Call this turreted 1940s bungalow home for $250K

This residence which is straight out of the ’40s is hunting for a new owner. 

The turquoise-painted cinderblock cottage in Saint Cloud, Minn. — a striking-hunting time capsule from that period — is freshly on the market place for $250,000. 

“It’s a seriously charming place. Magical, I consider,” listing agent Delilah “Dolly” Langer of Edina Realty instructed The Submit of the 2,147-square-foot bungalow. “I adore it, and I feel it is fairly amazing that it even now has pretty much all its originality remaining intact.” 

The 3-bedroom household was 1st made in 1940 and to date has only had two homeowners. Its initial inhabitants ended up a store teacher and his art teacher wife, who collectively designed and developed much of the two-bathroom property’s most charming features. 

“From what I fully grasp, she did all the interior style and design and he designed a great deal of constructed-in stuff,” as properly as some household furniture, which include a “really curvy” 2nd-floor desk, Langer reported. “She painted the circus-themed lavatory. They raised their spouse and children there.” 

The 2nd proprietor and present vendor only acquired the property soon after the few passed away, and their son place it on the market place. “He loves that household and he set a good deal into earning it his very own,” included Langer. 

The very well-loved little abode is established up a established of stone stairs on a grassy large amount across the avenue from the Mississippi River. Powering its small turret of an entrance, the inside is just as colourful as the exterior, with yellow partitions and pink carpeting galore on the ground floor. The kitchen area is also pink-themed, with pink partitions, a pink tiled floor, pink cupboards, a pink island and a glass-paned pink breakfast nook. The residing home has a hearth, as effectively as pink carpeting. Also on the floor-flooring are a turquoise rest room, obtain to the hooked up garage and the 1st of the three bedrooms. 

Up the turquoise-carpeted stairs is a junior dwelling home of kinds, set in the wallpapered recess beneath the sloped roof, the remaining two bedrooms and the circus-themed lavatory. 

The block is “well known” for currently being “very pretty,” but the bungalow has still gotten a name amid the other houses for being so unique, Langer explained.