Buy an Urban Legend in Sausalito
This Sausalito POS comes in at 1 br 1 ba, 1334 sq ft, asking $699,000. According to the realtor write-up:The horn house this building is purported to have been brought around the horn in the late nineteenth century. Very special fixer with a lot of history.Hey, I've got a house that was assembled by hairless albino Borneo pigmies who were brought here by chance when they got sucked up a water spout and who subsisted on only Marin's cockroaches. Really. And it's a steal at $400K.
posted by Marinite at 6/15/2006 10:22:00 AM
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If this truly is a "historic fixer," are they buyers pretty much SOL to do any additions? There's not much to work with; it sits on all of .1 acre.
i saw a sears roebuck "jack and jill" house sell in east oakland last year for 550k.and yes a lot of these were shipped out here after the 1906 quake.there are quite a few in the older parts of the east bay,and i wouldn't be surprised to find a few in marin.as far as houses sent around the "horn" that happened up until about 1880 or so,most have since burned down,there are a few in places like sf and stockton.
Not to mention--every Atlantic-Pacific ship route before 1914 was "around the horn". It would've been far better to leave that shack at home and build from local, termite-resistant redwood (a plentiful resource at the time).
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