(Almost) every week on this blog, we highlight a historic property that captures our attention. Each Listing of the Week is currently offered for sale and listed on our sponsor website, www.HistoricHomesMarketplace.com. We hope that you will not only enjoy a look at a beautiful antique property, but you might even pick up some marketing ideas for selling your historic listing. Today, we feature “SawMill”- an 18th Century Pennsylvania Stone House.
This one caught my eye right away . . . what curb appeal! If you love the charm, character and mystique of the 18th century, but still want all the upscale amenities and convenience of a modern lifestyle, then 3314 Saw Mill will not disappoint!
The owner/contractor of this stunning home has painstakingly preserved the “Old World “craftsmanship of the original 18th century farmhouse and seamlessly blended in the updated designer touches that today’s buyers crave and expect. The farmhouse and its “Wrap Around” addition feature over 4500 (A) square feet of living space. The main floor features an “Open Floor” plan with a seamless flow between the “Grand” kitchen, cozy living room, dining room and the light filled five sided breakfast nook. The upper floor features 4 bedrooms plus an oversized “Master Suite” complete with a walk-in tumbled marble shower and an 
exceptionally large walk-in closet. The finished lower level contains a granite topped bar, wine cellar, game room and media area.
At $849,900, 3314 Sawmill is one of the best values in Newtown Square today. This property is listed by Dan Krzywicki of Fox & Roach Realtors. To see more photos of this unique property, get links to a virtual tour of this home, to contact Dan Krzywicki, or just to browse other historic homes for sale, please visit this property listing on our sponsor website, www.HistoricHomesMarketplace.com.
A FREE workshop on historic house research is to be held at the Birmingham Public Library on Saturday, July 18th. Sponsored by the Jefferson County Historical Commission & the Birmingham Historical Society, the event will feature 3 speakers and 2 authors who will be signing books. The event starts at 9:30am, at the Central Library (in Arrington Auditorium). Seems like a great chance for historic homeowners or Realtors who list historic properties to find out how to discover the history of their properties. For more, check out the article at 
A 142-year-old, Italianate-turned-Victorian historic house was just demolished in Smithland, Kentucky this week. The Dunn-Cherry House, built in 1867, was razed by town officials to make way for a new office building & library on the site. 
As the house 
Today, while on my 
So anyway, it seems like kind of an odd juxtoposition, if you think about it– People using this cutting-edge, electronic, ephemeral communication medium to discuss (”tweet”!) about historic houses, which could be considered the epitome of massive construction, enduring construction, old-fashioned ideas, hands-on hard work, and simple strength. But sure enough, the two come together everyday on Twitter! 
This coming Saturday, the historical society in 
Dusenberry, has long been associated with the Capt. William Billups family of Port Haywood. Renovations on the home began early this year and are ongoing to transform the home’s historic aspects into an inn with modern-day conveniences.
Every week on this blog, we highlight a historic property that captures our attention. Each Listing of the Week is currently offered for sale and listed on our sponsor website, 
Stately and welcoming, this elegantly restored Greek Revival was built around 1848 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It sits in the Limington Village Historic District in Southern Maine, surrounded by 23 other homes and buildings that contribute to the historic area. The house is located close to area shops, restaurants, lakes, and rivers (including the famous and impressive Limington Rapids on the Saco River). The Dimock House has many original features intact, including original doors and hardware, moldings, pine floors, lighting fixtures, and the main stairway.
The house offers 3650 square feet of living space, 4 bedrooms and 1.5 baths 0n 2.5 beautiful acres. A new Buderus 5-zone furnace was installed in 2004 and the kitchen and baths have also been recently remodelled. All rooms have had plaster repaired and finished off, and have been newly painted. Flowers by a master gardener are planted in perennial gardens everywhere around the property, and stone walls add a delightful New England country accent and historic feel as well. 
The spacious, high-ceilinged rooms make this is a beautiful home for those who love to entertain. The large first and second floor porches are the signature features of the house, and add wonderful spaces for relaxing or entertaining. Pride of ownership does indeed show throughout this home. With the distinctive porches, the delightful garden landscaping, and the recent updates, the Henry Dimock House is one you’ll be proud to own, too ! The Dimock House is listed by Linda Griffin of Pleasant River Properties, and more details are available at the 
Joe Yocius, “Low Country Joe,” a long-time Re/Max Realtor on Daufuskie Island in South Carolina has been Keeper of the Bloody Point Light for the last ten years. He has decided to pass along the Lighthouse and its 126-year legacy along to a new generation. The light house and the surrounding 2.7 acres are up for sale for $875,000. Joe hopes, in his words, that the new owners will
The combination lighthouse/keeper’s house was built in 1883, and designed to provide mariners with a starboard reference on their way into the channel to the Savannah River. The lighthouse does not exactly look the part. No tall tower with a rotating beacon- just a front dormer with a large window in which was hung a powerful red kerosene lantern. The builder of the light, Mt. Vernon Ohio native John Doyle, also became the light’s first keeper (earning $660 a year salary). There were four keepers for the light, including Robert Augustus Sisson (pictured at right with his wife, Martha). The house was moved inland about a half mile in 1899 due to erosion. The house continued to serve as the keeper’s cottage, but the light was put atop a steel tower closer to the coast. The lights were extinguished for good and the station shut down in1922.
It is almost that time of year again, as 
Visitors to the event can also attend several interesting (and free!) workshops that may interest any old house lover, including “Paint Practices for Historic Structures,” “The Well-Dressed Bed: From blankets to bed hangings, bolsters to bed skirts, explore the possibilities,” “Designing a Kitchen for the Historic Home,” “Creating a Rufus Porter Scene” (folk art for walls & floorcloths), “Architectural Styles in New England: Colonial Period through Mid-19th Century” (featuring Ed Hood from 
Every week on this blog, we highlight a historic property that captures our attention. Each Listing of the Week is currently offered for sale and listed on our sponsor website, 
Harmony Hall has been integral part of the South Easton Massachusetts community. Recorded construction dates to 1752. But local history suggests it may pre-date that. Once used as a support building for the local foundry industries, this brick gabled beauty has served as a meeting hall, school, music center and base of operations for a multitude of civic organizations. The house was recently purchased from the local American Legion chapter by Robert and Joanne Carroll in 2006, who embarked on a complete restoration finished in 2008.
Along with a four season room and garage addition, the first floor renovations include a huge open kitchen with the best of the best appliances and fixtures. The first floor master and laundry, along with the smaller baby’s room or office are just down a short hall past the powder room. The covered front entry brings you into a warm brick walled foyer. From the garage end, off the four season room, there is another covered (farmers) porch, connecting to the mud-room and hall closet. The Main house is wide open space 33′ x 40′ with a 13′ high barrel vaulted ceiling. This massive room is subtly divided to allow a more formal living area, or could remain open for true family living. When you enter the home from any direction you are immediately greeted with the warm colors and original brick masonry gables.
The hall’s purported connection to the original Foundry operation seemed to be confirmed when in the course of the renovations Robert found 75 caliper iron balls in the dirt. In the early 19th-century, the hall evolved to become a meeting place and focal point for the Furnace Brook Village part of town. By the 1840s the foundry had discontinued using the building and in the 1860s, high school classes were offered at the hall one term a year for students in the area to better their education.
Based on stories passed down through generations, the hall takes its current name “Harmony Hall” from the singing school that occupied the building as well as a brass band that practiced there in the first half of the 19th century. A women’s literary society called the Outlook Club took over the building from 1888 until at least the 1970s when the Legion bought the property. For more on the property’s history, check out the 
The owners of the historic Otis Briggs House are looking for a buyer to purchase and relocate the house. The Victorian Eastlake-style house stands behind Steve’s Sports Den at 145 Centre Street in downtown Middleboro, Massachusetts and is on the proposed site of a new mixed use commercial and apartment building. The developer of the project, Robert Saquet, manager of 
The house is named for Otis Briggs, a prominent and successful horse dealer and stable keeper who built the house in 1876. Briggs ran his business out of stables on the same property as the house and lived here until his death in 1911. Briggs’ business slowed down with the advent of the automobile and Briggs took down the stables in 1907.
The 2 1/2 story house retains many original architectural details common to many upper middle class houses in the late 19th-century. The wide front porch has the original bracketed wooden arch work with pendant finials and the broad overhanging eaves feature unique Eastlake-style double brackets. The original front double doors with their large glass panes and original letter drop remain. The interior features a main staircase with turned balusters and a solid walnut newell post and railings, and functioning pocket doors. There is even an indoor outhouse remaining in the rear ell of the house.
The details in the porch and the front facade of the house can be seen from the side of the building where the house was joined to a commercial building in the 1920s. The house has been unoccupied for nearly 60 years, and most recently used for retail space and storage for Steve’s Sports Den. The house appears to be in rough condition, but Saquet describes it as “solid and structurally compact” and is confident that it would survive a move. The Middleboro Historic Commission ordered a demolition delay to create time to find a potential purchaser who would move the structure. The 18-month delay will expire in December of 2010, and if nobody steps forward to the move the house, Saquet will demolish the Briggs house to clear the way for his project.
