Old small-town bank in South Dakota converted into home

VOLIN, SD (KTIV) – Volin, South Dakota is a cute, calm and quiet city of simply over 170 individuals. It’s additionally dwelling to one of the vital distinctive properties you’ll see.

This constructing, initially opened in 1890, housed each the city financial institution and library. And with its sturdy basis, it’s stood the take a look at of time.

“It’s obtained large granite rocks for a basis,” stated Michelle Maloney, Dealer/Proprietor of Maloney Actual Property in Vermillion, SD. “And for those who look on the skin, there’s not one, like, crack taking place. I imply, this factor is constructed so solidly.”

When somebody finally strikes into the house, it gained’t have been the primary time that individuals lived within the outdated Volin Financial institution.

Again in 2004, two locals purchased the financial institution from the city and lived there for over a decade. And people two have been truly well-known figures in the local people.

These two have been movie director Charles Nauman, who helped make films corresponding to Johnny Vik, Tahtonka, and Holy Man: The USA vs Douglas White, and his spouse, famend Norwegian textile artist Grete Bodøgaard. After buying the financial institution from the city, they started working changing it right into a livable dwelling.

“They, at the moment, turned the teller station into, like, the kitchen space, after which turned the managers workplace right into a bed room,” stated Maloney. “After which there was one other space, it was proper outdoors the vault, and so they sort of made {that a} second lounge. After which the again, what would’ve been like a fireplace room, I feel they was an workplace and laundry room.”

Sadly, Charles and Grete each handed away within the mid-2010s, and the bankhouse has been vacant ever since.

Although the home might now want some work earlier than it’s able to be lived in, that hasn’t stopped it from catching individuals’s eyes throughout the globe.

“Nicely, I seemed on the best way right here, and the publish from Low cost Previous Homes on Instagram had 45,361 likes,” stated Maloney. “I feel over the weekend I had over 300 registrations on my web site from individuals all around the world.”

Maloney is aware of that with the correct proprietor, the house could possibly be a particular place.

“I might like to see someone do one thing with it as a result of it simply must be cherished.”

A suggestion was just lately positioned on the house in early June, and is predicted to shut in August.

Whereas we might not understand how a lot they paid, we do understand it was in all probability fairly the discount: The house was beforehand listed for simply $87,000.

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