5 Franklin St, Amesville, OH 45711

Amesville is that iconic Small-Town USA. It's a sleepy, quiet little town where neighbors stop and talk with one another while taking walks with their children and dogs. Yards are dotted with flowers and vegetable gardens. Driving through it, you're hard pressed to resist the impulse to stop and eat at the corner restaurant and then take a stroll through the park across the road while you eat an ice cream cone. Over the years, a green-living culture has emerged in this town and the surrounding area. It's about 15-20 minutes from Athens, home of the near legendary Athens Farmer's Market. This 3 bedroom 2 bath home is a turn of the century 2-story beauty that still has all the charm you'd expect from an old house as well as enough modern conveniences to make living here a pleasure. The mechanicals have all been updated, and the roof is a new metal roof. Three basement walls were just completely re-built. The updated galley kitchen has cool built-in cabinetry coupled with a new gourmet gas range and French-door fridge. The dining room has a built-in china cabinet. A gas fireplace in the living room keeps the winter chill off. Two enclosed porches and a 12' x 19' deck offer room to expand the living quarters in any season. Usually with old houses, you're lucky to have a bath and a half. This one has two full baths, and a bedroom and laundry on the main level. One of those full baths is in a mud room just off the deck, which is really handy considering the seven-car garage that comes with this house. It could be an artist studio, a workshop, a mechanic's dream - the only thing limiting it is your imagination. As if all this wasn't enough, according to the current owner, you can use the adjoining lot that belongs to the village as long as you keep it mowed. And one of the best features: it's about two blocks from the elementary school.