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I think they tried to keep to the home's original era but I don't really see anything Craftsman specific.
I think it has some Craftsman elements. They would be more obvious if the woodwork had been stained and not painted. Overall, I would call it a bungalow. Can't believe some people said it's a shack, or even a shotgun house.
I'd call it a mill workers shack that someone added a nice porch to.
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But there is NO WAY it's worth the implied prices shown on the link.
Somewhere south of $100,000 ... maybe south of $60,000.
That all depends...I can't tell you what the house would sell for in Atlanta. I could guess what it would go for in differing neighborhoods of Raleigh, and its a wide range...
I was hoping for a consensus on what to call them. Maybe "historic mill cottage" or "historic cottage" would work best. They were all originally built for local mill workers (and now selling for 500-600K).
"Historic Mill Cottage" does have a nice ring to it. You can just feel the history coming thru the title, and start to imagine the people who have lived there.[/quote]
The term "mill house" has a connotation to it in the south, though, and while not horrible per se, not exactly a good connotation either.
I once was speaking to a rental agent here in Raleigh about the demolition of a development of what I would almost call a "tiny house" and he referred to them as "mill houses."
The terms "Craftsman," "Row House," "Bungalow," etc, all have very slightly different meanings in different parts of the country.
A "Row House" means something different if your talking about Charleston and New Orleans.
"Bungalow" in Chicago is a brick house with a hipped roof, 1 1/2 stories above a basement, a porch with steps ascending from the street, and usually a porch enclosed with brick to create a front room (pronounced frunchroom.)
Yeah, if only we all wanted to live where there is a ton of lake-effect snow, ice, etc.. As they say, not only is all politics local, all real estate is local, too.
Historic mill cottage is perfect. It's not really a Craftsman, or a bungalow, or a Victorian.
That is one hell of a lot of money. In the upscale Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, full of doctors, lawyers, and Northwestern University professors, this is what you get for $600K:
And, for those familiar with my area, that house is not in the cheaper African American part of Evanston. It is just around the corner from my house, in an elite area.
Wow, why is it so danged expensive? It looks like what used to be a $50,000 to $75,000 house not that long ago. I must have fallen asleep in a time capsule, lol. I mean it's kind of cute, but not all that. The housing market has lost it's mind.
Wow, why is it so danged expensive? It looks like what used to be a $50,000 to $75,000 house not that long ago. I must have fallen asleep in a time capsule, lol. I mean it's kind of cute, but not all that. The housing market has lost it's mind.
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