Sisters bring history to life in stone home
The living room in the Schachtner home features a custom built fireplace, original wood floors and two-foot deep window openings. Humboldt Independent photo by Jeff Gargano.
By Jeff Gargano
A historic stone home in Humboldt has been restored and literally saved from being demolished.
Sisters Cheri Zimmerman and Trisha Schachtner have brought the home at 5 Hall Street back to life through a painstaking multi-year restoration process.
Schachtner was a real estate agent when the home was listed. Her mother, Pat Johnson, and a friend wanted to see the house because they knew there was stone underneath the siding.
“Just a tiny bit of stone was visible in the peak,” Schachtner said. Cheri lives nearby in a historic stone house as well and when she heard they were looking at the house she said she wanted to see it.
It turns out the stone house was part of a farm with Cheri’s house being the main home for General John Means. It served as a place for hired hands to stay, as well as a place where meals were prepared. There are two other stone barn structures in the neighborhood that were part of the Means farm. Read more about the restoration efforts and see photos of the finished product in this week's Humboldt Independent Home Edition, 32 pages of articles, photos, advertisements and helpful hints about home preservation, beautification or building new.
