1920 Charleston East End Home with Original Hardwoods and Updated Kitchen — $139,900

The floors are the first thing. Original hardwood throughout a 1920 house, and they're still here, which at this age means someone took care of them. That's the kind of detail that tells you something about how a house has been lived in.

This is 1781 square feet on Beauregard Street in Charleston's East End, three bedrooms, one bath, and a lower level that adds usable space below the main floor. At around $78 a square foot, you're getting a lot of house for the money in a historic neighborhood.

The kitchen has been updated with granite countertops and cabinetry that comes with a lifetime warranty. That's a real number attached to a real thing, and it means whoever did that work stood behind it. The rest of the house keeps the older character intact, so the kitchen sits inside something with age and weight to it rather than a gut renovation that erased everything.

There's a front porch. It faces the street, which in an older neighborhood like the East End means you're part of the block in a way that a side or back porch doesn't give you. That matters to some people and doesn't to others, but it's there and it's the kind of porch that gets used.

The windows have been replaced with vinyl, which means you're not fighting single-pane originals for heat in a West Virginia winter. Not glamorous, but practical, and in a 100-year-old house that's a straightforward improvement.

The lower level is described as usable without a lot of specifics in the listing. What that means in a house this age is usually a finished or semi-finished basement with enough headroom to do something with. Home office, storage, a room for a teenager, whatever you need. It's square footage that the price per foot calculation already accounts for, so you're not paying extra for it.

Off-street parking is included, which in an older urban neighborhood is not always a given and is worth flagging plainly.

Originally listed for $139,900, this property sold for $139,900 on August 28, 2026.