Wrecking Cincinnati, 1/22/09

2824 Claypole Avenue, East Price Hill
Single-family
DOB: 1947
Died: December 2008
Cause of death: No building code violations, but a couple of old litter citations. A neighboring property owner says that the house was a wreck for several years.

"Everybody on the street is happy about it," he says.

The owner died last summer, and, once the house cleared probate in October, it was purchased by Cincinnati Christian University for $8,000.

There are no concrete plans for the lot, though it's possible that it could become the site of the university's second Habitat build on the street.