5 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
It Was One of Missouri's Most Endangered Properties. Now It's Asking Millions.
Just over a decade ago, the roof on a circa-1880 house in Malta Bend, Mo., was at risk of collapse. Plaster was falling off the home's graffitied walls, windows were broken, and original fireplace mantels had been stolen. In 2014, the nonprofit Missouri Preservation declared the vacant house one of the state's most endangered historic properties.
'It had been really pulled apart piece-by-piece by scavengers,' said Kelee Katillac-Heiffus of the architecture and design firm Heartland Historic Homes, which later worked on restoring the Second Empire-style brick house.
