Historic Riverside house getting a face-lift, may go on market
25.07.10
In general, Paris said by phone he bought "a lot less remarkable properties" and sells or leases. But Ames-Westbrook House, with its carved wood trim, beveled-edged mirrors and windows, really caught.
"I had never been anything quite like that," he said. "It was simply spectacular, room after room."
The house is a work in progress.The previous owner was the reconfiguration of some rooms and the plumbing system to turn the 3900 square foot building in an eight-bed-room bed and breakfast, but the work was not completed.
Some fine details remain intact, as the prosecution striped tiger oak pocket doors and the first floor, and original fireplaces and chandeliers. But for now, there is no kitchen and the house was destabilized when the expanded basement. A two-story addition unpermitted built in the 1950s must be demolished.
Source: Press-Enterprise