Family fixes up historic Carmel home saved from demolition

CARMEL, Ind. (WISH) The terms fixer-upper and flipping a house have become part of the vocabulary for people who do the fixing.

Once in awhile, that work is done on local landmarks. Theres one you may have seen on a suburban drive in Carmel over the years. It had deteriorated enough that demolition became a possibility. But, thats no longer true for a place called the McShane House.

Emily Ehrgott and her family found what they wanted at the house, but at a time it didnt look so great.

It was falling down, Ehrgott said.

The house is the heart of a picture a photographer called Fear. Thats how run down it was when the Ehrgotts bought it.

It was kind of twice as much as what we expected, Ehrgott said.

After more than a year of rebuilding and blogging about it they restored the McShane House along Rangeline Road in Carmel.

It was a house that really wasnt touched very much, Ehrgott said. A lot of people just moved in and kind of painted. And so this was a house that we felt like we could bring back to life pretty easily.

And they did buying it in August of 2013, fixing it, then moving in this past August.

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Family fixes up historic Carmel home saved from demolition