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A CASE FOR PRESERVATION
Old House Journal
|May 2020
A post-Civil war house in a historic district enjoys a dramatic reversal of fortune.
For decades, this 850-square-foot house had been a poorly maintained rental property in a National Register neighborhood in Lawrence, Kansas. It had been on the market for an unreasonably long time, despite its coveted location near the historic downtown.
This story is from the May 2020 edition of Old House Journal.
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