Not only do you get to spend half a million dollars on buying it, you’ll have to figure out how and where to move a ridiculously large house. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/35-Stonehouse-Dr-Princeton-NJ-08540/39013680_zpid/
“They just do not build houses like this anymore” which is a shame, because you will have to try
"Who will pay me $500k to demolish my house? "
It might be cheaper to hire an architect to walk it and sketch out a new set of blueprints, rebuild it somewhere else.
You can’t just casually mention that the whole house has to be moved to another location and not even say why.
I assume a rich asshole bought it, assuming he could demolish it, found out it is protected, and is now trying to pass the relocation costs on to some other rich asshole. I don’t even see how this place can be moved though, it looks like masonry on a slab.
I’ve never seen something so ridiculous lol
There’s some speculation in the comments on this site that the American Battlefield Trust purchased it as part of an effort to preserve a historic battlefield location in Princeton. So they don’t want to be destroying other historic stuff, I guess?
I love this bit from the description:
While currently located within the Princeton Public School district, the municipality where the house is moved will determine where students will attend public schools.
As if some people may assume the school zoning would follow the physical house where ever it gets relocated. It’s one of those lines that gets added to the description because someone asked that question in the past.