Thursday, July 23, 2020

House of dreams finally completed after years of devoted work

(Salisbury Independent)


Years ago, it was a peculiar sight from Mount Vernon Road, west of Princess Anne. Across a field of early autumn’s golden weeds, near the edge of the woods, sat a two-story wooden house with an end of brick. It was distinctive with its patterned wall of red and blue bricks and massive chimney.

The field is gone now, replaced by trees. The house remains, hidden from view.
It looks like a structure from the early 1700s. It was a house of dreams, a house unlike any other on the Eastern Shore. All of the woodwork, from the foundation up, was custom made by the man who also laid the thousands of bricks on each end of the house.

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