Call this turreted 1940s bungalow home for $250K

This dwelling that’s straight out of the ’40s is on the lookout for a new operator. 

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

“It’s a truly beautiful put. Magical, I believe,” listing agent Delilah “Dolly” Langer of Edina Realty informed The Write-up of the 2,147-square-foot bungalow. “I love it, and I feel it’s very remarkable that it nonetheless has nearly all its originality still left intact.” 

The three-bedroom household was first made in 1940 and to day has only experienced two entrepreneurs. Its initial inhabitants were being a shop instructor and his artwork instructor wife, who jointly created and made a great deal of the two-lavatory property’s most charming features. 

“From what I fully grasp, she did all the interior design and style and he created a lot of crafted-in things,” as well as some household furniture, including a “really curvy” 2nd-ground desk, Langer stated. “She painted the circus-themed bathroom. They lifted their relatives there.” 

The 2nd proprietor and recent seller only acquired the residence following the couple passed away, and their son put it on the market place. “He enjoys that house and he place a ton into building it his personal,” additional Langer. 

The well-loved minimal abode is set up a established of stone stairs on a grassy great deal across the road from the Mississippi River. At the rear of its small turret of an entrance, the inside is just as vibrant as the outside the house, with yellow partitions and pink carpeting galore on the ground floor. The kitchen is also pink-themed, with pink partitions, a pink tiled ground, pink cabinets, a pink island and a glass-paned pink breakfast nook. The residing space has a fire, as well as pink carpeting. Also on the ground-ground are a turquoise toilet, access to the attached garage and the very first of the three bedrooms. 

Up the turquoise-carpeted stairs is a junior residing home of types, set in the wallpapered recess beneath the sloped roof, the remaining two bedrooms and the circus-themed rest room. 

The block is “well known” for being “very fairly,” but the bungalow has however gotten a reputation amid the other residences for being so exclusive, Langer explained.