A historic fixer-upper in San Antonio is on the market for any buyer brave enough to face the work needed to restore the $700,000 property — and possibly fend off a few ghosts.
The home was built in 1890 by renowned San Antonio architect James Riely Gordon, who constructed the Bexar County Courthouse, a structure added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1977.
Gordon, known for his dramatic Romanesque Revival style, later moved to Dallas and then New York City, where his profile rose even further. Indeed, by the time of his death, he was so entrenched in the Big Apple that Texas wasn’t even mentioned in his New York Times obituary…