Homes For Sale

310 Marine Street Larger View     This house began life as an ante-bellum Gulf Coast cottage with an 1897 three-room Victorian addition on the front. (The house originally fronted on the NW corner of Savannah and Marine and was moved back to where the rear portion of the house now sits. The front porch and three rooms behind the front porch were added to the then side of the original house. This is why the interior hall of 310 Marine run north-south in a line with Marine Street, one room back from the present front of the house.)     Thus, it is a very interesting and unusual combination of styles and confirgurations.     When restoration is completed, it will have three bedrooms and two baths, as well as a wonderful kitchen opening onto a nice side back porch. Facing east, the front porch will provide a nice place to gather in the late afternoon and visit with passing neighbors. The house is listed at $169,500. View Before/After images Google Map 311 Marine Street Larger View     This circa 1900 neoclassic side hall house was a simple workman's-type cottage; however, it contained more refined interior detailing than many houses of its type. Nice beaded-board wainscoting runs down the hallway, for example. It contains beautiful heart pine floors and high ceilings.     The OVRF intends to completely restore this house as well as add a cabinet gallerie in the rear. A cabinet gallerie is a design common to the Gulf Coast in the nineteenth century; however, the design was lost in the twentieth century and many houses containing this configuration were demolished or the designs on those that survived were changed over time.     A cabinet gallerie is basically a loggia with side rooms forming two of the three sides that enclose the loggia. In other words, the gallerie is a rear porch that gives one a feeling of being outside and at the same time some sense of security and enclosure that porches that are open on three sides can lack.     There will be french doors from the rear bedroom and the den that open on to the gallerie that will look out on a deep backyard.     The house will have two bedrooms and two bathrooms. View Before/After images Google Map 301 Marine Street Larger View This house is in the heart of the newly revitalized Marine Street, the oldest street in Oakleigh. The house at 301 Marine is only a block from both Washington Square and Callaghan's. In fact, from one of the front windows of the house, one can see Washington Square. It is a block from Broad Street which is presently undergoing a $2 million refurbishment that will enhance the eastern end of the Oakleigh Garden District and help revitalize the southern and eastern portions of Oakleigh. It is a little gem of a house with its original boarded walls and its neo-classic mantle piece. The original heart pine floors and light colors give the house a warmth and cozy feel. It has been totally rewired, replumbed, new HVAC, new bathrooms, new kitchen, etc. It has two bedroom and one and a half baths. The kitchen has granite counter tops and custom cabinets. It opens on to a glassed in family room that overlooks a walled patio garden. It has off-street parking. The house is listed at $179,500. View Before/After images Google Map