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$650,000 Homes in Minnesota, Tennessee and Virginia

A Tudor Revival home in St. Paul, a rebuilt 1875 farmhouse in Nashville and a 1910 rowhouse in Richmond.

What You Get for $650,000

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This home is in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood, a few blocks east of the Mississippi River and about a mile north of Highland Village, a shopping and restaurant center in the adjacent Highland Park neighborhood. It is about midway (15 minutes in each direction) between downtown St. Paul to the northeast and central Minneapolis to the northwest.

Size: 2,750 square feet

Price per square foot: $227

Indoors: The owners bought the property seven years ago and made a number of improvements, including refreshing the kitchen and bathrooms, repainting the interior and landscaping the yards.

The front door takes you into a narrow vestibule with a closet. Just beyond is a 23-foot-wide living room with a brick fireplace with Craftsman-style glass-front cabinets on either side topped by small casement windows. At the opposite end of the room is a sun parlor that has the same pale hardwood floors, gray walls and white-painted trim.

The dining room, which lies straight ahead of the front door, has floor-to-ceiling china cabinets in two corners and French doors leading out to a backyard deck. It flows into a kitchen with simple white cabinets, stainless steel appliances and a breakfast nook. Next to it is a powder room with gray walls and white fixtures.

A staircase rises from the dining area to a second-floor landing on which sliding-glass doors open to a three-season room. The three bedrooms on this level all have pale wood floors and closets with louvered doors. They share a renovated, subway-tiled bathroom with dark blue walls and a shower over a tub.

The master suite is on the third floor. It has an angled ceiling, built-in cabinets, schoolhouse pendant lights (one with a fan) and a bathroom with double sinks, heated penny-round-tile floors, a stall shower and a walk-in closet more than 10 feet deep.

There is also a basement with a family room and a game room with heated floors, a finished laundry room and a half bathroom.

Outdoor space: The front yard includes garden beds and window boxes. Limestone steps walk down to a large brick patio in back surrounded by lawn. Parking is in a detached one-car garage.

Taxes: $9,054 (2019, based on a tax assessment of $527,700)

Contact: Lolly Salmen, Coldwell Banker Realty, 612-810-4138; coldwellbankerhomes.com


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This white clapboard house is in Davidson County, about 15 miles southeast of downtown and eight miles south of the airport. It was renovated in a 2016 project dramatized in the first season of the DIY Network series “Nashville Flipped.” It was long known as Farview Farm, as it is surrounded by 600 acres of undeveloped (but not protected) land. The current owner renamed the property Timshel Hall, after a passage in John Steinbeck’s novel “East of Eden” that interprets the Hebrew word “timshel” in the book of Genesis as “thou mayest,” the divine power of humans to choose their own course.

Size: 2,346 square feet

Price per square foot: $277

Indoors: The house was taken back to the studs and rebuilt without changing the historical footprint, with new HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems and thermally efficient windows.

A pergola shelters the stone pathway to the front door. Turning left from the stair hall takes you into a living room with hardwood floors, gray walls with white trim and one of the home’s three relined wood-burning fireplaces.

The adjacent dining room contains a second fireplace and adjoins an open kitchen with a pantry and a granite-topped breakfast bar (a farmhouse sink and dishwasher are discreetly integrated). Subway tile in a herringbone pattern lines the backsplash. A glass door opens from the dining room to a covered porch that runs alongside the house.

The master bedroom is off the kitchen and echoes the high ceilings, crown moldings and gray-and-white palette of the other downstairs rooms. The en suite master bathroom includes a vanity with a cast-concrete top and double sinks, a pair of circular mirrors with fluted-metal frames, a claw-foot tub and a separate shower. The walk-in closet is lined in shelves, cabinets and cubbies.

A small covered porch above the front entrance is entered from the second-floor landing. Both upstairs bedrooms have fireplaces (one works) and ample storage. The bedroom currently used as a study has built-in bookcases and direct access to a large covered balcony above the side porch. The upstairs bathroom includes tile flooring and a combined tub and shower.

Outdoor space: The three porches have a total area of about 600 square feet. The long, rear pergola, wrapped in rose vines and jasmine, can shelter two dozen people. The property is fully fenced, draped in lighting and studded with mature oak trees. It has a firepit and no fewer than four water features. A long, 1,200-square-foot outbuilding could be used for parking.

Taxes: $2,779 (based on an appraisal of $352,300)

Contact: Stephen Carr, Sotheby’s International Realty, 615-415-5191; sothebysrealty.com


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Renovated by the owners from top to bottom, this two-story brick house is in Upper Church Hill, a historic district that has experienced a revival in the last several years. It is surrounded by shops, bakeries, bars and houses of worship, and is within blocks of a string of parks, to the southwest. Downtown is less than two miles west (and downhill).

Size: 2,980 square feet

Price per square foot: $213

Indoors: A paneled front door inset with a stained-glass window opens to a small foyer with slate flooring. Beyond is an undivided space that has 10-foot ceilings with crown molding; recessed and decorative lighting; bamboo floors; and an exposed-brick wall that extends the entire length. The gas fireplace at the front end is framed in wood and topped by a mirrored overmantel. A wet bar is positioned between the living and dining areas. (The dining area has a second fireplace.)

The open kitchen is at the other end of the room. The kitchen has blue slate-tile floors and custom cabinetry of Brazilian lacewood, black walnut and mahogany, topped in granite. The appliances include a Thermador cooktop, oven and warming drawer; a Sub-Zero refrigerator; and a Miele dishwasher. Additional storage is in a pantry cabinet.

Beyond the kitchen is a half bathroom with an exposed-brick wall, black fixtures and a linen closet. A back staircase rises directly to the 20-by-30-foot master suite, which includes a bedroom with a double-door closet; a cedar-lined walk-in closet; a fireplace; and a pair of remote-controlled skylights that automatically close when rain is imminent. The master bathroom has a vanity of reclaimed cherry with double sinks, a separate shower and WC room (including a urinal), as well as a laundry room.

The second floor, which has two additional bedrooms and a bathroom converted from a former trunk room, can also be reached by a wrought-iron staircase at the front of the house.

Outdoor space: The small front yard, with its wrought-iron fence and Japanese maple, includes a herringbone-slate walkway that leads to a covered front porch. A larger, covered rear porch is cooled by a pair of ceiling fans. The fenced backyard contains a cobblestone walkway, paved patio, pergola and detached storage shed. Parking is on the street.

Taxes: $5,280 (2019, based on a tax assessment of $440,000)

Contact: Kacie Jenkins, Hometown Realty, 804-513-4592; hometownrealtyservices.com

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