New Orleans | $749,000

An 1836 house with two bedrooms and two bathrooms on 0.07 acres

This two-story house with plantation shutters and a wrought-iron balcony is in the Marigny neighborhood, three blocks east of the music clubs on Frenchmen Street. Walk another block west, and you’re in the French Quarter. Built as a single-family home for Jean Baptiste Lamothe, a goldsmith and jeweler who died in 1874, the concrete-and-brick house was eventually turned into a duplex. It was restored to its original configuration in 1994, and renovated over the last two decades with a new kitchen and bathrooms, as well as a rebuilt front wall and a new balcony. Buyers may opt to purchase the furniture.

Size: 1,920 square feet

Price per square foot: $390

Indoors: The front door opens into a 14-foot-wide living room with stained concrete floors (found throughout the lower level) and a wall of exposed brick with a decorative fireplace.

The kitchen follows, shotgun style, with wood cabinets wrapping around a corner, next to a second decorative fireplace, and with space in the center for a table or island. The following room could be used for dining. Finally, there is a study that opens to a rear vestibule leading to the backyard or upstairs, and a bathroom with a shower.

The main bedroom is at the front of the house and holds double sets of French doors that open to the upstairs balcony overlooking Mandeville Street. Like the main level, it has brick walls and a decorative fireplace, but the flooring is heart pine. Pocket doors open to a sitting room with a pair of closets. The bathroom is along a corridor beyond that and has ceramic floor and wall tile, a walk-in shower, and a washer and dryer. The second bedroom is at the rear.