Victorian Homes

[BlackMagicRose]

Can anyone help me out?? My DH and I are really into Victorian homes (old and new) but we are having a hard time finding information about them, especially searches for victorian homes for sale. Does anyone here like Victorian homes and have some websites and/or infor you can share with me??

Also, Please post your Victorian style home. If you have one, you are lucky!!!

[LRL]

There are a lot of Victorians where I live. Let me see if I can't find some links for you. Unfortunately, the really nice ones in our area do not tend to go on the market very often. We have an offer out to purchase a friends if she ever decides to sell it- we are in love with her house! We have another friend who just sold his family home for about 1.4MM here in a very central location. The home is in escrow and sold in about 2 weeks. :eek: Really fast given the slowing market here.

Here are some sites I found:
http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrhds/Victorian_Homes.html
http://www.victorianalliance.org/
http://www.victorianstation.com/vicarch.html

Our city has an architectural preservation society which has a home tour every year, and I have gone regularly for about the past 10 years. It is really amazing to see the interiors of some of these homes. DH and I have a dream about renovating one of these homes and preserving the victorian style.

ETA: I have seen some new construction in Napa of homes in the Victorian style. The next time we are up there I will take a look-

[WisWis]

www.historicproperties.com
You can search by both area and style. It is one of the sites that I used when looking for our new old house. Some listings have already been fixed up and others need some TLC. It can also help you narrow down some areas to focus on.

www.oldhouseweb.com.
The information there isn't limited to victorians, but it's a great resource for information on older homes in general.

I'll have to go through my bookmarked pages and see if I can find any more links for you. Good luck - old homes are so much fun!

[Katie1]

I have a Victorian home, built in 1890. I loved Victorians before we bought this one, but little did I know how much work it is to maintain a house this old. Every repair costs more than the average house- for instance, a local gutter cleaning company charged our neighbors $90 for their Colonial. I called to get a quote, and they said that Victorians start at $250!

Many MLS systems can filter by style of home. Call a realtor in the area you are interested in, and ask them to add you to their e-mail list. They can put you in to receive automatic e-mails whenever a house that matches your criteria comes on the market.

Where are you looking? You will have more luck finding a Victorian in an older, established city like Boston, New York, San Francisco, or Chicago.

Here's a photo of my house Sorry it's so large):
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a141/kalphen/P1010009.jpg?t=1173204922

[LRL]

Katie1- I can't believe they change the pricing due to the style of home! Around here I think they assume it is an older home, and then don't give discounts if the job is easy.

[BlackMagicRose]

I LOVE your house Katie!

We are not looking any where in particular, and it does not have to be an "Old" victorian, a new house with a victorian style will do. I found a newer house in Fort Worth, Texas that was built in the victorian style and I am sooooo in love with it. Most of the homes in the areas you mentioned are probably too much $$$$ for us right now.

[dionysia]

I'm another 1890s Victorian owner (in MA even!).

Lots of work, but a definite labor of love. We have had the windows replaced, the house deleaded, squirrels removed & roof holes patched (twice!), the electrical updated, the water heater replaced, the kitchen floor tiled (flood warped the original wood floor); we've painted the living room, re-did the bathroom, took down wallpaper & painted the baby's room...

Next projects are to get the house painted, the backyard redone, the turret roof replaced, and the chimney repointed.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/dionysia/house2.jpg

Di