Daily Dose of Blairmont 123

• 2543 Maiden Lane (MLK 3000 LLC, September 2006, $88,800)

May 2008

You might have noticed it in the background of yesterday's Daily Dose. It's a tired little half-flounder alley house, clad in a crazyquilt patchwork of asphalt shingles.


July 2003 - photograph by Kevin Kieffer

But, tired or not, it was inhabited five years ago, before Paul McKee purchased it.

Price bounce: Sold for $74,000 in September 2006, then for $88,800 a month later.

Links:

• 2543 Maiden at the city's Geo St Louis database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com
  
• More on Blairmont:
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