The Tryon Toy House is up for sale once again.
Roberta Heinrich, with Walker, Wallace & Emerson Realty, the house is for sale for $249,000. While the house is currently being marketed as a residence, with Heinrich suggesting that it would be a fantastic Airbnb opportunity, the house’s location in Tryon’s central business district and proximity to Trade Street would allow for business use.
“The cottage is darling,” said current owner Katie Hicks.
According to Hicks — the professor emerita of art and art history at USC Upstate, for whom the university’s visual art center is named — the home still features great amentities, many of its original Arts and Crafts architectural elements and its Mother Goose tiles. Hicks and Heinrich both expressed their hope that the home will remain largely unchanged by its next owner.
Hicks said she hopes that someone will be able to turn the Toy House into something that will benefit the town, perhaps an arts-related use, as she had planned when purchasing the property nine years ago. She also said the Toy House could make a great single residence with an art studio or workroom.
