Buy 1794 D.C. Home: $1.3M For Seven Fireplaces and a 1960s Time Capsule Kitchen

KEY POINTS

•The 1317 4th Street SW home in D.C.'s Wheat Row was built in 1794 and is now listed for $1.3 million.
•It features seven fireplaces, historic wood moldings over 200 years old, and a four-floor layout with 12-foot ceilings and hardwood floors throughout.
•Originally a residential property, then community service and daycares in the mid-1900s, it was renovated to include a 2005 elevator and has a kitchen last remodeled in the 1960s.

For a mere $1.3 million, you can own a narrow, four-story townhouse at 1317 4th Street SW that’s been warming ancestral derrières with its seven fireplaces since 1794. This time-traveling real estate marvel, listed by Eric Stewart of Long & Foster Real Estate, balances 18th-century molding finesse (crafted by artisans who probably snubbed running water) with modern perks like a 2005 elevator boasting all-wooden interiors. The kitchen was last hip in the 1960s, currently demanding a $100K renovation or a fetish for retro colonial style. Oh, and the bathrooms are split over two floors because apparently privacy was in phases then. All this history lovingly cared for by a retired professor who wants someone who loves crawling through American history as much as a pile of hardwood floors and chandeliers worth maybe 35 million – if only dripping in electricity.

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Selling a 1794 house with seven fireplaces, a vintage ’60s kitchen, and split bathrooms because nothing screams modern convenience like shuffling upstairs just to pee.

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