This is along 100 in West Chester. The Old Pottstown Pike section. On the right as you are headed towards West Chester Borough.
I am told that it is actually in West Whiteland. I was never sure. I thought maybe West Goshen originally.
As for who once lived there I was told a man who worked on cars, dabbled in antiques and old photos too. That resulted in a memory of a conversation with a friend of mine who is a local historian years ago who said he gave her photos or a photo for a book she published. I am told his name was Bob Swayne?
So how does a house get to this state? Who were his heirs? How can any municipality just ignore this?
I took photos of this house a few years ago. Of course I can’t find them, but I do not remember the house being tagged. I don’t remember the roof having fallen apart.
It’s not a great beauty of a house. It’s probably not historic in any way. But once it was someone’s home. That is just a little sad.
It’s sad and there’s plenty out there, some worth saving and some not. The costs for rehabbing these houses is enormous and few people can afford to put $500,000+ more into fixing these places up when you can slap up new construction for half the price. What is the “life span” of a house?
Oh I know and this house was not super old from what I remember about 8 or 10 years ago but when it appears that there were possibly no family members to get the house, what happened ?
And now it’s a hazard so what happens now?