The American people of Dolton, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois, announced on Friday the purchase of the house where the current Pope Leo XIV spent his childhood to make it a historical monument and a center of tourist attraction.
Mayor Jason House informed the Municipal Board of payment of $ 375,000 for the two -story brick house, located in 212 E. 141st Place.
“The house is ours, now we will form a committee to determine its best use,” he said in a statement.
The real estate firm Paramount, based in New York, had planned the auction of the 70 -square -meter house on July 17 with a base price of $ 250,000.
However, Mayor House declared that he negotiated directly with the owner, Pawel Radzik, a housing restorer who had bought it for $ 66,000 last year, when there was no news that there lived who would be elected as the first American Pope, Robert Francis Prevost.
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People where Pope Leo XIV of Niño buys his house to be a historic monument
House indicated that he is in conversations with interested partners about plans to reuse the house, and that local authorities expect Chicago’s archdiocese to participate in the initiative.
The official commented that the house recently received a new roof and improvements inside, but if they declare it historical monument, it may be necessary to restore it to its original appearance, so that it is similar to when Prevost lived there with its family.
Prevost lived with his parents and brothers for many years, the house, which has already become a tourist destination since his election as Pope in May, so the Dolton Police now constantly patrol the neighborhood.
The Pontiff’s parents, the school administrator Louis Prevost who died in 1997, and the Mildred librarian who died in 1990, were owners of the house and lived there for decades, but in 1996 they sold it for $ 58,000.
The current leader of the Catholic Church was born in the southern Chicago zone in 1955, although he spent his childhood in Dolton until he enrolled in a Michigan seminar to study high school in 1969.
With EFE information.
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