Historic and pre-war Columbia
Shandon, Wales Garden, Elmwood Park, and Melrose Heights are full of houses pushing a hundred years old. The charm is real, and so are the specifics: knob-and-tube or early cloth wiring hiding behind updated fixtures, terracotta and clay sewer laterals under root-heavy oak streets, pier-and-beam foundations that have been shimmed for generations, and layer-on-layer renovations of wildly varying quality. Insurers and lenders have gotten stricter about all of it. We inspect these houses slowly and tell you what's original character, what's been competently updated, and what's a rewire-or-walk conversation.
