Otis House Rehab project

Otis House Rehab project Ron and Lisa Schneider with the help of our grown sons, Joe & Doug, hope to save this house

Brzostek’s Real Estate Auction Brochure from 1987💜🥰
02/14/2025

Brzostek’s Real Estate Auction Brochure from 1987💜🥰

02/14/2025

Our house was highlighted in the Cape Vincent, NY and its History page. 💜. I am here to say we have not abandoned the property! We are not looking to sell, and we do not want to let it decay any further! We worked on the house the first year we purchased it from the County Tax Auction. Last summer, honestly, I'm not sure where the summer went. We live in Rochester, which is a three-hour drive. We come up on weekends and spend a week's vacation after French Fest. It does not give us a lot of time to work on the house. We cannot proceed with any work on the house until we fix the foundation of the home. It is in bad shape. We added some blocking and jacks to support some critical areas, but it needs major leveling and foundation work. We hope to begin the work in the spring. My husband and sons work for a construction company. We have materials stockpiled in Rochester that need to be brought up to the Cape. That means coordinating the use of commercial trailers and equipment. We promise it will get done! Our dream is that we will be retired in the next 3-5 years and have a place to call home. We know this house has a rich history. Unfortunately, all that history has already been ripped out. We are going to try and reimagine a new history for the house. The auctioneer who handled the tax auction was the same one who handled the original auction in the 80’s. I am attaching the brochure that was used to promote the sale in 1987. I will be posting our progress on this page, so stay tuned for updates beginning this spring.

Before….. During….After💜
10/13/2023

Before….. During….After💜

Most of the work we are doing to the house is to get it stable for the winter. Part of the basement foundation was caved...
10/12/2023

Most of the work we are doing to the house is to get it stable for the winter. Part of the basement foundation was caved in on the Lake side…

This old house just amazes me! It was built on the early 1800’s. There are tree beams in the rafters and floor joists....
10/12/2023

This old house just amazes me! It was built on the early 1800’s. There are tree beams in the rafters and floor joists. The reason it has remained stand for this long. It was built with mortis and tenon joints that did not break even after pulling the garage down. We managed to save about 5 pegs….

After taking down the garage, we found that house wall was completely rotted. There is nothing left of the sill plate a...
10/12/2023

After taking down the garage, we found that house wall was completely rotted. There is nothing left of the sill plate and corner post .. I think the only holding up that back half of the house is the built in shelving on the wall in the kitchen. We had to add a support beam in the basement and support wall in the kitchen because the will be a project for spring. The interior fouwall fell inward, so we had to move the limestone bricks to another area of the basement to make room.

The art of de-nailing for saving the reclaimed lumber to use in another part of the house 💜. I’ve become a pro 😊😉🤣……
10/12/2023

The art of de-nailing for saving the reclaimed lumber to use in another part of the house 💜. I’ve become a pro 😊😉🤣……

10/11/2023

Three years ago we bought a lot in Real Street. We wanted to be close to my sister and brother-in-law, Julie and Dave Jackson, who owns the mobile home on Gouvello Street. We were planning to build a cottage as a three season retirement home. Fast forward to 2023 and we hear of a house on James Street going on the tax auction block. After reading all the comments about how this house fell into disrepair and it’s history in the Village, we thought let’s buy it!! My husband and two boys are in the construction field… we got this! 😳

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313 S James Street
Cape Vincent, NY
13624

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+15854745030

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