1895 Berlin NH Home with a Four-Bay Garage — $145,000

The garage is the thing. Four bays. On a residential property in a small New Hampshire city, at this price, that is unusual. Whether you need it for vehicles, storage, a workshop, or some combination, four bays is a lot of room to work with, and it is the kind of feature that either matters to you immediately or it does not.

The house itself was built in 1895 and comes in at 1,360 square feet across two floors. There is a front porch, which is one of the better things a house this age can have. Porches on houses from this era tend to have some presence to them, and this one is the reason you stop at the curb.

Inside, the kitchen is the center of the ground floor. It is an eat-in setup with washer and dryer hookups in the room, which is common in older working-class homes in New England and keeps the laundry situation contained without needing a dedicated space. Off the kitchen, there are two additional rooms on the main level. The listing describes them as flexible, which usually means they are smaller rooms without obvious function. What they are in practice depends on what you need. A second sitting room, a home office, a playroom, or a fourth sleeping space if you need it.

The three bedrooms are upstairs. The house has one bathroom.

At $145,000, you are at $106 per square foot, which is low for New Hampshire in general, and reflects where Berlin sits in the state. It is a small northern city that has been economically quiet for a long time. The price is the price for a reason, and if you know the area, you know that going in.

What you get is a 130-year-old house with a front porch, a flexible layout downstairs, three bedrooms up, and that four-bay garage sitting out back. The house has age and the garage has utility. For someone who needs that combination, this makes sense.