Historic House Blog

I’ve driven by this house a couple of times, filled full of envy, so I had to do a quick feature on this one after I noticed it was for sale on another blog, Hooked on Houses.  Renee Zellweger’s historic property in Pomfret, Connecticut has hit the market with an asking price of $1.5M.  It’s [...]

“Preservation Nation,” the blog of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, recently featured a remarkable property for sale in Germantown (Philadelphia), PA.  Though it’s dubbed “The Clarkson-Watson House,” the property at 5275 Germantown Avenue has a couple of even higher-profile names attached . . . Jefferson & Washington.

In East Hampton, NY, located at 223 Main Street, is a remarkable property offered for sale by owner.  This unique house, which at first glance could be mistaken for a more recent, Shingle-style vacation home, was likely built in 1718 and has thus witnessed nearly three centuries of history in East Hampton village.  The house [...]

It’s Hall of Fame Weekend in Cooperstown, New York!  Yes, and every baseball fan knows what that means:  a few of baseball’s best players ever will be forever enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, with their bronze plaques added to the hallowed “Gallery” honoring the game’s greatest like Babe Ruth, Cy Young, Mickey Mantle, [...]

A classified-style listing (for sale by owner) on eBay offers the former home of Governor John J. Crittenden (1787-1863).  Crittenden was not just a prominent figure in Kentucky; he was also a nationally-known politician during the antebellum era.  In addition to being Kentucky’s 17th governor, John Crittenden represented Kentucky in both the U.S. House of [...]

Looking for a one-of-a-kind, super-cool historic property with ties to legendary American history?  This property, sometimes called “The Christian Byers Farm & Civil War Hospital,” is located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania–  the site of the famous “turning point”  battle of the U.S. Civil War.  And as you can tell from the name, the farm actually played [...]

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 really drove into town, feeling we didn’t have time to casually “explore” on such a long trip.  But had I [...]

Historic homes with interesting stories attached to them can elicit excitement & emotional attachment with potential buyers.  Historic homes with stories linking them to Revolutionary War heroes actually get press coverage.  This eight-room, circa 1790  Gambrel style home in Portsmouth, RI, (Aquidneck Island) is reputed to have once been a hiding place for General Lafayette [...]

In Eutaw, Alabama, a magnificent & restored Greek Revival plantation home (circa 1852) is now for sale. The antebellum estate — called “Everhope” — was long known as “Twin Oaks” until the actual twin oaks suffered their demise due to unlucky acts of nature.  The property is also known as the Captain Nathan Carpenter House  [...]

We usually stick to American topics here on HHB–  but, wow, this property “across the pond” really caught my eye. Up for auction on November 23rd in the U.K. is this incredible, post-Tudor, sandstone block property, which is “reputed to be one of the oldest houses in Wirral,” dating to the year 1627.  Yeah . . . that’s [...]