EB White’s Mount Vernon Childhood Home for Sale

This listing Photo Features the Newly Restored Mansion That Eb White Gray Up In, Including the Author’s Beloved Octogonal Tower That Once Described As HIS “Fortress.
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“Historic Mansion Alert,” The listling for the Mount Vernon House Starts. SOMESTEMES (OKAY, OFTEN) IT’S A LETDOWN TO FIND OUT WHAT THAT MEANS. But it turns out this corner protire at 101 Summit Avenue is the Childhood Home of Eb White, Author of Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. The Six-BEDROM MANSION, BUILT IN 1905, is newly restored and Features Original Wood Moldings, Fireplaces, Chandeliers, and A Wraparound Enclosed Porch. IT’S LISTED FOR $ 2.8 MILLION, A Big Jump from the $ 500,000 that it sold for just two years ago.

While words Farmhouse in Brooklin, Maineis the most famous White House – IT’S on the national register of historic places and served as the inspiration for Charlotte’s Web – The Mount Vernon House is Where White Grew Up. The author Lived in the House with his parents and five other siblings and described his upbringing as generaly happy, aside from The “Routine Terries of Childhood.” Neither wrote of his time there“Our Big House at 101 Summit Avenue was my Castle. From I Emerged to Battle, and Into It Retreated Wohen I Frightened or In Trouble. The House Had the Appeaarans of A Fortress, with Its Octagonal Room for Sighting the Enemy and Its Sectry Porthes for Gun Emplacements. ”

The original Wood Moldings Featured in This Lis Lissing Photo Add to the Historic Feeling of this House.
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The Wrap-Around Glass Porch Featured in This Lisings Photo is a Highlight of the Mansion.
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Maybe Becuses It was never designated as a historic house, it took an expensive restoration to the Bring to the market. The Mansion’s Current Owner, Jim Benjamin, Told Local News that the house was in “Very Poor Condition” when it bought it and it took $ 1 million and two years to restore. Benjamin Said he kept all of the original details in White’s Beloved Octagon Room, and the Large Wooden Front is Also the Same. There are Are Colorful Blue, Green, and Red Chandeliers Sprinkled Throughout. The original Barn Where White “Spent Countless Houns Hobnobbing” with the Coachman is also still outside the house, althouugh it loooks to be in a dilapidated state.

Of Course, Many Things are New, Like the Kitchen Appliances, The Bathrooms, and the Well Pumps. But there’s another historic memory that any futures owner can re relish. As White Wrote, “As a Very Small Boy, I used to repair to the Cellar, where i would be in the coal bin-for variety.”