Heading out to ShopRite this morning, this hand-painted sign at the side of the road caught my attention.
The only brick mansion in the area that I knew of is the Joab Center House, the early 18th-century house built for Captain Joab Center and his wife, Eunice Jenkins Center, which is known familiarly as the Turtle House. A little detour off Fairview Avenue confirmed that was indeed the house.
The house went on the market in February 2020, a few months after the death of its owner, Zane Studenroth. The original asking price was $450,000.
In August 2020, Zillow indicated that the price had dropped to $349,000, and there was a pending offer on the house.
Columbia County assessment records indicate that Peter Schram bought the house in September 2020 for $250,000. (Studenroth had purchased the house in 1998 for $175,000.) We can assume that it is Schram who. eleven months later, is now selling the house.
The house is looking better today than it has in a while, but sadly the restoration of the front veranda ignores the evidence from these photographs the 1934 Historic Building Survey.
The historic photos show that the base of the veranda followed the arc of the roof, and the railing was curved, with stairs at one side. These photos very likely provide evidence of how the house was originally meant to be.
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Approaching that sign yesterday, I assumed a tag sale was nearby. Who tries to sell a house with a sign like that? Their ought to be a law.
ReplyDelete"There ought to be a law," very telling.
DeleteSchram is a flipper
ReplyDeleteAs one drives northward on Harry Howard Ave past HHS you arrive at the intersection w Joslen Blvd.
ReplyDeleteAt the stop sign and directly across the street one will see two stone columns at the head of a driveway.
At one time that was the entrance/exit for the aka Turtle House.