This historic San Antonio home for sale may have been a brothel in the 1940s

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A beautifully restored 1905 Victorian home that hit the market earlier this month may have once served as a brothel, according to its owners.

When the 4,200-square-foot property was featured in the 2018 King William Holiday Home Tour, its owners, Ed and Dana Haverlah, told theit had been the residence of a woman in the 1940s who advertised herself as a masseuse.

While that's hardly an illegitimate profession, the Haverlahs pointed out that the same owner had also carved up the bottom floor into multiple small rooms, each with its own wash basin — perhaps a sign that something more than working out knotted muscles transpired inside its walls. Whether the rumor is actually true, the daily's article notes some other interesting — and verifiable — facts about the four-bedroom, four-bath dwelling. For one, the living room's marble fireplace was once part of the pre-statehood Hawaiian Embassy in Mexico City. Additionally, the structure once served as headquarters for San Antonio's City Federation of Women's Clubs.

The residence, on the market for just shy of $1.8 million, also boasts"all of the historic goodies tastefully paired with finishes required by modern homeowners," according to its sales listing. The writeup also gushes that the home features"some of the most beautiful long-leaf pine flooring” the realtor has ever seen.

Also of note, the third floor, which once served as a"lavish" master suite includes a balcony with views of the Tower of the Americas. Additionally, the house is equipped with that rarest of South Texas features: a basement.A 1931 two-story home in Alamo Heights has hit the market after its current owners took it through a major restoration that…Retired AT&T executive Willam E. Dreyer and his wife Linda recently relisted their Olmos Park mansion for just shy of $2.

 

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