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im Kleinman almost didn’t purchase the Stone House in Ironton. He planned to attend an out-ofstate auction but turned his car around in a spur of the moment decision to bid on the home and change the trajectory of his, and the home’s, future. “I knew this house was going to be up for sale,” Kleinman, a local businessman, says. “I turned the opposite way and came down here, walked through it and ended up with my hand up. It was an outside bid, no reserve, and I scratched
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my head and said, ‘boy did I get into a project.’” As a child living a few blocks over, Kleinman and his siblings would often ride their bikes past the Stone House, and he remembers he always admired its charm. Once he moved into his current home, only three doors down from the Stone House, and which he also completely refurbished, it was only a matter of time before the stars aligned for him to purchase the historic home and help restore it to its original beauty.
