. Upstairs, of course fix the stairs. There are 5 bedrooms up there. I would take the bedroom closest to the master and turn it into a master closet/dressing room and enlarge the bathroom next to it.
I was hoping you would show the Laundry sink downstairs......Was it Painted Cement ? And I think you missed showing us a Pantry too......full of charm in it's own way. I love the old Fireplace you could make stew and bread in there.
My old house was built in 1918 and it had the logs as well. It also had wonky floors. Not as bad as this house though. I dearly loved it anyway. For as big as this house is the bedrooms are small.
I wonder if this place was being used as a hotel or something. All those bathrooms have showers or tubs, which wouldn't be necessary for an office. Maybe the nameplates on the doors were meant historically as a theme. The weird landing upstairs was perhaps the result of chopping up rooms and needing to accomodate more doorways. Originally the layout probably made more sense.
I’m not gonna lie, the first steps of going down in that basement would have creeped me out😂 If renovated back more original it could be such a cool old house.
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Nice tour, good thing he was a doctor, he probably fell down the stairs every other day. Structurally it's tore up from the floor up.
The plaques found in the house pay homage to previous owners. Here is some information I was able to find doing a quick armchair genealogical search this afternoon. Note that I could not verify that these individuals actually lived in this particular house - the closest I could find was an occasional reference to "Main Street" (there were no house numbers even as late as the 1940's census). - Dr. William Buell and his wife Abigal ("Nabby") were married in 1796. Both were living in Sheffield at the time. It appears they lived there until 1815, at which time they moved to Litchfield, CT, where Dr. Buell was born. This would jive with his plaque (1800-1815) as they may have lived elsewhere before the home was built. - The plaque for Dr. Nathaniel Preston indicates he lived there from 1815-1835. He married Jane Ashley in 1816. Dr. Preston died in 1825. There were no records found for the death of Jane Ashley, so I can't cooroborate the 1835 date on the plaque. - I didn't see any wall plaques in the video that accounted for the time period between 1835-1900. If anyone saw one, please let me know. - Dr. Byron Tompkins' plaque indicates he lived there from 1900-1926. The 1900 census shows him living in Manhattan with his first wife, but by 1910 he was in Sheffield with his second wife. He died in May of 1926. - Edwin B Dutcher's plaque listed him in the home from 1926-1963. He was not a physician. There is no reference to Mr. Dutcher living in Sheffield until the 1940's census where he is listed as a manager of a lumber supply company. Intrestingly enough, his father was born in Sheffield in 1835, so perhaps that is a missing link!
Yes, it was Dr. Steve Brule's house. He has a show on you tube called 'Check it Out.' And this monstrosity on a main road with zero insulation is what you call a tear down. You'd be upside down financially before the plumber pulled into the driveway.
Antique houses with stone or brick floor basements meant they had money. Not surprising based off the house, but that was a middle class place back then. Also maybe MA is different but my state doesn't care about code for an old house. It was built before code, so they don't factor it in. I had no issues buying my 1790.
No good deals on foreclosed houses anymore. If it was a good house, in a desirable area, the bank would simply turn it over to a realtor and want full market value for it. If it’s a bargain, there is a good reason it is going cheap. Same thing with repo’ed used cars; they are almost always reclaimed in nasty, damaged, abused, and wrecked condition. People abuse them until they break then stop making the payments.
Nightmare. They don't build them like they used to and thank God. Those logs in the basement aren't anywhere near the size they need to be to support a house that big. $400,000.00 is way too much. Bad bones.
Yes using hand crafted, old growth wood is so bad right? That's why all these ancient houses are still standing and modern ones collapse after 10 years of abandonment! My house is from 1790, they used no nails, no screws, no glue, no Chinese cheapness.
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It's Saturday night and my wife and I are watching. Everytime you say "deferred maintenance" we have a drink!
yes! lol
It was a bed and Breakfast called Berkshire Manor. The Facebook page still exists with phitos of the rooms when they were beautifully furnished.
Fabulous historic home, hopefully someone will restore her!
I agree, a house like this will definitely take the right buyer.
Those tracks on the ceiling is for track lighting, not curtains or room dividers.
The floors are an indication of structurally issues, ie. the foundations have started to collapse and/ or joists have been messed with badly. Who ever buys this should pull everything out, saving what can be salvaged, gut and rebuild. IF this house can be saved it will take someone with a lot of money and time cause I see it as a 3-5 year project.
I help restore houses like this. I didn't see any hacks in the basement. Probably needs to be supported and the non-original strip flooring would need replacing
I love this home. The room with the humungous fireplace was the original kitchen. The two rooms off of the main entry were the original dining room and the living room. I Would remove that present modern kitchen addition and the rooms with the sliding doors and have a breezeway/patio/deck between the home and the 3 car garage. Upstairs, of course fix the stairs. There are 5 bedrooms up there. I would take the bedroom closest to the master and turn it into a master closet/dressing room and enlarge the bathroom next to it.
I was hoping you would show the Laundry sink downstairs......Was it Painted Cement ? And I think you missed showing us a Pantry too......full of charm in it's own way. I love the old Fireplace you could make stew and bread in there.
My old house was built in 1918 and it had the logs as well. It also had wonky floors. Not as bad as this house though. I dearly loved it anyway. For as big as this house is the bedrooms are small.
P.S. the tracks in the ceiling are from 1990 track lighting!
I wonder if this place was being used as a hotel or something. All those bathrooms have showers or tubs, which wouldn't be necessary for an office. Maybe the nameplates on the doors were meant historically as a theme. The weird landing upstairs was perhaps the result of chopping up rooms and needing to accomodate more doorways. Originally the layout probably made more sense.
This is one for this old house!
I’m not gonna lie, the first steps of going down in that basement would have creeped me out😂
If renovated back more original it could be such a cool old house.
Nice tour, good thing he was a doctor, he probably fell down the stairs every other day. Structurally it's tore up from the floor up.
The plaques found in the house pay homage to previous owners. Here is some information I was able to find doing a quick armchair genealogical search this afternoon. Note that I could not verify that these individuals actually lived in this particular house - the closest I could find was an occasional reference to "Main Street" (there were no house numbers even as late as the 1940's census).
- Dr. William Buell and his wife Abigal ("Nabby") were married in 1796. Both were living in Sheffield at the time. It appears they lived there until 1815, at which time they moved to Litchfield, CT, where Dr. Buell was born. This would jive with his plaque (1800-1815) as they may have lived elsewhere before the home was built.
- The plaque for Dr. Nathaniel Preston indicates he lived there from 1815-1835. He married Jane Ashley in 1816. Dr. Preston died in 1825. There were no records found for the death of Jane Ashley, so I can't cooroborate the 1835 date on the plaque.
- I didn't see any wall plaques in the video that accounted for the time period between 1835-1900. If anyone saw one, please let me know.
- Dr. Byron Tompkins' plaque indicates he lived there from 1900-1926. The 1900 census shows him living in Manhattan with his first wife, but by 1910 he was in Sheffield with his second wife. He died in May of 1926.
- Edwin B Dutcher's plaque listed him in the home from 1926-1963. He was not a physician. There is no reference to Mr. Dutcher living in Sheffield until the 1940's census where he is listed as a manager of a lumber supply company. Intrestingly enough, his father was born in Sheffield in 1835, so perhaps that is a missing link!
Yeah, gut that first, facing bedroom upstairs to create a large landing, and extend the bath jnto whatever space is left...
looks just like my basement... minus the brick flooring... just dirt here...
That’s gonna take an extra $100000+ to make that nice and useable.
Yes, it was Dr. Steve Brule's house. He has a show on you tube called 'Check it Out.'
And this monstrosity on a main road with zero insulation is what you call a tear down. You'd be upside down financially before the plumber pulled into the driveway.
At 15:29, another oddity in this place. Did anyone else notice the faucet installed in the entry/stairway? I wonder what that was for?
Didn’t notice, but since you brought it up… I wonder what the heck it would be there for?
Yes, I did. I'm wondering the same thing.
looks like we posted the same question at the same time!
Good Lord, this is odd but beautiful.
Antique houses with stone or brick floor basements meant they had money. Not surprising based off the house, but that was a middle class place back then.
Also maybe MA is different but my state doesn't care about code for an old house. It was built before code, so they don't factor it in. I had no issues buying my 1790.
Can anybody think of a reason why there was a faucet tap in the foyer??
No good deals on foreclosed houses anymore. If it was a good house, in a desirable area, the bank would simply turn it over to a realtor and want full market value for it. If it’s a bargain, there is a good reason it is going cheap. Same thing with repo’ed used cars; they are almost always reclaimed in nasty, damaged, abused, and wrecked condition. People abuse them until they break then stop making the payments.
Very nice house. Needs no work inside. Just needs to be painted on the outside.
Take 200,000 for it and maybe someone will buy it. But it’s going to take money
Nightmare. They don't build them like they used to and thank God. Those logs in the basement aren't anywhere near the size they need to be to support a house that big. $400,000.00 is way too much. Bad bones.
Yes using hand crafted, old growth wood is so bad right? That's why all these ancient houses are still standing and modern ones collapse after 10 years of abandonment! My house is from 1790, they used no nails, no screws, no glue, no Chinese cheapness.
Yours for only $650K