Having a historic home can sometimes mean having a drafty home. After all, the property is most likely 100+ years old, right? Here are 10 awesome ways that you can weatherize your historic home.
Do you have any tips for weatherizing historic homes? If so, pass them along!
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[10 on Tuesday] 10 Ways to Weatherize Your Historic Home.
River Mill is one of the oldest manufacturing mills in North Carolina and has seen many transitions in it’s lifetime which has spanned the decades! From the first recorded use in 1855 this mill has had many uses including granite mill, powder making factory during the Revolutionary War, paper mill, cotton mill and lastly an incredible restoration in the mid-80s turning the old mill into condos.
This 23 acre site bounded by the Neuse River and Falls Lake is rich in wildlife, tranquility, history and natural beauty. The backdrop of the dam and falls provides natural beauty beyond compare. There are three separate buildings that comprise River Mill; The Annex, The Mill and The Woods. Opportunities are rare to own a condo within these buildings.
River Mill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Just a few of the amenities offered are shared flower and herb gardens, outdoor grills, gazebo, horseshoes, basketball goal, and plenty of parking!
For more information regarding these rare opportunities within River Mill please feel free to call me or simply send me an email – I would be delighted to help! It is so easy for me to set up an alert should a unit become available – they go FAST!
Other Notable Neighborhoods in Wake Forest NC:
THERE IS CURRENTLY ONE HISTORIC CONDO FOR SALE!
This opportunity does not come along often so if you are interested please give me a call and we can get an appointment scheduled!
1500 RIVER MILL DRIVE
WAKE FOREST 27587
$ 197,000
2 BEDROOMS
2 FULL BATHROOMS
1 HALF BATHROOMS
934 SQUARE FEET (HEATED)
MLS # 1819953
Wake Forest NC is rich with history and along with that comes gorgeous architecture that reflects a period in time when homes were showcases and masterpieces. There is a diverse mixture of architectural styles in historic Wake Forest NC that range from Victorian to Georgian style. The majority of the historic homes in Wake Forest have been lovingly cared for and kept up to standards with the Historic Guidelines set forth by the Wake Forest NC Historic Commission in conjunction with the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office.
If you are interested in exploring some of the historic homes for sale in Wake Forest NC you can check out a few of the offerings at the end of this post. Also, for more information on the Historic Guidelines, historic home rehabilitation or Tax Credits that may be available I would like to point you to “What’s YOUR Circa?“. There you can find a bevy of information to help you decide if a historic home is right for you! You can easily search for information via the Categories on the right hand side of the blog and, as always, you can certainly email me with any questions that you may have! Again, that link is What’s YOUR Circa?
In the meantime, here is a quick video with some examples of what you can find by way of historic homes in Wake Forest NC. Don’t forget to peek below the video for some great historic homes for sale in Wake Forest NC!
Lands End - Melville, NY
The Estate that is rumored to be the inspiration for the classic novel “The Great Gatsby” is slated for demolition later this month. While many attempts were made to sell the estate there was little to no interest given the amount of additional funds that would have been required to restore the property.
By Emily C. Dooley Newsday
MELVILLE, N.Y. — The once-grand white house watches over Long Island Sound from the tip of Sands Point, its days numbered.
Lands End, the 25-room Colonial Revival mansion that local lore says was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s inspiration for Daisy Buchanan’s home in “The Great Gatsby” faces demolition this month.
In the 1920s and ’30s, Winston Churchill, the Marx Brothers and Ethel Barrymore attended parties there. Fitzgerald was perched on the back deck, drinking in the view. Rooms featured marble, parquet and wide wood-planked floors, Palladian windows and hand-painted wallpaper.
Now, the front door is off its hinges, wood floors have been torn up for salvage, windows are missing and the two-story Doric columns are unsteady.
Sands Point Village in January approved plans to raze the house and divide the site into lots for five custom homes starting at $10 million each.
Lands End is the latest Gold Coast estate to fall. With each demolition, the North Shore loses more of its gilded past, when sea breezes and social events attracted the rich and famous. Historians say hundreds of the mansions have been lost in the past 50 years as owners faced increasing taxes and high maintenance costs.
“The cost to renovate these things is just so overwhelming that people aren’t interested in it,” said Clifford Fetner, president of Jaco Builders in Hauppauge, N.Y., and Lands End project construction manager. “The value of the property is the land.”
Please continue to “Gatsby” Place Joins Doomed Mansions list by Emily C. Dooley to read her article in it’s entirety.
It is rare that a unit in historic River Mill becomes available and when they do – DON’T BLINK or they are snatched up! 
Well, not only is there a historic condo available it is absolutely gorgeous with a completely remodeled kitchen that has stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and beautiful cabinetry, a remodeled bath with granite counters and a custom, granite tile shower, dramatic 13′ ceilings with exposed beams and floor to ceiling windows that allows the light to bounce artfully off of the exposed stone walls. But guess what? It gets better!
THIS UNIT IS RIVERSIDE! Yes, you can wake up every morning to scenic views of the river and be lulled to sleep every night by the gentle sounds of the river flowing gently past.
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You can certainly gain a perspective of the incredibly rich history of the mill at River Mill, Wake Forest NC – Live In History! For more information on this available unit please feel free to email me or call me at 919-649-6128 – I would love to answer any questions you may have!
I receive so many comments on my posts regarding Historic Homes for Sale in Wake Forest NC and the surrounding areas from people seeking more information and/or pictures. I also receive requests for more information about the area. I would love to be able to provide information to each and every inquiry but it is difficult when there is not an email address provided nor any other means of contact.
So, please, if you are interested in historic homes in Wake Forest please provide me with a way to contact you in your comments.
Stay tuned for some upcoming posts showing what is currently available – some extraordinary homes for sure!
101 S. Elm Street is listed for an adjusted price of just $120,000.00 and is being auctioned. Some outstanding details to note:
Feel free to call me or email me with any questions or to set an appointment to see this majestic home!
I thought this was an incredible story about a piece of history that was discovered AFTER Katrina. The Beauvoir house in Biloxi, Mississippi! Here is the article from CNN ……
photo courtesy of galenfrysinger.com
“You can’t miss Beauvoir as you drive along scenic U.S. Highway 90 through Biloxi, Mississippi. Its grand staircase, with the railings scrolling outward, welcomes you like open arms.
The front porch wraps around the entire front of the home, supported by regal white pillars, common during the antebellum period.
It’s the kind of front porch where you can envision someone sitting in a rocking chair with a glass of iced tea, as the breeze from the beach offers the only respite from a humid August afternoon.
When Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi’s coastal areas, the storm tore up the home. But it also peeled back a little slice of history about Beauvoir that might never have been known otherwise.
Beauvoir was the last home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.”
You can read the rest of the article here……. The before and after shots are simply amazing!
From Preservation Nation……
On July 30, the House passed a major package of energy and oil spill provisions dubbed the CLEAR Act. Why is this good news for preservationists? The legislation contains a provision that would fully fund the Historic Preservation Fund at its entire authorized level of $150 million. Not since its inception in 1976 has the Historic Preservation Fund received full funding to carry out the provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act. In fact, since 2001, appropriations have declined from $94 million to less than $80 million.
What this provision means is that all funds collected from Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing (the source of revenue for the Historic Preservation Fund) would be dedicated to supporting national preservation programs. Now, imagine for just a moment what great preservation work our movement will accomplish with full funding of $150 million. I’m normally not an exclamation mark kind of a guy, but wow!
Then and Now
The following excerpt is from a FOX news article. To read the story in its entirity please follow the link at the end. There is also a Facebook Fan Page – Save Lynnewood Hall for those of you interested in following the story.
“Lynnewood Hall, a century-old stunner of a building just outside Philadelphia, silently, almost invisibly, languishes 200 feet beyond a two-lane blacktop road like a crumbling little Versailles.
The graceful fountain that welcomed hundreds of well-heeled visitors, President Franklin Roosevelt among them, was dismantled and sold years ago. Its once meticulously sculpted French gardens are overgrown with weeds and vines. The classical Indiana limestone facade may have lost its luster but its poise still remains — at least from the other side of rusted wrought iron gates that keep the curious at bay.
Like other Gilded Age palaces of the nation’s pre-Depression industrial titans, Lynnewood Hall is a relic of a bygone era facing an uncertain future. Will it befall the same fate as neighboring Whitemarsh Hall, the demolished mansion of banking magnate Edward Stotesbury? Or will it be returned to former glory, like industrialist Alfred I. duPont’s former Nemours Mansion in Delaware?
“It’s a tragedy that people drive past Lynnewood Hall and don’t know what it is, or don’t even notice it’s there,” said Stephen J. Barron, who runs a website and Facebook group aiming to drum up interest in the mansion’s plight. “It breaks my heart and it bothers me. The house is a work of art.”
Long before its current humble predicament, Lynnewood Hall was home to the uber-wealthy Widener family and called “the last of the American Versailles.”
Please following this link to FOX news for the complete article.
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