A Five-Bedroom House With History Near Uruguay’s Coast$975,000 (43 MILLION URUGUAYAN PESOS)Built as a general store in the late 19th century, this five-bedroom home sits at the boundary of Pueblo Eden, a rural village in the Maldonado Department of southern Uruguay, about 25 miles from the popular resort city of Punta del Este. The 6,800-square-foot house was purchased by its current owners, Margarita Arsenault, an expatriate Canadian, and her husband, Michael Arsenault, in 2009, and restored over several years. The couple renewed the structure’s original stone walls and added doors and flooring they purchased on trips to Brazil and around Uruguay. “They maintained its historic character by using materials salvaged from old estancias,” or estates, said Bettina Waldraff of Team Haverkate at Engel & Volkers, one of several agencies listing the property. “Their mission was to restore the building to its former glory.”

Source: International New York Times March 24, 2021 13:30 UTC