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Grab a Historic Mississippi House for an Absolute Steal: 5,000 for Vicksburg’s Feld House

As far as homes on the National Register of Historic Places go, this one is an amazing deal. The Feld house in Vicksburg, MS, is a fascinating example of neoclassical revival architecture. Built in 1913, the four-bedroom, three-bath, 5,000-square-foot home looks like a little blue Italian villa was plopped down in the middle of Mississippi.

According to the National Register: “In Mississippi, the Neo-Classical Revival style was most often expressed in domestic architecture in terms of a lingering Colonial Revival taste. The Old Feld House is a unique rejection of the lingering Colonial Revival style. By its use of Palladian arches, piazzas, wide bracketed eaves and a prominent blue-tile roof, a Mediterranean connotation is successfully evoked.”

Built by Hannah B. Fishell, the widow of a prominent businessman, the home was sold in 1929 to the Feld family, for whom the house is named. It has been a private residence, furniture store, and most recently antiques store. The current zoning is either residential or commercial—charming Southern bed-and-breakfast anybody?

The interior definitely needs some TLC, but the house has amazing bones. It’s simply drowning in columns, arches, balustrades, and cornices.

It also features a receiving hall with two window seats, conservatory, parlor, formal dining room, breakfast room, butler’s pantry, four fireplaces (one clad in Italian marble), and two porches. (In Mississippi, you just can’t have too many porches!)

People throw around the word “unique” a lot when talking about real estate, but the Feld house is really a singular creation. According to the Vicksburg Post, when Hurricane Katrina knocked a tree into the roof in 2005, the striking blue tiles had to be custom-made for the repair.

These days it’s hard to find someone with the vision to build an Italianate mansion walking distance to downtown Vicksburg. Luckily, the Feld house can be yours for the extremely reasonable price of $215,000.

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