4522 7th Street SW

Built in Victorian 1880. Remodeled for 2026. The neighborhood grew up around it. This is a home you experience. You feel it at the gate, again on the curve of the staircase, and by the new kitchen you're deciding where the coffee goes. Carved in sandstone over the door are the year 1880, and the names Haman and Lidia Bordner. A prominent farming family's home that sat on their 250 acres of what is now West Manor. Five families in 146 years have kept it pristine and even opened it as a museum in the 80s. On the National Register of Historic Places. Ready for the next owner's name. Red brick Italianate under a bracketed cornice, arched hoods over the windows, a curved sunporch wrapping the front corner. Inside, the staircase sweeps up in a true curve, never stained. A 28-foot parlor opens through draped arches hung with draperies originally from the Canton Palace Theater and their original pocket doors to a marble mantel and crystal gasoliers. The sitting room with carved oak overmantel, wainscoting, an original built-in secretary. Chestnut and walnut from the farm's own timber, never painted. And now the modern kitchen, gutted to the walls this year and rebuilt by local tradesmen: custom Thomasville cabinetry in navy with brass pulls, granite, a walnut-topped peninsula over the original brick, iron-bracket shelving, a copper tin ceiling, an antique chandelier. The breakfast room keeps its original floor-to-ceiling built-ins, window seat, and wood stove on a brick hearth. A fieldstone wall stands proud as an electric gate encloses this 0.76 acres on a corner. Hand-dug perennial gardens blooming spring through fall, a gazebo, stamped-concrete patio and walks, a garden shed with a cupola, parking for several cars. Central air throughout (2017), boiler 2015 on three zones, water heater 2023, radon mitigation. Some antique furnishings may stay. No historic restrictions. Perry LSD. Some houses you tour. This one you fall for. Watch the video tour, then come see it.