Are you looking for that dolphin statue to beautify your property? Look no further than the Kessler Mansion.
“If you can seize it, it may be for sale,” said Jocelyn Dawson, a Highgarden Real Estate agent who was hired by the new owner – who bought the property in the spring and whose identity is unknown – to organize a real estate sale. to the property.
IndyStar got a chance to preview the sale at what some experts in design and architecture have named the “ugliest house in America”.
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Walk along a wooden porch that has a hole big enough for a foot, past a dolphin statue surrounded by a small swamp to a main entrance. Then we get inside at more than six rooms filled with odds and ends for sale.
Garden chairs, swivel chairs and upholstered chairs.
Dining tables, coffee tables and a games table.
A lost and priceless child’s airplane; a $300 “Fruit Works” soda maker and $275 heavy lion wooden and clay statues.
All items are priced and ready for new owners – with some labeled for as low as $1 and others for up to $1,000. One could even purchase a landscaping rock under one of the various dolphin statues if desired.
Exit, under the warning tape hanging from the gutters, and you reach another part of the house where a moldy room with a damp floor and exposed ceiling ventilation is filled with objects like a gas grill and door not attached.
Stroll by the pool which has a thin green film on its surface and find wood benches marked with “Union Station” and more statues.
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“Some of the items are original and some were used during the staging for Airbnb,” Dawson said.
Dawson said the home will no longer be used as a short-term rental property and that the real estate investment group representing the owner is “working with the neighborhood on planning” for next steps. More information will come in mid-July.
The 1953 home was originally owned by Jerry Hostetler, a “pimping mini-construction magnate”, according to a 2012 IndyStar article. Hostetler died in 2006.
Until earlier this year, the property was owned by Chad Folkening, a Hoosier-state-born tech entrepreneur who unsuccessfully tried to sell the house. at least three times in the past decadeeach time for a lower price than the previous one.
Folkening before had an estate sale in 2015.
Kessler Mansion is located at 4923 Kessler Boulevard East Drive. The sale turns Thursday June 16 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., Friday June 17 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday June 18 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Parking will be in a lot in front of the house.
Contact IndyStar reporter Lizzie Kane at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @lizzie_kane17.
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