Owners of the house at 1145 N.W. 39th have taken to “The Social Network” to find a buyer. Visitors to facebook. com/1145NW39thSt can tour the residence’s rooms via photos, as well as be enticed with wall posts that touts its convenience to nearby retail shops and eater ies along Western Avenue: “City restaurants are a hop, skip and a jump away!” and “LOVE buying special gifts and flowers at A Date With Iris! I walk over and get the best custom floral arrangements and beautiful vases.”
It’s not exactly what Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had in mind — at all — but if the creative approach gets the place sold, certainly someone’s “Like” button will be pushed. —Gazette staff
This article appears in Apr 27 – May 3, 2011.