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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

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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,…

In 2012, a derelict 1866 Washington house was listed on a waterfront lot worth more without it; preservationists spent 6 years buying it and 8 more restoring it before reopening it in 2026

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Picture from the book ‘Granville Haller: Leader’ by Martin N. Chamberlain via Historicwhidbey.org In 2012, a crumbling 1866 farmhouse sat on a prized waterfront lot in Coupeville, Washington, listed for sale at a price that reflected the land’s value far more than the building’s. The Haller House, one of the oldest surviving structures on Whidbey…

An American gambler spent $90 million buying 54,000 acres of logged Florida land. Eight million longleaf pines later, a lost forest is returning | World News

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M.C. Davis spent close to 90 million dollars buying up 54,000 acres of heavily logged land in the Florida Panhandle, turning what timber companies had stripped bare into one of the largest private nature preserves in the southeastern United States. Since founding what he called Nokuse Plantation in 2000, Davis and his team have planted…