Her two-story home was built around a house that once belonged to her paternal great-grandparents. She moved the dilapidated 18th-century structure — fireplace and all — to her property in the mid-1990s and with the blood, sweat and tears of a good friend and family, added onto the house. They used wood and materials from other rundown buildings to make the modern home it is today.

via Yale woman makes a project of rescuing old buildings – Richmond Times Dispatch: Home And Garden.