713 Lee Street East from Lee Street: a two-story red brick building with storefront windows
Charleston, WV · For lease or sale

713 Lee Street East

An early-1900s brick building, gutted to its outer walls and rebuilt in 2013 with a $931,000 historic restoration. Four conference rooms, private offices, an elevator, and high-end finishes throughout.

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5,000sq ft total
4conference rooms
3offices and workrooms
6restrooms
Floor plans

Walk through it, or see it as your office

Tap any room for photos and Teresa Evans's own description from her video tour. Switch the view to see how the same rooms could work for a different kind of business.

Floor
View

Redrawn from the original architectural plans (Ed Weber Architects, sheet A1-0). Room widths follow the plan's dimensions; depths are measured from the drawing and approximate. Lee Street is at the left.

List every room on the first floor
Video tour

Walk through with Teresa

Teresa Evans walks through the whole building, room by room (5 minutes). Jump to a room below, or use "Watch this room" on the floor plan.

The building's story

From abandoned restaurant to restored office

  1. Early 1900s

    Built on Lee Street. Over the decades it served as a dry cleaner, a storefront, a restaurant and several other businesses.

  2. Before 2013
    It was an old abandoned restaurant and had rats running around and holes in the floor and trees growing out of the side of it.
    Teresa Evans, owner
  3. 2013

    Gutted down to the outside walls and rebuilt as a custom historic-preservation remodel for a court reporting firm, which is why the building is mostly conference and deposition rooms.

    The back wall fell off during construction. Rebuilding it with the original brick, for the historic preservation, cost about $100,000. The elevator cost about another $100,000.

  4. The finish

    High-end woodwork, tile and electrical finishes throughout: faux painting, imported light fixtures and tile, custom built-ins, stone conference tables and the original brick left exposed.

  5. Today

    Available for lease or purchase, ready for a law firm or another professional group.

Documented renovation cost
$931,023.68

Total listed on the Historic Preservation Certificate application, with receipts. Teresa estimates the same work would cost close to $2 million today.

Framed photos of the renovation in progress, hung on a brick wall
Framed photos of the abandoned interior and the overgrown back wall before renovation

Framed photos of the building before and during the renovation, from Teresa's video tour.

Location

Downtown, a walk from the courthouse

The building sits right off Lee Street East in downtown Charleston, with strong street visibility for signage. Restaurants, apartments and shopping are close by, along with many professional offices, banks and the courthouse.

One parking space comes with the property, behind the building. A pay lot is directly beside it.

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The building's long side wall along the street
Side wall on Lee Street
Pay parking lot beside the building
Pay lot beside the building
Rear of the building with the one parking space
Rear door and parking space
Included in the sale

The former City National branch

The one-story space to the left of the main building, at 715 Lee, comes with the property and is part of the 5,000 sq ft. It was once a City National bank branch: about 500 sq ft of open floor with its own street entrance and a restroom with a shower.

With its own door to the street, it can work as a separate office, a rental unit or a client-facing storefront. Its roof is reachable from a door in the second-floor storage closet of the main building.

Inside the former bank branch: tile floor and French doors
Inside the former bank branch: open tiled room
The bank branch's restroom
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