INTOWN EXTRA, MARCH 8, 1990 4ywvutsrponmlkihgfedcbaSJHECA E. Old homes get new lives, dreams in historic Inman Park Residents never Searching for house in bw-crime area, want to leave, family film answer in neighborhood Bob and Betty Ridderhoff neighborliness were important, says area realtor drove 400 miles throughout Atlan- "but we particularly wanted an- "Once you move to Inman ta in search of the right home be- other house that was old," said Park, you don't want to leave. fore deciding on the 19-room yel- Mr. Ridderhoff, 66, who has re- When couples divorce, they low brick house built in 1904 for tired from the sewing machine both usually stay, but in sepa- pioneer developer Joel Hurt business except for editing an an- rate houses," said real estate The Ridderhoffs, who closed nual international guidebook on agent Ruth Wall who has been the deal in December and are sewing machine models. handling properties there now in the process of getting their As president of the firm they since the late 1970s. It was in furniture moved from Los Ange- founded, Bobbette Industries, the late 1960s that the restora- les, were as much sold on the which sells sewing machine parts tion movement in Atlanta's neighborhood as they were on the and supplies, Mrs. Ridderhoff first residential subdivision, house, they said. The $700,000 will make monthly trips back to dating to the late 1880s, began. they paid for the 6,850-square- Los Angeles, where their daugh- It's unusual that three foot house at 85 Elizabeth St, just ter, Valerie El Jamil, is taking prime properties — Callan across Euclid Avenue from Asa over management of the compa- Castle, the Joel Hurt house and Candler's Callan Castle, is be- ny. the Ernest Woodruff house lieved to be a record for Inman The restoration lacked only Park. minor details when the Ridder- have come up for sale at the hoffs bought the house, they said, same time, agents say. "We had a big, historic house, The Hurt house has sold for built in 1910. that we loved in Los with most of the original glass, Angeles, but the drug trafficking marble and woodwork preserved. $700,000, $850,000 is being Wallpaper had been created to asked for Callan Castle and was making life unbearable," said $750,000 for the Woodruff Actor Cordell/Staff Mrs. Ridderhoff. match the original, and the attic Bob and Betty Riddertioff say they found all they were looking for in this was converted into dressing house. Inman Park's reputation for rooms. . . . . „ —Actor Cordell yellow brick house, built in 1904 for pioneer developer Joel Hurt. security, a low crime rate, and —Actor Cordeil