This house was featured on "House Hunters" and 2 Episodes of "House Hunters: Where Are They Now". Links to the shows are below for anyone that wants to see the before and afters. There is also a link to an article from "Design and Living" that features some history, renovations and details of the house.
Herblin Shoe/Merritt House ca.1899-1900national and local historical designations. Amazing 4.5yr thoughtful and meticulous restoration/renovation. Work
directed by noted historic restoration architect and interior designer
that specializes in historical interior restoration. A real showplace with no expense spared! State of the art kitchen, incredible master suite/bath,
incredible closets and more! Primary house, plus former
cook's quarters now used as office and 1bd/1ba garage apartment over 3 car
carriage house.
HISTORY via Judges Hill Historic District
Constructed for William Herblin’s family in 1899-1900 as 2-story Late
Victorian/Queen Anne with gable attic and brick veneer. The Herblins sold
the home to Mary and Ruffin Shofner in October, 1910, and they sold
the house to Mildred and George Clark in October of 1917. Mary and
William Shoe purchased the home in July of 1927, and the home was left
to their daughter in December of 1969. Lucy Shoe Meritt’s career in the
East allowed her to spend summers in the home from the time the Shoes
first purchased the house in 1927. The Meritts moved to the home
permanently in 1971 after their retirement, spending summers at their
home in Ontario; their Austin home was not air conditioned. FOR SALE $2,550,000 712 W 16th St, Austin, TX 78701 4 beds | 4 Full/1 Half baths | 4232 sqft | .25acres LINKS: Listing Agent, Zillow, Realtor, Judges Hill Historic District, Historic American Building Survey via UNT,
Featured Photos
Slideshow (more pictures, including the interior of the carriage house)
The Gillette House, built in the early 1900s by Greenwood businessman and mayor Stage
Marye, this grand home was once one of the finest in the Delta, and
could be once again.Its design was inspired by the many showboats that
once sailed the waters of the Yazoo and mighty Mississippi.The interior
features beautiful woodwork, ornate mantels, hardwood floors, gorgeous molding and solid wood doors enhanced with egg and dart
molding. A private, three room suite upstairs
has casement windows that open up for a sweeping view of the Yazoo
River.
The house is described in the NRHP River Road and Western Downtown
Residential Historic District info, which fails to convey the beauty of
the place:
507 River Road – Neo-Classical Revival. Ca. 1910.
One-and-a-half story frame residence with hipped roof and large central
gabled dormer with Palladian window and dentiled cornice that is flanked
by two small gabled dormers with Ionic pilasters and bas relief
ornament in the gable ends; one-story porch surrounds the facade and
side elevations and features an elliptical projection with arched and
scrolled pediment defining the entrance doorway; the porch has a full
dentiled entablature supported by Ionic columns linked by a turned
baluster railing; elliptical curve of the central facade echoes the
curve of the porch and contains a frontispiece entrance with double-leaf
glazed doors set beneath a patterned transom.
FOR SALE $89,000$75,000 $65,000 507 River Rd, Greenwood, MS 38930 5 beds | 3 baths | 5177 sqft | .9acres LINKS: Listing Agent (n/a), Zillow, Realtor,
