In 1894, a 4,000-sq-ft Illinois Victorian was built; 132 years later, a 67-year-old retiree bought it for $97,500 and has already spent $85,000 restoring just 1,000 sq ft

• Pic credit: Realtor.comRebecca Roucloux Avery, 67, had already done the thing most people aspire to: she owned a brand-new home in Austin, a city people pay premiums to move to.
• She was retired, financially stable, and living in a modern construction built to last.
• But then she left it all for a 132-year-old Victorian home in Vermont, a small town in Illinois, according to a report by Realtor.com.