We have many homes like that in the Boston area and they maintain 90% of the integrity but for the plumbing and heating. I love the open large feeling of the rooms and yet they're private to a point. Will you be living in this one? If so, I can just picture your decor. LOL to the Woody Allen line on the boxy whatever that was.

No, unfortunately this is way out of my budget and capability to maintain square footage. I would love one of these though.

This house is very reminiscent of my friend's house in Society Hill. The entry and living room are identical. She has a staircase with very low clearance at one point. There is a sign that says "Watch your head. The colonists were short."

I would love to live there.

Very pretty and finally, a house with a sufficient number of fireplaces. :)

How many servants would they have had, do you think? What kind of servants?

As I understand it, since it is on a Number street and not a Name street, these houses belonged to successful business people, but not people of the same means as the Number streets.

The houses are slightly smaller and plainer. They had servants, I am sure who probably mostly lived in the much smaller houses interspersed in the alleys and courts, and not all in the house.

We looked at a yet-smaller house that had head-banging stairwells and a couple of upper floor doors that were 21 inches wide that could not be widened.

I would love to live there. Of course, these days, wouldn't want all those stairs, but the bones are lovely. Thanks for sharing.

This one I like.

I see it as maintaining traditional integrity. Even if under furnished, the signs of good taste are obvious.

While there are a few things that could use re-doing, There is nothing that's horrendous as it is, even with the current wallpaper.

I so enjoy these types of posts you make, pal. Very interesting and educational.

In this case, it's a relief to see older homes like this that haven't been horribly remuddled in an effort to update.

Pal, what's the MLS# for that? A buddy of mine is in the market in Society Hill, and I didn't see that on PruFox's web site. But I didn't spend a ton of time poking around. It'll need to be under a $1M for him, however, so that may be asking too much in that area given its apparent size.

It's a bit over $1M, and it's in Washington Square West, not Society Hill. There is very little inventory in WSW so it is only a few down from the top of the listings if you sort by price.

I really like it other than the larger bathroom. I like the kitchen.

"The interior of my pocket shutters had one layer of paint in about 170 years."

That is truly amazing to me. IMO excessive layers of paint which need removing would be a major drawback to an older home.

The large rooms and large windows are wonderful altho I'm not enamored of the kitchen or that second bath posted.

Is this a townhouse or detached?

Very nice, at least until you get to the kitchen and bath and even they weren't horrible. A least the rooms were not terribly over-decorated and over-furnished.

Kevin, it seems to be a Coldwell Banker listing. Here is the address: 316 S 10th St
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(Washington Square West)
Asking 1,095,000.

Still a good price, but that's kind of a weird location (although it is just down from one of my favorite restaurants (Canella, love the Cyprus breakfast) and, across the street, one of my favorite bars (Varga)). Thanks for the info, I'll pass it along. With the city's recent reassessment of taxes, these sorts of properties are going to get a little silly (what the city would call "fair") as far as property taxes are concerned. Fortunately, they used the 1826 square footage of my house, which is 500 square feet under what it actually is, saving me about $1.5K.

It's hard to pass up those room sizes if you can afford the house. I could not, so that's the difference between $475-500K and $1M+.