FOR SALE: 6000sf 1917 Mansion Only $339,900!
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Go to thld.co/munkpa... and use code RESTORATION to get 20% off your first purchase! Thanks to Munk Pack for sponsoring today’s video!
Well, here it is, your DREAM HOME. Even WE couldn't believe this amazing historic home when we walked in the door. If you are a historic home lover and are looking for the perfect home, in the perfect historic neighborhood, with the perfect amount of DIY then THIS is the beauty for you.
This home was built just after the Victorian Era, and combines elements if Beaux Arts, Jacobean, Arts and Crafts: she's a true eclectic mix. Built in 1917 by the Mueller family, this beautiful home contains all the best elements of the day. Inside you'll find a Jacobean or Tudor style ceiling, fireplace, incredible plaster ceiling in the entryway, hex tile on the floors, original windows and SO much more.
During the Great Depression the original family, like so many others, were hit hard by economic crisis. In a successful bid to keep the home the owners divided the enormous home into three full units, and that is how it remains to this day. The changes take nothing away from the beauty of the home, but it does make this home fantastic for a single family, an airbnb, or best yet a wedding venue!
The extensive grounds include a three car garage with the original chaufeurs quarters which could be another income producing property. The enormous yard would be the perfect place for a wedding, and the backyard backs up to the historic neighborhood of Millikin Place, the homeplace of the founders of Millikin University which is just blocks away.
This beautiful historic home awaits its next caretakers. It needs just the right amount of home renovation for those who crave getting their hands dirty, or could be move in ready for the perfect family.
$339,900 - 8 bd - 9 ba 6,085 sqft
Listed by: Chris Harrison 217-520-2085
Main Place Real Estate
www.zillow.com...
BECOME AN OUR RESTORATION NATION OFFICIAL CITIZEN: www.ourrestora...
www.ourrestora...
Instagram: / ourrestorationnation
Facebook: / ourrestorationnation
TikTok: www.tiktok.com...
Go to thld.co/munkpack_restoration_0922 and use code RESTORATION to get 20% off your first purchase! Thanks to Munk Pack for sponsoring today’s video!
Thanks for the close-up of the telephone covered in thick paint. I had a laugh.
On one level some beautiful features, but the subdividing into three units makes this place, at times, a dog's dinner. Let us see this place is 100+ years old and has many original features (single pane windows or rads, for example), so what is behind the walls or under the floors? This place looks like the ultimate money pit. Could you bring it up to its original glory and fully modernized for less than a million dollars?
I want the mansion
I’m looking for more information on Esther Abrami, specifically how to get the music titles streamed to my phone. I plugged her name into iTunes (now Apple Music) but couldn’t find the recordings of these songs. Can you provide the specific names of the tunes? Much appreciated. She’s so talented!
The beauty of the exterior draws you in.
Was that a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright homes next to this?
As a senior I would buy this home and move all my friends into the separate Apartments, and concentrate on making really gorgeous and inviting common rooms. We can all grow old together and keep each other company!
I love this so much!
I’ve been wishing the same thing!
Just like golden girls
Yes, my thoughts exactly.
Sounds like a perfect plan, Nancy, but one question - can I be your friend? Ha! Ha! Ha! 🤣
So, this is what happens when your architect asks you what kind of house you would like and you say yes.
Imagine that in its glory days... I love all of the original details - and all the internal phones, scattered all over 😍 I felt like it was missing a grand staircase, but I could do something with that house - I just need a rich husband 😂
Don't we all just need a rich husband (or wife/spouse)? 😂
How about a lottery win instead?
Or a couple of silent investors.
Sold for $285k! Somebody got a steal!!! ❤this house!
really???
The property is located in a tiny decaying city in rural Illinois. That's why. It is like the Detroit of Illinois. A run down jobless night lifeless dead city.
This mansion is sold already?
@@franciscopiojrcevallos3953 yes it was sold. But it needs renovation costing hundreds of thousands of dollars plus the property is located in a very remote and undeveloped rural Illinois state. There is a reason why this property was sold so cheaply.
it will cost a fortune to heat it. those radiators is not at all the most efficient heating system
I love that the three units in this gorgeous house are still intact and most of the original fittings all seem to be there, too. This could be a beautiful event venue with accomodations. At this price it could also be a wonderful multi-generational family home. Decatur is a very pretty town.🌸
I like the idea of multi generation home...or an upscale seniors group.home...
Yes, it seems very pretty, lots of trees in this area, etc. Beautiful.
Take a tour of Spain ruclips.net/video/V43BaXQiSwQ/видео.html
i'm always amazed to see an old home with so much original (or at least very old) detail still intact. i don't like that it was split up into separate living spaces, but seeing as how i'll never be its owner, i don't actually need to be concerned with that. 😉 i was surprised to see that old telephone on the wall! that's so cool! thanks for the wonderful drone footage in the beginning of the video. i love seeing all that exterior detail close(r) up. 👍
Totally agree about the division of spaces.
The splitting of the home.....And it would have literally been within 20 years of the original build! They had all that money to build it.
This place looks more like an institution than a home.
Beautiful home….however like many things today, it’s not the purchase price that costs money, it’s the price of heating, cooling, lawn maintenance, taxes, and renovation costs.
Being from Decatur, i have been in this home many times. it is beautiful and so much of it is origional . we have many homes like this here in our town. built by the industrial owners that called this town home for many years, before their factories went public.
Why is it so cheap?? What’s the town like?
Does anyone know about the Wabash mansion surrounded by a few other homes with underground tunnels ,once owened by the man who owned the Wabash railroad in around 1954
Spectacular !!!
Would love to see the original floor plan.
What an excellent price❤️
But it's in Decatur...
$340.000.00 is what a garage cost in the city.
This home would be $20-30 million..
But it's in Decatur....lol
What a beautiful home. When I first saw it I thought Yes! It's not far from the town I grew up in, so I recognized the area. It would interesting to know that the original layout of the home was. I thought one area may have been servant quarters. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for all your wonderful videos on these beautiful old houses. I have been a sub for a while but have never thanked you guys. so, THANK YOU! :) These homes inspire dreams and thoughts of who lived there when they were built... such a flight of fancy!
Is this house still for sale?
Magnificent property. I can't imagine heating that sq footage.
Boilers do the trick
It's eclectic!! LOL! Such an interesting roof line, almost Olde Dutch at the top, but then there are the Gothic Revival window and door surrounds in between Neo-Classical Revival pilasters and urns. Inside...so many rooms! I love the decorative tile floor in the butler's pantry and (I'm assuming) original kitchen. And all of those fun little features, like the intercom/phone, fancy doorknobs, hidey-hole cupboards, and art glass surprises. The original owners must have had 'staff', likely including a chauffeur, but I'm surprised to see so many homes in northern states with a carriage house/garage so far from the house. Here in S. CA, we whine about hauling in the groceries when it's raining and most modern houses are built with garages attached. I'm just picturing the amount of snow shoveling required to get the car out. :0 Great music choice. I also like that you are including footage of the neighborhood...I counted three Prairie style houses, though that's probably not a surprise for Illinois. It's really fun to see homes in different parts of the country. Thank you!
What a spectacular home. Very well loved and cared for. It would be ideal for two families or for the home if an antiques dealer/collector. This is a home that would bring allot of joy to someone. Absolutely beautiful. I wouldn't change a thing. Just live there and maintain it. Thank you for sharing.
Wow! I love the way it looks on the outside! As always Laine, a beautiful job highlighting this wonderful historic home! And the neighborhood! Golly day, how gorgeous! I couldn't get over the price though!?!
Oh that kitchen with the white and colored tile, so pretty. Loved how they tied it into the floor.
This could so easily become a gracious, single-family home again! So many original features in great condition for the age of the home.
Sorry, I normally love the houses you show, but not this one. I like big houses but this one is a mess and a maze. I got tired of looking at sitting room after sitting room and bedrooms and bathrooms and more sitting rooms, and none very interesting, not even the large reception rooms made sense, they were large, yes, but perhaps too large to feel proportionate or good looking, even the Jacobean ceiling looked bizarre, well, maybe the solarium was nice .....something went wrong there, either the architect or the owners....The exterior was nice, weird but nice, but the interiors??? whomever buys that has to split it again at least in 3 apartments, 'cause what can you do with so many rooms of weird shapes and sizes??
Oh wow, what a gorgeous home. But if I'm being honest, and I am, this home could be free with a monthly stipend of 10k and I STILL would not move to Illinois! Thank you for the video.
Comparing Decatur Illinois prices to Boise Idaho prices. It seems almost affordable. What would the taxes be on a house like that🤔 a house half that size without any real character would sell for over five hundred thousand dollars in Boise. It's amazing to me. I think it's a beautiful house with lots of quirky character.
Oh my gosh! I know this home. I've never been inside so this is very interesting. I saw the Mueller name and I thought it sounded familiar but then read the rest of the description and realized it was just a few miles away. The Millikin Homestead where the founders of the University is also nearby. I hope you have a chance to visit.
What’s it like living there, pros and cons? I ❤this house!!
Wow! Wish I had alot of money ..you show so many houses I wish I had...Thanks for the video!
Wow that was an interesting blend of styles. Very nice. Decatur is 4 hours north of us and I had family that lived there. The homes are gorgeous. I would have liked to have seen a tour of the last house on the driving tour of the neighborhood. That was great how you incorporated that into the video. Thanks again for another wonderful tour. I look forward to them every week.
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
so this house is less than half of mine in Salt Lake crappy cookie cutter home! wow maybe time to move!
That place needs just a little TLC to return to its former glory. I would turn it back into a single family home and retrofit it with A/C, new plumbing, tankless water heaters, and central heating. I would keep the radiators for their charm. In the right hands, that manor could be a showstopper.
The exterior is much grander than the interior and I expect that's why it's still for sale on Zillow.
Definitely a very unique house. I wish it had been empty, I don't usually say that, but in this instance It would have been easier for me to understand the layout and what the use was for the rooms originally. I can see where this house definitely lends itself to be divided up into separate apartments.
There has to be a catch. Why is such an amazing property selling so cheap in such a gorgeous neighborhood?
This is one of my favorites that you have shown but that beautiful Victorian at the end looked fantastic too. It’s a beautiful area and looks expensive too. I believe you are so right this mansion would be perfect for a wedding venue it even looks like a beautiful cake. Thank you for showing us this lovely home
I did enjoy this virtual walk through and I love this house
This is about 40 minutes from where I live! Thank you so sharing this!
I grew up outside of Decatur in the small town of Cerro Gordo. Moved to Decatur as a young adult and met my husband who had graduated from Millikin University. After moving all over we are now just and hour and 15 minutes southeast. If I had know I would’ve tried to drive over and meet you. I still go back often because of my brother, his kids and grandkids, and friends. I don’t remember this house but it is amazing!
I like it just the way it is. The upstairs unit is amazing. I wish you showed the garage, chauffeurs quarters. It's a steal at that price. Then again, I think it's in Illinois so taxes & crime... :/
Delightful treat to see the vintage kitchen, and the built-in cabinetry elsewhere in the house, as well as the vintage bathrooms - unlike most people, I suppose, I could enjoy living with the ambience these impart.
JUST BEAUTIFUL
So lovely & grand….💚💜
To be honest... I found the inside of the house to be a disappointment. There was so much craftsmanship on the outside, I had hoped the inside would be just as impressive, but it wasn't at all.
A praise for you and Kevin. I want to thank you both for being so gracious in responding to comments or questions whether they are public or private. I know you both are extremely busy people but you still take the time.
Thank you Sandy for recognizing and mentioning it! It’s a lot of work, but we appreciate everyone being here and engaging! Well…. Almost everyone 🤣
I'm not knocking your video at all as you always do an amazing job, Laine but I wish you would have narrated the room by room tour instead of having the music because I always enjoy your insight into the different architectural details and your explanation of what each room was used for. Great video as always, I just missed your narration and expertise.
When you have a very nice realtor following you around wanting to chat in every room it makes it a little hard to do every. He is an amazing agent, but it was hard to keep him out of the shots and I couldn’t do as much narration as I’d have liked.
@@OurRestorationNation That makes total sense. Thank you for the explanation, Laine. You always do a magnificent job with these real estate tours.
What’s the total living rooms bedrooms kitchens and bathrooms? I lost count
Thanks for taking us with to this Stunning property! Y’all are Amazing 💋
That's a beautiful home. With Lots of potential
Can’t believe this is under 400k$ 😮
This video was so great! Love how you showed the other beautiful homes in the area, especially the FLW’s!
I love this house. There's nor many I don't love. These bathrooms are my absolute favorite.
Beautiful home!
I think, I would search the attic, basement and outbuildings with a fine toothed comb. Because I suspect, that the two huge, single pane windows, one in the dining room, one in the livingroom, might have originally had glass mosaic motifs, corresponding to the little ones, you find in all of the french doors...
Hello from Indianapolis! I absolutely LOVE your delivery. It's so peaceful to listen to your voice and I learn so much about architecture. ALWAYS look forward to your tours. Best wishes!
Fantastic. Now if only it came with some land, maybe 10 acres or so
It sold for $285,000.00! What a deal!
The house is breathtaking on the outside. The three ceilings are beautiful but confusing in combination. Surprisingly plain bathrooms, mantels, and interior rchitectural detail, such as servant call panels, original light fixtures, detailed radiators, built-ins and kitchen and bathroom cabinetry. However, the home is pristine and transitions flawlessly into today's housing needs and expectations...even the plain white subway tile fits with today's HGTV detor.. Looks like an enviable neighborhood of large, well maintained, gracious mature homes. Unbelievable price.
I love all the tile work! This house I think would make an amazing bed and breakfast. 💖💜💖
Loved the video. Missed the conversation and opinions on the rooms and what you might do with them. Beautiful home and neighborhood. Hopefully it will find the perfect buyer.🤗❤️🤍💙
As a Southerner who loves older homes, I could not imagine buying a home that has not been updated with central heat and air. I suppose that is why it is listed at such a tremendous price. Lot of beautiful "rabbit warren" style rooms. Enjoyable video. thank you!
Oh wow I saved this house on Zillow, Glad they have a video to see more.
If I'm remembering correctly, there is a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Decatur as well.
It’s one of the ones we drove past at the end of the video. Just behind this one.
I think it was in the video. I thought I saw it
I don't know why...😬👻...but this house totally gave me the creeps!!! Right from the get-go in the front hall! Like there are spooky ghosts all over this house! Did anyone else get that feeling? How did ya'll feel walking around in it? (Kevin & Laine 😉)
I felt great in the midst of this amazing space.
@@OurRestorationNation Maybe I'm just too into the halloween spirit this year then!
No, usually I can pick up on things like that but it felt like a happy home to me? Thank you both for taking us round, its a beauty.
Agreed!
What a beautiful piece of history!
Beautiful home, love all the vintage bathrooms! The architecture of the exterior is magnificent, and the price Is unbelievable! I love it!
It has a lot of potential in the right hands. Hard to believe that price! You can’t even find a shack here on Maui for that. I once lived in a neighborhood like this in Seattle. Large homes, a mix of styles like this neighborhood, earliest built in 1880s most built in 1920s, all lovingly maintained. Was cool to see some Prairie Style, along with Colonial Revival, Arts and Crafts, and others. The last one you showed, the Italianate in Milliken Place looked like the oldest of the bunch, maybe 1870s? There is a similar one on the campus of Chico State University in California, called the Bidwell Mansion that was built in 1868.
I love the house. Yet lost count at how many baths?
I have to comment on the photography, Kevin you get better with each video. You do such a great job.
Thank you Penny!!!
This is gorgeous. I could drop everything and move there! Just curious - was all that woodwork originally painted like that?
The yellow under eaves threw me. 😂
Much of the interior woodwork was originally stained; most has since been painted. We started taking some of it back to the original (see solarium).
With the harsh Illinois winters; we are looking at $1000 per month just in heating bills.
I wonder if the plumbing is in good condition.
What a gorgeous old house. It’s in good enough condition that you could live in it and just renovate one room at a time, depending on the plumbing and electric as well as the foundation and roof.
Omg! My husband and I graduated from Millikin University, me in 1976 and he in1978. I wonder if we came across this house on our tracks around Decatur. If we were younger we would definitely covet this house! Thank you for this!
Beautiful house. I can't get over how many bathrooms are in this house! Yes, it needs some work and I wonder how much of the wood work had been painted rather than left natural. Oh well, nice area nut too far north for me. By the way, very nice blouse you were wearing too. ÷)
This is a beautiful home thank you Kevin and Lainey
What you get for your money is absolutely stunning, I am in South East Michigan, and 339k here gets you about 2,500 S.F., half brick half sided. It could be a beautiful bed and breakfast, with all the rooms, and living quarters, and baths. New Hvac would cost a fortune, there is obviously no duct work, for heating or cooling, must be a big boiler for all of the radiators in each room, just a beautiful design on the outside, it seems very well kept, besides some aging on windows and such, put this in S.E. Michigan near a lake, it`s 1.5 - 2M no problem at all, the price amazes me.
I’ve watched this twice now, each time I notice more fantastic detail. I hope this house gets a buyer. That price is unbelievable. Is there any reason for it selling for so little? ❤
Lovely but the Midwest ! No I’m a south east girl , will never consider anything but the south and south east ! The DNA of old Virginia and the eastern southern States is too deep ! Now if could just move this beauty to the Shenandoah Valley VA ! ❤️🥰😄😄😄😄
Um , upon watching this just briefly though expertly photographed the proportions are not as impressive as some of the finishes ! The plaster work snd molding need a more impressive ceiling height and larger rooms ! I get it but it wouldn’t be my cup of tea ! I like more of this channels Mississippi mansions and others I’ve seen here ! But that me ! ❤️❗️❤️❗️
I have had this house on my saved homes tab on Zillow for months! Wild to see a video tour.
Glad we could be of service
Months? Can’t believe it hasn’t sold!!!
This would make a wonderful multigenerational home. I'm so glad all of that amazing tile was left intact. And personally, I love those vintage bathrooms.
Still catching up with some of your older videos, but wanted to ask when you did the walk through did you go WOW? The price seems rather low for a house this size? Was this place once a bed and breakfast? Each of the bedrooms have their own bathrooms.
Lovely house, but where is the narration? I always learn something when you describe the house and really enjoy your comments. Thank you for the tour though.
Same type of architecture as a Reed College here in Portland Oregon. The brick facade and the surrounding White framing. Beautiful!
My instant reaction is - why is it so low price ??? This is a gorgeous place, full of lovely features, and the possibilities are incredible - so what is the problem ? Is it the neighborhood ? Is there some kind of problem with the water, or something odd going on - that is $1mill home in most places !
Three units is very smart. Families are much smaller todayso converting house to three units common sense. Excellent condition.
This house sold for well below the asking price. Property taxes on this property run around $8,000 a year.
Interesting, no chandelier in the dining room?? Love your architectural examination of each home you tour for us! Keep up the great videos guys!
$340,000 can buy you 2 bedroom condo in Manila add $20,000 for 1 parking spot
One foot higher ceilings would make a big difference two feet higher would transform this house.
I hope some ass doesn't buy this beautiful house and modernize it.
This is a prime example of when people had taste.
New Kitchen and baths will needed and there is a lot of them loll. Beautiful outside, but very confusing inside.
Architecture amazingly beautiful, decoration suck, no taste at all ,look dated and ogly, but at least should be safe
I wonder why it is so cheap? Especially in such a beautiful neighborhood! It would easily be 2 mil in my area. Just gorgeous!!
Decatur is a low cost real estate market. Although, I think that is starting to change as more folks have the ability to work remotely and/or are choosing to cash out of high priced markets.
IF I COULD AFFORD THIS, I WOULD BE OPENING IT UP FOR QUILTING RETREATS. I WOULD HAVE EVERYTHING QUILTING.
Wow! What a fabulous home and neighborhood ❤️
Me in California like God thats a beautiful home 🏡 😍 I love this style one day I will get my dream home like this
Magnificent place! Seem like it goes on forever! So many awesome details! We live only 100 miles from Decatur. Thanks again fro another amazing video/home.
wowowoowo can you say wowowoow!
Come on now why the heck can't this happen where l live? USA is so cheap!!!!
I had to do a double take when the music started playing. How To Renovate A Chateau (without killing your partner) plays that song as their theme song? (Theme song?? Is that what you would call it??) Anyway, I was confused for a hot second. 😁
As always, beautiful home! ❤️
Oh really? I didn’t know that.
I cant even imagine having to deal with the historic society each time I need to maintence the home
Amazing price. Here in Texas, that price wont get you anything close to this gorgeous house.
Move this house to my area and you'd be able to ask $5 MILLION for it!
That house is beautiful, how is it so cheap?? I kept waiting for something to be in bad shape. I wish it wasn't so far from my family!!
The Decatur metro area is one of the lowest priced real estate markets in the country.
@@AlanDuesterhaus But the question is WHY ? Those of us just seeing this area via Toutube can't understand the problem - but SOMETHING is holding the prices down.
@@veronicaroach3667 market dynamics. There used to be a Firestone plant that had 2,000+ employees along with other manufacturing which left. As a result, a glut of housing which drove down prices.
@@AlanDuesterhaus We are hoping to see it on Friday. Coming from WI.
@@bradleonhardt4051 we are working to confirm an offer so it may be under contract by then.
In the windows are room AC units, I wonder what it would cost and what it would do to the spaces in the house to refit with central heat and AC, because those window units are just ugly. The kitchen seems to be of a size for a modest tract home but an odd shape and in need of modernization, hardly in keeping with a mansion with such a gigantic dining room and entertaining spaces. I would look at repurposing the solarium adjoining the kitchen into a larger and modern kitchen and then using the old kitchen for a large walk in pantry/butler's pantry, and maybe even a larger laundry space since it has existing electrical and plumbing. Hope I am not hurting anyone's feelings when I say the window treatments are so working class dime store from the 1950's. Second kitchen problems, gas stub capped off and just poking out through the wall, nice for your shins if you are feeling your way in the dark, crack in middle of the floor, possible structural issue, fridge right up against the heating register and does not make sense since the wall could accommodate three fridges as large except for that cheap bookcase that needs to go, grout badly in need of steam cleaning, center island too large for the space, and the baths, I am just not enamoured of that 1920'/30's tile look, especially 100 years later when you have so many cracked tiles. In all it is cold and uninviting, too clinical like a sanitorium where they use to do unspeakable things to patients. The place has a ton of potential but would cost a ton to bring it back to glory. If you love that town and love the neighborhood and happen to have hit the lottery this would be a great house. Otherwise for the vast majority of us it would just be a money pit, and if you have that kind of money why would you not build new on a large bit of land?
I love the exterior of this house... the inside not so much except for that Jacobean ceiling room..