1880 Frostburg Row House with Two Kitchens and Bay Windows — $94,900

The bay windows are the first thing. They face the street on the main floor, and in a house from 1880, that kind of detail tends to be the real thing rather than a later addition. The hardwood floors run through the living room underneath them. Both are in good shape based on what the listing shows.

This is a two-story, three-bedroom, two-bath house at 1,688 square feet, built in 1880 in Frostburg, Maryland. At $94,900, that works out to about $56 a square foot. For a house this old in decent condition, that's a low number.

The layout is the most practical thing about it. There's a bedroom and a full bath on the main floor, plus laundry on that same level. So you can function entirely on one floor if you need to. The kitchen down there is set up for regular use.

Upstairs there's a second kitchen. The listing calls it a prep space or home office option, but the more direct reading is that this house can support two households. Whether that means a multigenerational setup or a rental unit depends on what you need it for, but the infrastructure is there. Two kitchens, two baths, separate sleeping areas on each floor.

The backyard has mature trees and off-street parking. There's also a shed. The agent description mentions a shaded yard with privacy, which sounds like a decent amount of tree cover for a house on a main street.

Frostburg State University is in this town, which matters if you're thinking about the rental angle. A house that already has a dual-kitchen layout, near a university, for under $100,000, is a specific kind of find.

The house is 144 years old. That means the bones have had time to show their problems if there are any. An inspection here is not optional. But nothing in the listing flags obvious trouble, and the features that tend to go first in old houses — floors, windows, the kitchen — are described as functional and updated.

It's a genuinely old house in a small Maryland college town for a low price, and the layout gives it more than one use case.