1906 Albemarle House in the County Architecture Book — $120,000

This house made it into a published book. Not a brochure, not a local blog post — a documented architectural history of Stanly County, North Carolina, called *Stanly County: The Architectural Legacy of a Rural North Carolina County* by Donna Dodenhoff. That is a specific, verifiable thing, and it tells you something about what you are looking at when you pull up to 1003 Lundix St.

The house was built in 1906. It is 1,506 square feet with three bedrooms and one bath, which is a reasonable amount of space for something this old. At $120,000, you are at $79 a square foot, which reflects what the sellers and the condition are telling you: this one needs work.

The roof was replaced in 2020, so that is one large item you are not walking into blind. Everything else is harder to assess from the outside. The utilities are off right now — electricity, water, and gas are all suspended because the house is vacant. You will want to get those back on before you close, or at least know what you are agreeing to without them. The house is being sold as-is, and the sellers are motivated, which together mean they are not going to fix anything and they want to move it.

Natural gas is available. That is good to know for heating if you are planning a full renovation.

What you have here is a 118-year-old house with architectural standing in the county record, a new roof, and a price that prices in real work. The agent description is thin on interior detail, so what the rooms look like beyond the bedroom and bath count is something you find out at the showing. The last photo in the listing is reportedly the book reference, which is worth seeing before you go.

If you are someone who wants to restore something with a documented history in a mid-sized North Carolina town, this is a concrete starting point. If you want to walk in and turn the lights on, this is the wrong house.