1840s-era Union Hill house offered for sale, relocation ahead of pending demolition

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Facing the wrecking ball after being deemed structurally unsafe, a nearly 200-year-old home in Richmond’s Union Hill neighborhood has weeks to find a buyer before becoming history.

Area real estate agent Jennie Dotts is working with owner Chris Pollock to try to find a buyer willing to rehab or relocate the 1840s-era house at 2228 Cedar St.

The two-story home atop a prominent English basement fronts Cedar at its crossroads with Jessamine Street, just west and across 23rd Street from Metzger Bar & Butchery restaurant.

Pollock, a house rehabber who purchased the cottage in December, had planned to preserve and renovate it before discovering foundation problems and other structural issues that he said makes rehabbing the building too expensive for him t