Historic House Blog

The New York Times occasionally incudes a real estate feature called, “What Can You Get For . . .?”, in which it profiles sample houses for sale across the nation, and explores how “much” house you can get at a certain price in several different states. 
This week, they did a piece called ”What Can You Get For $350,000?,” and featured a striking & stately Neo-classical/Colonial [...]

We’ve written before about “preserving” historic homes through subdivision (for a look at some of these cases, see our article “‘Preserving’ Historic Estates Through Subdivision?”).  Usually, this process involves cutting up a large tract of land (usually a historic farmstead) for the purpose of building a new subdivision, with development approval hinging on a caveat that the developer [...]