1912 Washington Iowa Four-Bedroom with Original Woodwork — $119,000

The woodwork is the first thing you notice. In a house this old, that stuff usually gets painted over, replaced, or both. Here it survived, and it runs through the whole house. Trim, built-ins, whatever it is that makes a 1912 house feel like a 1912 house instead of a renovation project. That alone is worth paying attention to.

The house is 1,752 square feet with four bedrooms and one bath. At $119,000, that math works out to under $68 a square foot, which is a low number for four bedrooms anywhere. The single bathroom will be the sticking point for some people. Worth knowing going in.

The lot is 0.23 acres, which gives you a real backyard. Mature trees shade it, so you get coverage without planting anything. A 2-car detached garage sits at the back with alley access, which means you can get your cars in and out without pulling through the front. That setup is genuinely useful and less common than you'd think at this price point.

The location is close to downtown Washington. The address puts you on East Washington Street, so you're not buried in a subdivision somewhere. You can walk to things, or you're close enough that it feels like a neighborhood with some life to it.

One bathroom for four bedrooms is the tradeoff you're making. The house is 112 years old, so there will be things. The agent description is thin on specifics beyond the woodwork, the garage, and the yard, so if you're serious you'd want to know the condition of the roof, the mechanicals, and what that one bathroom looks like. But the bones here are what they are, and original woodwork in a house this age that made it through intact is the kind of thing that's hard to recreate and easy to ruin. Somebody didn't ruin it.