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My husband and I bought our first house one year shy of its 100th birthday. It was a stick-built home, a working man’s cottage, a doggedly functional 1.5 stories in an old urban neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota. We moved in enamored with its still-unpainted woodwork and thrilled to have caught the last summer of low prices after the 2008 financial crisis.
Bonnie Kristian is deputy editor at Christianity Today and author of books including In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers (forthcoming September 2026).
