A former western common retailer has turn out to be a one-bedroom house with a museum -- and now it may be yours.
Patsy Nyberg- Realty ONE Group Integrity
This lonely landmark is in search of a brand new proprietor.
A painstakingly renovated Wild West common retailer is in search of a caretaker to thoughts its cabinets — and historical past.
Within the ghost city of Pearce, Arizona — “a gateway to the famed Cochise Stronghold within the majestic, sacred Dragoon mountains” a few 90-minute drive from Tucson and with a inhabitants lower than 2,000 — one girl’s rigorously restored reincarnation is now on the market. The 905 Ghost City Path property is listed as a one-bedroom, three-bathroom house and is at the moment in search of $1.1 million.
“The mercantile has been standing there on the similar spot since 1895. It was your one-stop-shop, like at the moment’s division retailer,” itemizing agent Patsy Nyberg from Realty One Group Integrity instructed Insider of the previous common retailer, which was bought by a lady named Patricia Burris and her late husband, Michael, in 1996. A historian, Michael lengthy dreamt of giving new life to the 127-year-old storefront, which in 1978 made it into the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations.
A historic photograph of the two-story construction, which was erected in 1895.
The adobe construction as soon as contained a Wells Fargo financial institution.
The deal with has been on and off the market since 2019.
There's a working blacksmith store on the property, accessible by way of an exterior courtyard.
An aerial view of the compound.
The present proprietor briefly lived on the former store.
The property has been lovingly restored.
The ghost city is a well-liked roadtripping location.
The lady behind the restoration now lives at a former publish workplace within the space.
Touches embrace stained glass and an arched doorway.
The deal with is at the moment zoned for residential use.
A kitchen and eating space within the again.
He died earlier than the job was finished — however following his demise, his spouse dedicated herself to finishing the duty with the assistance of native artisans. (Nyberg’s husband did the carpentry on the residence within the rear of the house, she instructed The Submit.) In 2019, some three years after Michael’s passing, it was completed, from the re-stuccoed facade and repaired unique railings, ladders and cabinets — to added relics and interval decor.
Past that one-bedroom residential portion, which a potential proprietor can flip right into a trip rental by including extra rooms, Burris additionally reworked the area right into a museum showcasing the historical past of the previous mining city. The itemizing has been on and off the market over the previous few years. (For its half, the residence comes full with a eating room and a kitchen with functioning classic home equipment.)
“[Burris] crammed this place with antiques that she sought out over time, a lot of which is able to convey with the sale,” and had been donated by space households or discovered at yard gross sales, Nyberg instructed Insider.
Though Burris briefly lived on the property, generally known as Outdated Pearce Mercantile, whereas her house — Pearce’s former publish workplace — was being renovated, she nonetheless checks on the area every day. All of it awaits its new proprietor empty, save a cat that usually hangs out on the area.
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