Posted: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:00 am
By Chris Peters / World-Herald staff writer
The 120-year-old Victorian home once lay in disrepair.
Its beige-colored skin cracked and peeled. Pipes punched through the floor from a bedroom apartment into the basement, and electrical wiring throughout the house failed. The house was unlivable and on a path toward demolition.
But Micah and Jennifer Evans saw potential. They spotted the home in an online ad in 2002, four years after it sold for $35,000. An investor had bought the house, brought the home up to code, then put it back on the market. The Evanses swooped in for about $120,000.
“It had good bones, a lot of original features in it,” Micah Evans said. “We liked it right away.”
