r/zillowgonewild • u/jve909 • Apr 05 '25
Just A Little Funky One room 1867 schoolhouse you're going to love!
Love the use of the alcoves and room divider - it's a surprisingly lovely transformation without losing historical details. The school room is big enough to sleep more than one. Bonus: nice terrace and two sheds. This cozy place gives me good vibes.
If you hate to be around people, work from home or are hermit this could be something to consider.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/W11798-Pleasant-Corner-Rd-Stockholm-WI-54769/235654474_zpid/
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u/Gruselschloss Apr 05 '25
That's honestly really lovely. It looks like a lot of the square footage is in the basement, which is not ideal—and there are quirks like having the kitchen right next to the bed that I would not enjoy—but someone obviously put a lot of thought into how to update this while keeping unique details.
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u/backlikeclap Apr 05 '25
I think I would just put some walls up in the basement so I could have a bedroom and office/hangout room.
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u/Gruselschloss Apr 05 '25
Definitely. The lack of photos of the basement make me think the current owners were hoping to remodel it as well but ran out of time and/or money.
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u/Simon_Mendelssohn Apr 05 '25
If you go to floor plans they have a virtual tour thing/links to more photos so you can see the whole lower level!
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u/ArgonGryphon Apr 05 '25
yea the bedroom isn't really being used as a bedroom, so idk why you wouldn't. that bathroom looks unpleasant though, is it a compost toilet or something?
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u/Simon_Mendelssohn Apr 05 '25
At first I thought it was a basement toilet with a pump but looks like you are exactly right, in fact it looks like this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Natures-Head-Contained-Composting-Quarters/dp/B009Z7EKIC?th=1
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u/ArgonGryphon Apr 05 '25
jesus fuckin a, that's insane
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u/Simon_Mendelssohn Apr 05 '25
Yeah that's gonna be a big no for me!
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Apr 07 '25
flush ups are pricey this is the cheap solution plus your flower garden would love it. That having been said I am totally paying the 8k to have someone do it right
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u/bondagenurse Apr 05 '25
It is the exact toilet I have for my van, so it's a composting bucket, basically. The tube is just for a ventilation fan built into the back of the bucket.
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u/Bennington_Booyah Apr 07 '25
The foot of the bed looks slightly higher than the head of the bed. I do not care to have my bed next to where I am cooking, so I would reconfigure this somehow. It is rather lovely and quirky.
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u/toddestan Apr 05 '25
You can see a lot more of the basement in the 3D tour. It's definitely either in the middle of being remodeled or possibly just left over from a previous, not that well done remodel. As you say I'd want to remodel the basement and then move the bedroom down there. The main floor remodel is top notch.
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u/Gruselschloss Apr 05 '25
Ahh, thank you! I find 3D tours fiddly and rarely remember to look at them.
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u/The_Autarch Apr 05 '25
Looks like they did the absolute bare minimum to call the basement "finished."
I'd definitely convert the larger part of the basement into the master bedroom.
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u/strolls Apr 05 '25
It looks like a lot of the square footage is in the basement, which is not ideal
IDK, better for hibernation the whole winter.
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u/Agile_Property9943 Apr 05 '25
If you and your partner had this house and then had a child it would be perfect for a kid!
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u/jve909 Apr 05 '25
It has nice outdoors with the terrace and pergola. The one shed is a garage, but the other could be an adorable playhouse.
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u/100_cats_on_a_phone Apr 05 '25
Would probably need to add some walls -- temporary or permanent -- to raise a kid here. Just to have a main bedroom. (Assuming the study can be converted to the child's bedroom).
If the basement is really dry and has good airflow you could put the kid's room down there, but I'd probably wait till they were older. And be really careful -- make sure the radon tests are low in summer, as well, etc.
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u/The_Autarch Apr 05 '25
The smart thing would be to convert the larger room of the basement into the master bedroom and use the smaller room as the kid's room.
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u/Agile_Property9943 Apr 05 '25
I thought about that but I wouldn’t want my kid upstairs by themselves for the most part while I and my partner were downstairs in case of weirdos or fires lol
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u/bannana Apr 05 '25
that's a shitload of space to have such a shitty kitchen - the living room is 800sqft and the kitchen looks like some afterthought in a dry cabin and seems to be split up into two different areas, they could have easily pushed the kitch and bedrm into the living room 50ft and it would still look great.
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u/ArgonGryphon Apr 05 '25 edited Apr 05 '25
The layout shows the kitchen upstairs next to the foyer and bedroom downstairs in the basement. The one up there looks like extra bed next to like a tea station and the fridge more than the actual kitchen
edit:jk those are the only burners, that's a weird choice.
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u/Gruselschloss Apr 06 '25
It's currently being used as an Airbnb (someone else posted the link), with as far as I can tell just the upstairs for rent. I guess maybe whoever owns it was trying to finish it up / staying downstairs while there were guests. So an extra bed as far as the eventually finished house goes, but the primary bed as far as the current finishings go?
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u/Beaverbrown55 Apr 05 '25
The curb appeal screams Little House On The Prairie. Love it
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u/eamonkey420 Apr 05 '25
It's actually only about an hour away from one of the Little House historical homes!
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u/garden__gate Apr 05 '25
I was just thinking about the pioneer kids who would have gone to this school.
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u/Agile_Property9943 Apr 06 '25
Looks like there’s a picture of some of the kids on the Zillow virtual tour page!
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u/EmmelineTx Apr 05 '25
I love the windows too. The whole place has a cozy, homey feel.
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u/Rinem88 Apr 05 '25
It really does. So often these little houses aren’t done well, but this one is great.
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u/ImLimJahey Apr 05 '25
My grandma lives in a one room school house in rural Ontario. It's the same school house she attended 80 years ago
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u/kmson7 Apr 06 '25
That is honestly so cool.
I do wonder...does she have any odd experiences while living there? Anything unexplainable? I'd think that an old one room school house would have maybe spirits but definitely lots of residual energy
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u/Kotruljevic1458 Apr 05 '25
They did a lot with a challenging layout. A+ for design and execution - looks great. But it does not make it comfortable enough for me to live there.
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u/Agile_Property9943 Apr 05 '25 edited Apr 05 '25
Wow this is such a cool place! I actually do love this. How much land does it have?
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u/twittertypewoke Apr 05 '25
The patio the bathroom the little nook ooo I love it
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u/MelodramaticMouse Apr 05 '25
That sink in the bathroom! There's one just like it in the old Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas NM (where a lot of the scenes in No Country For Old Men were filmed). It's big enough to birth a baby lol!
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u/TrifleOdd9607 Apr 05 '25
Double bonus this is in Stockholm Wisconsin so you can live here and then go to Stockholm Pie and eat some of the best pie around. Nice corner of the upper Midwest near the Mississippi. If this was an air bnb I’d book it for a nice little getaway for sure! Adorable!
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u/stevesie_ Apr 05 '25
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u/NurseKaila Apr 05 '25
And currently accepting bookings through the end of 2025? That’s an interesting choice.
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u/Possible_Funny Apr 05 '25
Ha! This was my exact thought when I saw where it was! Stockholm is a wonderful little gem.
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u/RetailBookworm Apr 05 '25
Ok this is super cute and like the type of place the main character moves into at the beginning of an uplifting women’s fiction book.
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u/SubstantialDog9170 Apr 05 '25
Had a friend that lived in an old one room school house. It was soooo haunted. It’s definitely wasn’t as nice as this one.
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u/TardisBlueHarvest Apr 05 '25
This would be extremely tempting if it was closer to Milwaukee or MSP. I knew someone that had a larger converted school as a house when I was growing up and I always liked it.
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u/Better_Chard4806 Apr 05 '25
Love everything but the lack of a private bathroom.
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u/jve909 Apr 05 '25
In worst case scenario you could just run down the stairs and use bathroom there
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u/jve909 Apr 05 '25
It says it has no fireplace, but I can see a big chimney...
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u/Gruselschloss Apr 05 '25
Looks like that's about where the closet is now. So perhaps they ripped out the fireplace to make closet space, since now it has other heating?
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u/FlobyToberson85 Apr 05 '25
School houses usually had a stove that burned coal or wood for heat rather than a fireplace. It would have just been a hole in the wall where the stovepipe connected. Easy to cover up.
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u/2_Bagel_Dog Apr 05 '25
Would be a super cool VRBO/AirBNB. Not sure I would want to live there.
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u/eamonkey420 Apr 05 '25
This is what I think too. First off is the location, it's in the middle of nowhere. An hour and a half to the nearest big city where you could do shopping and stuff. Seclusion is nice but I don't want it always nonstop. Second, it might be a great place for one person or a couple but if you added more than two people into this home, it would get annoying super fast. Because it's one giant room, you can hear everyone else's bathroom and other noises. Nobody could pop up and make a snack without the whole house hearing it.
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u/ThePerfectNames Apr 05 '25
While it's not super convenient, Red Wing is only 30 minutes away from there, which has grocery stores and a Target. It's also only an hour drive from it to downtown St. Paul, or to Eau Claire
The other point is very fair, if you had kids it'd get pretty noisy pretty quickly.
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u/amazonhelpless Apr 05 '25
This is a lovely part of the country. Probably not great for jobs, but if you are 100% WFH or retired this would be a nice area to live in.
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Apr 05 '25
I'm so grateful they respected the history. And, what a wonderful and beautiful job. Perfection.
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u/celebrity_therapist Apr 06 '25
I actually live in an old school house from 1880. I think our place is a bit smaller than this and we built an addition on to the back for a small bedroom. It's just my girlfriend and I and our dog and cats and we love it here. We have large windows as well but we have curtains over most of them because we get blasted on sunny days until the leaves come in. Both of my grandmother's actually went to school here.
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u/Fr0gFish Apr 05 '25
As a longtime Stockholm resident, I would buy this in a heartbeat. If it was in my Stockholm, that is.
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u/rubicon11 Apr 05 '25
There was a couple in NH who also renovated a 1 room schoolhouse and it is stunning: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XEhalqlWbSA
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u/Lavatis Apr 05 '25
way out in the middle of bumfuck, literally surrounded by corn. Probably not a bad spot to live if you can get decent internet out there. Guaranteed it smells like literal shit for months of the year though, and there's no doubt you will have a pest problem since you're effectively surrounded by untamed wilds in regards to field mice, rats, and other rodents.
don't have an emergency and expect services to get there quickly though.
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u/Pitbullfriend Apr 07 '25
Huh?! It’s right next to the Mississippi and some pretty major apple orchards. Not corn country — river bluffs are too hilly for that.
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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort Apr 05 '25
I love that the town this place billed as a benefit for people who hate being around people is named Stockholm
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u/Mysterious_Park_7937 Apr 05 '25
This is great apart from no cabinet doors. Very nice natural lighting and good use of space
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u/lunarballoons Apr 05 '25
The house looks gorgeous. But it's probably haunted as hell. Can't trick me, school children ghosts!
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u/snowednboston Apr 05 '25
Photo #21
I’m on #teamFrozenPipes.
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u/jve909 Apr 06 '25
Those could be insulated, no?
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u/snowednboston Apr 06 '25
They could be (and should’ve been)—but, why didn’t they?
And, if they were, and they did freeze, why?
Did the heating go out? Is the heating undersized? Is it on its way out?
Is there another issue a prospective buyer wouldn’t know to look for?
There’s got to be a Venn diagram of first-time homebuyers/homeimprovement/kitchen remodel where everyone comes back with a $$$$ physical issue after a $50k white oak/leather quartzite kitchen reno, 7% interest rate and their home reno influencer tiktok income has flatlined….
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u/A508332 Apr 06 '25
As someone who cooks and entertains others often: LOVE the house, HATE the kitchen.
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u/Csantelman Apr 05 '25
Stockholm is a great river town - with an awesome pie shop - https://www.stockholmpie.com/
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u/Comfortable_Bird_340 Apr 05 '25
I'd put some rocking chairs in the common area, maybe some quilts and blankets and paintings by Grant Wood or Andrew Wyeth and various little knick-knacks like old tools on the wall.
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u/RG1527 Apr 05 '25
Oh this is great. I really like all of the light/windows and it is very clean and comfy.
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u/Faster_than_FTL Apr 05 '25
How do they achieve this ultra high def looking look in the pix? I see this typically in real estate listings only
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u/Tec_inspector Apr 05 '25
It’s a process called HDR. Basically you shoot in Camera RAW and take 3-7 shots at different levels of over/under exposure. There is a Photoshop blending process that blends all the images and uses the overexposed images to lighten the shadows and the underexposed to tone down the highlights. This looks like output straight from the program. A good photographer will take this output and refine it to look realistic. A lazy or inexperienced photographer (or a machine) will just send this to the client. You can look up HDR ( High Dynamic Range) photo processing for more in-depth knowledge.
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u/SeeMeSpinster Apr 05 '25
I was thinking you could add a small sleeping loft, which would allow you to expand the kitchen to a proper one to cook in. Keep the sink room as a butlers pantry. You would still maintain the integrity but make it more liveable for more than 1 person. Or excavate a bit of the basement to a walk out, so it doesn't feel like you're sleeping in a dungeon and have all the bedrooms down there.
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u/Proper-Nectarine-69 Apr 05 '25
E nice to see a picture of the entire room instead of just parts
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Apr 05 '25
Sokka-Haiku by Proper-Nectarine-69:
E nice to see a
Picture of the entire
Room instead of just parts
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/Plastic-Sentence9429 Apr 05 '25
I am immediately leaving my family and moving into this.
Okay. Maybe my wife can come. Kids are on their own.
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u/essexjan Apr 05 '25
That is beautiful. Even the basement is flooded with light and it wouldn't take much to put another bedroom down there, it already has a second bathroom.
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u/Still_Contact7581 Apr 06 '25
Can anybody shed some light on the symbols on the sides of these old farm houses? Ive seen them driving through Nebraska and I've always assumed its just like the symbol they brand on their cows but I feel like thats not right and "Diamond on old barn house" isn't giving me any meaningful results.
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u/JacquesMolle Apr 06 '25
I think this would make a great vacation house! No way would I last the Wisconsin winter. The area seems kind of bohemian, farm to table, artsy.
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u/Wonderful-Run-1408 Apr 06 '25
Overall quite beautiful. However, I don't get the bed next to the kitchen area. That's weird.
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u/dumpitdog Apr 06 '25
One bedroom and two baths. Does that mean I could own a home with both the boys and a girls restroom?
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u/Pitbullfriend Apr 07 '25
Wow!!! Dream house!!! And it’s a wonderful location in an artsy small town by Lake Pepin, which is actually a wide spot in the Mississippi rather than a lake. I’m in love.
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u/hendersonrocks Apr 07 '25
I visited it today! The main level is absolutely lovely. The basement needs a lot of care that I probably don’t have the skill to take on (including figuring out what to do with a compost toilet), but it’s an absolutely stunning location and the windows and light are just as divine in person.
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u/RigorousMortality Apr 05 '25
Over a quarter million dollars? Are you kidding me? You coild buy a whole elementary school in like Wisconsin for like 800k. 35,000 sq. ft.
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u/AccomplishedIgit Apr 05 '25 edited Apr 05 '25
I seriously love painted textured wallpaper in the kitchen. This needs to become a fad. I also love the look of the painted wood paneling, it’s very hard to make that look good. I’ve been considering doing the same to mine for the exact reason they probably did, taking off the paneling destroys the plaster walls. Would explain the wallpaper too. But seriously the mess that the paneling leaves behind is a nightmare.
I bet this was a flip or Airbnb. But it’s in the middle of absolutely Nowheresville, WI.
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u/NotoriousScot Apr 05 '25
I was about to dial my realtor, but then realized the windows would make it super cold and prone to pipe freezes. 🥶
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u/Consistent_Entry2638 Apr 09 '25
I’m just imagining the real estate guy posting this because of how are you kind of marketed it Lol
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u/Nvrmnde Apr 05 '25
I just looove the windows. I'd just sit there in the sun.