In 1894, a 4,000-sq-ft Illinois Victorian was built; 132 years later, a 67-year-old retiree bought it for $97,500 and has already spent $85,000 restoring just 1,000 sq ft

Illinois Victorian Home: In 1894, a 4,000-sq-ft Illinois Victorian was built; 132 years later, a 67-year-old retiree bought it for $97,500 and has already spent $85,000 restoring just 1,000 sq ft

Rebecca Roucloux Avery, 67, had already done the thing most people aspire to: she owned a brand-new home in Austin, a city people pay premiums to move to. She was retired, financially stable, and living in a modern construction built to last. But then she left it all for a 132-year-old Victorian home in Vermont,…

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