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OPB | Dec. 30, 2014 11 a.m. | Updated: Dec. 30, 2014 4:38 p.m. | Portland

The ultimate home-improvement project is about to hit the market in Oregon. And if you have a few hundred thousand at your disposal, it could be yours nextyear.

The Daily Astorian reportsthat the historic Flavel House will go to auction next month, with aminimum bid of $180,000. The buyer will also be required to pony up for restoration costs because the home is on the National Register of HistoricPlaces.

Potential owners can tour the house next month, and must have$25,000 available for a downpayment. After 30 days, the top two bidders will have another two weeks to up the ante for the four-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home, which has been vacant since1990.

Built in 1901, the 4,644-square-foot Colonial Revival-style house will be sold asis.

Earlier this month, owner Mary Louis Flavel and the Astoria City Council reached an agreement to sell the family home. Flavel conservator Caroline Evans was appointed to sell the residence and other family properties after Flavel racked up more than $1 million in fines for the abandonedbuildings.

Evans said only serious buyers will be allowed to tour the property. To deter tourists, viewers will have to pay $100 per person and must be accompanied by a contractor. Potential buyers will also have to sign liability waivers before entering the boarded uphome.

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When Lenny Fenton first saw Artemesia, he was in his 20s and the owner of a successful advertising firm that Microsoft would eventually buy.

Fenton was put off by the home's exterior, which was dark brown and sun-damaged. "Then I walked in the front door, looked left to the dining room and right to the salon and decided to buy the house right then," he said.

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His only familiarity with the term craftsman was "the tools you buy at Sears," but the place reminded him of a Scandinavian ski lodge.

So began a quarter-century restoration of one of the country's largest craftsman homes, a 13,290-square-foot beauty in the Hollywood Hills with eight bedrooms, seven baths and a ballroom that easily fits 500 people.

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Built by construction magnate Frederick Engstrum in 1913, the home had not had sufficient maintenance since 1939, Fenton said. He has spent millions of dollars installing new foundations, rebuilding the garage, re-creating a redwood terrace and returning the interior to its early splendor.

The name Artemesia goes way back, although it has sometimes been spelled Artemisia, which is the name of two ancient Greek queens and a genus of plants in the daisy family. Fenton pointed to a 1915 article in The Architect magazine that used the name, and said the property at one point had a sign out front with the name.

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To label what happened at an Elk Grove home on Tuesday afternoon as a "close call" might be an understatement -- as a three-decades-old tree toppled into Tracy Tillotson's house.

Tillotson, the homeowner, sensed something before the pine tree came down on Celery Court.

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"I had a premonition," she told KCRA 3. "Something told me to leave the home, so I left for about 10 minutes. And I came back and the tree was in my house."

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Strong winds knocked down trees across Northern California on Tuesday. Two people died in two separate Butte County incidents. And in Davis, a teenage driver escaped serious injury but was still hospitalized after a tree came down on his SUV while driving on Seventh Street.

In Folsom, among other cities, as many as 5,000 people lost power due to a blown transformer. Wind-related issues were rampant by the evening hours.

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Roofing material was illegally dumped on private property off of FM 3087 in Jim Wells County.

Over several days, 22 loads of roofing shingles and gravel roofs were illegally dumped by unknown roofing contractors.

The lock was broken, said Hector Zertuche Sr., Environmental Crime Officer with the Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department. The gate was broken and they gained entry.

Witnesses saw a white pickup truck with hydraulic lift trailer was seen in the area.

The land owner will now have to pay between $5,000 to $6,000 to get rid of the material, Zertuche said.

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