This historic Mississippi Coast cottage sold for $700 in 1899. It could be your new home.

You can own a true piece of Mississippi Coast history.

The historic Lang’s Seven Gabled Cottage — also known as the Lang-Madsen House — in Ocean Springs has been listed on the market for $425,000.

The two-story home at 1103 Calhoun Avenue features a Queen Anne Vernacular design, which became popular during the late 1800s.

Specifically, the house has a multiple-gable roof, a gable partial porch and stained glass windows. Its architectural design also boasts a spindle frieze, lace-like brackets, and an intricate chevron pattern in the porch gable.

According to Trixie Mullin Urie, who was raised in the house, the exterior was originally painted a deep-red color.

Lang’s Seven Gabled Cottage stands as one of the oldest buildings within the Old Ocean Springs Historic District.

The lot that the house currently stands on was originally owned by E.W. and Mary T. Clark of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Local blacksmith and land speculator Joseph Kotzum, an immigrant from Bohemia, acquired the property for a modest $25 in cash in May 1887.

In the following years, the cottage’s ownership changed hands, with Emile J. Lang purchasing the lot for $250. Though credited with building the house in 1894, some historical records hint that the dwelling might have been built prior to Lang’s acquisition.

From January to September of 1898, Lang rented the home to Mrs. Joseph Webber of New Orleans, along with her family. Local residents began referring to the home as Lang’s Seven Gabled Cottage.

In 1899, Lang sold the home to recently widowed Margaret “Jennie” L. Madsen for $700.

Supposedly alongside her talking parrot, Madsen quickly went to work and created a garden behind the house. She also owned chickens, cows and goats on the property, which allowed her to provide homemade milk, butter, cheese, eggs and vegetables to the other residents of Ocean Springs.

The Madsen family continued to own and care for the home, while constructing new ones on surrounding lots, for decades.

While the downstairs and exterior have been renovated and updated over the years, the upstairs remains mostly the same as it originally was.

Though passing hands several times and enduring numerous hurricanes and storms over the course of a century, the Lang-Madsen House remains a unique and interesting landmark in downtown Ocean Springs.

The Ocean Springs home, along with over an acre of land, is currently awaiting its next set of owners.