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If it clucks like a chicken, part 2
Yep, it reminds them of a time simpler time in Rosemead, by which they mean monochromatic.
It looks okay from the outside, and it would make an acceptable museum house, if it weren't for the repair costs. But if it were a car, the insurance people would write it off as a total loss. It's not worth $700,000 today. Better to sell it for a few hundred thousand to someone who could do the repair work themselves, then take the $200,000 -$300,000 or so from the property sale, and maybe some of the $700,000 you just saved in repair costs, and do a museum right.
The city DOES have someplace that would unquestionably qualify as historic--the oldest Protestant cemetary in the state. Maybe they could rescue an old bungalow from one of the many "knockdown and McMansionize" projects in the city on to the cemetary grounds, and use that as ground zero for our historic museum?
Otherwise, there are plenty of other, equally "historic" homes in the city that could be had for less than $700,000, plus what ever you could get for selling the non-Historic Dinsmoor House.