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yes...I think you can get historic registry help and they require things be done properly to period.

sounds fine to me, I'm a big believer in preserving most old architecture.

there are a lot around here....in the posher areas...when they go on market, it's at a premium.

Onyx did great with hers (they did buy the old Victorian did they not?)

Those digs here would be 3-4 times the price in a swank area.

My dad almost bought an antebellum home between Mufreesboro and Nashville (it had a name...they all do..lol) in 1986 or so. It was around 6000 sq ft with 120 acres and went for about 700K. That same home now would be 3.5-5M

And that property was in great shape.

My mom looked at a Victorian 3 story with attic and huge basement on Main St in Murfreesboro (Murfreesboro is to Nashville what Canton is to Jackson)...Main St is really nice....an historic district....about 10,000 sq ft in decent shape....the heirs were fighting. She was afraid of too much house...had an elevator. I told here we could all live in it..lol

It went for 350K about 6 years ago....a steal bigtime. If that happened today....I would buy it and commute. Helluva house.

They made a nice B&B of it.

Yes, mine is a Victorian that served as the Military
Park'

The Vicksburg men who are doing the actual s headquarters
for 30 years and the MP has a whole display case dedicated to my house.

They want to erect a monument in the yard, describing the house's importance,
and they want me to apply to have the house listed on the National Historic Registry. All in good time.

Two home grown Vicksburg sons are doing the exterior restoration
for me and they delight in discovering things from the 1880's...
like the stepping stones that they uncovered under the
foliage growth that were used by the carriages when
folks were dropped off at the house along with the steel post
that was used to tie the horses. It's all still there in it's original state.

Thanks to the MP's display, we now know that my house
had two extra entrances and a second floor balcony that
they will replace.

The interior is to die for... all the windows are hand
blown glass... they have survived for 122 years.

The Italian marble mantles for the seven fireplaces are exquisitely hand carved and they came from the builder's Antebellum mansion down on Pearl Street. He build my house for his daughter and spared no expense. Original crystal chandeliers hand in the drawing room and parlors. We look at living in this house as a privilege.