{"id":281150,"date":"2026-09-08T01:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281150\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T01:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:08:20","slug":"pittsburgh-man-wins-newly-renovated-house-in-buckhannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281150\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh man wins newly-renovated house in Buckhannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BUCKHANNON, W.Va (WBOY) \u2014 Mission Appalachia announced the winner of its Labor Day House Giveaway Monday in Buckhannon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Benjamin Stoviak of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will soon be making the move to West Virginia, where he&#8217;ll take ownership of the home on Smithfield Street in Buckhannon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 100-year-old residence was renovated by Mission Appalachia and Superior Contracting Services, fully restoring the home and preparing it for a new homeowner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers said the giveaway reached far beyond West Virginia, with more than half a million people entering for their chance to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We had 760,000 individual entries, which was mind-blowing. People from all over the country participated,&#8221; Mission Appalachia representative Colin Reger said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the announcement, Mission Appalachia organizers said they spoke to Stoviak, who plans to relocate to the Mountain State in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WBOY.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wboy.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WBOY.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUCKHANNON, W.Va (WBOY) \u2014 Mission Appalachia announced the winner of its Labor Day House Giveaway Monday in Buckhannon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[117552,117553,117550,73,75,74,117551],"class_list":["post-281150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-benjamin-stoviak","tag-buckhannon","tag-mission-appalachia","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-stoviak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}