This Old House Charleston Houses Today: Season 39

Season 39 of This Old House ended in Charleston, South Carolina, with two houses in two different downtown neighborhoods. I keep coming back to this pair because they are the cleanest test of what "where are they now" can actually mean. Both houses have a public record from 2025 or 2026, and the two records point in opposite directions: one came on the market, and the other is for rent. Neither house is a mystery. But one of them has an unanswered question at the end of it.

One note on addresses before I start, because it matters for both houses. The single house in Ansonborough is no longer listed for sale, so I'm not printing its house number — the same rule I've used in the other "where are they now" posts. The Victorian in Elliotborough is listed for rent right now, so its address is public and I do print it.

The season

The Charleston episodes were the second half of Season 39: ten episodes, premiering 29 March 2018. The first half of the season had been the Generation NEXT house in Newton, Massachusetts — the one where eight apprentices worked alongside the crew. Charleston was a two-house stretch in one city, and the two houses could hardly be more different: a brick single house that had been in one family for 80 years, and a wood-frame Victorian that had stood empty for years.

The Ansonborough single house

What it was

The first house is an 1840s brick Charleston single house in the Ansonborough neighborhood — one room wide, with first- and second-floor side porches, or piazzas, running the full length of the house. The main house was 1,925 square feet: a parlor and dining room downstairs, two bedrooms up, a garret on the third floor. Behind it stood a detached kitchen house, once used for food preparation and laundry, joined to the main house by a two-storey brick connector built sometime before 1884.

Scott and Kathleen Edwards had searched for almost two years before they found it. They had moved to Charleston from Michigan years earlier, raised their children in the suburbs, and rehabbed a downtown house as a long-term rental before deciding they wanted to move back into the city themselves. They bought this one for-sale-by-owner from an estate. It had been in the same family for 80 years, and, in Scott's words, "not much, if any, work had been done in a long time."

What the show did

Architect Bill Huey drew up the plans, and local contractor Mark Regalbuto of ReNew Urban built them. The work started with repointing all the brickwork with lime mortar and restoring the windows, then moved inside: the plaster and lath came off the perimeter walls to expose the interior brick, the original dining room became the kitchen, and the old kitchen house became the dining room, with guest quarters above. New heart-pine flooring went in, and three separate heating and cooling systems — one for the first floor, one for the second and third, one for the kitchen house. The finished house was 2,737 square feet, three bedrooms and three and a half baths. It took eight months, and the cast and crew held the wrap party on 8 March 2018.

Where it is now

In February 2025 the house came on the market for the first time since the Edwards bought it from the estate. The ChuckTown Report featured it as its "Historic Home of the Week" on 15 February 2025: three bedrooms, three and a half baths, 2,836 square feet, asking $4,295,000. The MLS listing (MLS #25003990) says the same thing in its own words — "first time on the market since the current owners acquired the property from an estate" — and names the restoration team: ReNew Urban, architect Bill Huey, landscape architect Glen Gardner, with the restoration "overseen and documented by the National Television Series 'THIS OLD HOUSE.'" The listing also describes what the show's cameras never really showed: the walled rear courtyard, with a custom wrought-iron gate built by students at the American College of the Building Arts, mature plantings, an outdoor kitchen, and a large heated saline pool.

And then it went quiet. The listing now shows Status: Off Market. I found no record of a sale — no sale price, no sale date. Whether it sold, and for how much, is not publicly known, and neither is whether the Edwards still own it. The ask was $4.295 million. That's the last public number on this house.

My take

This is the one to watch. A $4.295 million ask on a house the show restored is a real data point, not a guess — but an ask isn't a sale, and an off-market listing isn't a closing. If a sale price surfaces, it will tell us what a televised restoration is worth in Ansonborough seven years on. Until then, the honest answer is that we know the price it asked, and nothing after that.

The Elliotborough Victorian

What it was

The second house is a two-storey Victorian wood-frame house in the Cannonborough/Elliotborough neighborhood, built around 1890. Judith Aidoo-Saltus bought it from her mother in 1998. It had been her grandparents' house — she spent childhood summers there, traveling from Washington, D.C., sitting on the porch with her grandmother while the neighborhood passed by. After she bought it, it stood empty for more than 15 years while life got in the way: first New York, then suburban Washington, then Ghana, where her grandmother had retired.

By the time the show arrived, the house was in rough shape. Holes in the roof had let water in for years; beams, trim, and interior doors had been hollowed out by termites; the plaster was crumbling, the floors sagging, rot had undermined the pier-and-beam foundation, and vines and moss grew between the Dutch-lap siding. The stacked front porches — double Greek Revival–style porches, unusual for Charleston, where most Victorian-era houses are single houses with side porches — were structurally unsound and in danger of collapse. Tom Silva's first thought, he said, was teardown. The family connection and the city's Board of Architectural Review made that impossible.

What the show did

Local architectural designer Andrew Gould drew up the plans, and Flyway Construction did the work: a down-to-the-studs renovation. The crew jacked the house up, replaced rotted girders, added new piers, and repointed the old ones. They rebuilt the porches, restored the pine staircase and the pocket doors, converted the four fireplaces to gas, and added a two-storey addition at the back — a guest room on the ground floor, a master suite above — with a second set of stacked porches, square columns this time, looking over a walled back garden. The kitchen moved and opened up, separated from the dining room by a period-appropriate arch. New wiring, plumbing, and forced-air heating and cooling went in. The house was painted a warm gray.

And it won something. In February 2019 the Preservation Society of Charleston gave the house its Carolopolis Award for Best Renovation — the award for exceptional exterior restoration. Remember that, because it's the detail that gets mixed up: the award belongs to this house, not the single house.

Where it is now

The Victorian is listed for rent. As of this writing, 94 Bogard Street is on Zillow at $6,900 a month — three bedrooms, three and a half baths, 2,772 square feet, available 1 August 2027, managed by Proper Stays LLC. The listing history tells its own small story: it was listed on 13 August 2026 at $5,999, then repriced to $6,900 on 18 October 2026. The listing copy name-checks the show and the Carolopolis Award, and it gets one thing wrong: it calls the show "HGTV's 'This Old House.'" It's PBS, not HGTV. The copy also says the house "has been in the owner's family for some 50 years" — that's the rental listing's wording, and I haven't verified it; This Old House's account is the one I've used here, that Judith bought it from her mother in 1998 after spending her childhood summers there.

My take

A house that stood empty for years, was saved because its owner couldn't bear to tear it down, won the city's preservation award, and is now a $6,900-a-month rental is a very Charleston story. The rent is the "now" fact here, and it's a live one — the listing is up as I write this, and the price has already moved once. If you want to see what the renovation looks like today, the listing photos are the closest thing to a revisit the show ever got.

Don't mix the two houses up

They're easy to confuse, and other sites do. The brick single house is in Ansonborough; the wood-frame Victorian is in Cannonborough/Elliotborough. The single house belongs to Scott and Kathleen Edwards; the Victorian belongs to Judith and Julia Aidoo-Saltus. The $4.295 million ask belongs to the single house; the Carolopolis Award belongs to the Victorian. One is off the market with no verified sale. The other is for rent right now.

What I couldn't verify

• Whether the Ansonborough single house sold after its February 2025 listing, and for how much. The listing is now off-market with no sale price or date I could find.
• Whether Scott and Kathleen Edwards still own the single house.
• The exact build year of the single house: the listing says 1840, This Old House says 1840s.
• How long the Victorian stood empty. This Old House's own pages disagree: the project page says more than 15 years, the award write-up says thirty. I used the project page's figure, because it's the one tied to Judith's own account.
• The Post and Courier ran a follow-up with the Charleston homeowners in November 2018. The article is paywalled and I couldn't read it, so nothing in this post comes from it.

Bottom line

Seven years on, both Charleston houses are still standing and both are still in the public record — one asking $4.295 million and then going quiet, the other renting for $6,900 a month. The Victorian's story has an ending, or at least a current chapter. The single house's doesn't, not yet. If it sold, the price isn't public. That's the one to watch.

Sources

• Charleston Single House: Built to Last — This Old House, 9 March 2018
• Charleston Project Wrap Party — This Old House, 9 March 2018
• Charleston-Elliotborough House: Reclaiming Her Past — This Old House, 15 June 2018
• This Old House Charleston Project Wins Prestigious Preservation Award — This Old House, 7 February 2019
• This Old House Charleston Episodes to Premiere Thursdays on SCETV — SCETV, 18 March 2018
• Historic Home of the Week — The ChuckTown Report, 15 February 2025
• Ansonborough single house, MLS #25003990 — Beach-Homes.com (listing now Off Market)
• 94 Bogard St, Charleston, SC 29403 — Zillow (rental listing, accessed November 2026)

Listing prices change. The Zillow rent was $6,900 a month when I checked it in November 2026; the MLS listing for the single house is off-market as of the same check.