The home of the late Maxine Ohman is one of just three pre-1930s houses on the market for less than $425,000 in Old Town Steamboat.
The Steamboat Pilot recently published an article about an eclectic home in downtown Steamboat Springs which had belonged to Maxine Orhman. At the time of publication, the 4 bedroom, 1 bath (and a small water closet) home was listed for $399,000 and has since been reduced again to $325,000, locking it in as the most affordable multi-bedroom home in downtown Steamboat!
The home certainly needs some love. You will need to look past the bold paint colors and aging appliances to see a unique home in an unbeatable location, just 2 blocks from the heart of downtown Steamboat Springs. It is also sits just across from the big playing field at the George P. Sauer Human Services Center.
The charming portion of the home can be seen in the original built-in, glass-doored dining room hutch and kitchen cabinetry, where a classic 1950s-era electric range still rules the room.
This is a house for someone who appreciates the architecture of another era in Steamboat, with its covered front porch and painted wooden floor in the oversized upstairs bedroom. But it’s also a home on a deep 0.14-acre lot with ample room to add a large master suite with modern comforts. A large bonus room on the east side of the house easily could be adapted to a media room, or, because of its own outside entrance, could function as a mud and laundry room. An overly deep single-car garage sits on the alley between Pine and Oak streets.
The house was built in 1910 by a carpenter named Stuckey and then remodeled in 1968. It comprises 1,725 square feet and has been maintained consistently by a local caretaker. There is a small basement for the natural gas boiler and a crawl space that allows storage of gardening tools and seasonal decorations, for example.
The home has little competition in its price range and age — it’s one of only three early 20th-century homes listed for sale between $350,000 and $425,000. That includes a 1912 one-bedroom, one-bath home at 41 McKinley St. listed by Christine Pearson Real Estate for $399,900. It comprises just 572 square feet, but its strong suit is a 1.3-acre lot very close to the Spring Creek Trail and looking into lower Strawberry Park.
The late Maxine Ohman was a Steamboat Springs fixture, growing up in a family of 11 in a spacious home on Pine Street. She worked at the county Treasurer’s Office for decades and played the organ at Euzoa Bible Church — not just on Sundays, but for joyful weddings and somber memorial services. Her church organ sits in the foyer of her former home.
“She was a very special lady,” longtime friend Vi Look said. “She loved red, and she loved lighthouses.”
Those passions are reflected in the red-flocked wallpaper flanking the modern wood-burning stove in the sitting room and the primary bathroom with its original freestanding bathtub and New England motif. The kitchen, in contrast, is painted in bright pink. The good thing about paint is that it’s easily changed.
