Looking past the flaws

This is a repair that would frighten away the vast majority of potential buyers of this historic home. It is the result of the house's roof collapsing during one of the SEVEN years that the house was left abandoned! However, it IS repairable and what the average onlooker would not know is that the rotten section is the NEWEST part of the house! In fact, the remainder of the house is built of brick, vertically sided in wide plank pine and horizontally clapboarded over that. That has allowed this house to survive 209 years so far and I hope many more to come! With no buyer willing to look past this quite ugly and horrible decay, this historic gem could have joined rank as one of the millions of hearty and historic homes that have bulldozed across our state.