At Architectural Classics one of our favourite pastimes is searching through antique homes for sale, and drooling, and then quickly hopping onto netbanking and seeing if anybody died and left us several million dollars to buy one with! Actually, I probably shouldn’t speak for the rest of our very well-balanced staff, but that is one of my many weaknesses! One of those that I’ve been looking at lately is a Victorian period style home in Fredonia, Kansas.

This home was built in 1900, and has some beautiful features like parquetry in the hall and stairs, some beautiful low ceilings with exposed flat contrast-painted beams, as well as a half-octagonal porch that looks perfect for sipping mint juleps ;-), and calling to the servants to bring another! Or perhaps, in this day and age, I should be calling to the children or husband .

The gorgeous (elm?) tree out the front looks like it is at least as old as the house is, and seems to be in good nick still. The storm cellar door just behind the tree sets a tape playing in my head … “Dorothy?  Dorothy! Oh dear, Henry I can’t find Dorothy!” . If you look closely, you’ll see that the glass in the porch door is either original, or a very shonky modern job - the reflection of the barn looks as if it is underwater.

The Victorian style home is set on 4 acres, enough for you to go out to feed the hogs and chickens in the nude, if you so desired (well, I consider it an important feature of houses that I might buy!), and there are a total of four outbuildings listed. The types of all of them aren’t specified, so while one is a four car garage, and another is an original carriagehouse, I cannot guarantee that the other two aren’t the toilets!

There is a white picket area where you could put your ponies - or the kids when they get a bit rambunctious. You could peg them in the middle and go have some smelling salts (or something!).

With two fireplaces and two full bathrooms to top off this gorgeous Victorian dream, as well as bevelled and etched glass windows and doors, original hardwood floors throughout, and original wood trim also … I’d better just go have a look at netbanking …

          

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