Definitely no ghosts in there
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You know I was just thinking how it'd be really cool to buy that house, live in it, and slowly and fix it up. That's literally how horror movies start.
Go to renovate the basement, knock out a wall. "Huh, there's an extra room back here!" Weird paintings and stuff on the walls. Stone floor that fades into dirt in the back of the room along the rear wall that is far older than the rest of the house. Boom. Indian burial ground.
When I was very little, we lived in a house like that, except not in bad condition. Long story, but we were quite wealthy, and then very suddenly, never again. Lol.
Anyway, my brother and I decided it would be fun to sled down the stairs one day, and toward the bottom of the stairs one of us hit one of those little metal strips that held the carpet down on the stairs with the edge of the sled. When my dad was fixing it later they discovered that the stairs lifted up Munsters style, and there was an entire room down there, under the floor, with a tunnel that lead God knows where.
Turns out it wasn't satanists, but was in fact part of the underground rail road, and was used by folks smuggling slaves up north. Ridiculously cool to thing to have in your house
Make sure to movie your teenage kid into that new room!
I would live there if I was a southern vampire.
Built decades after slavery was abolished, actually seems out of place for its size and style.
Do you mean plantation era...? Because it doesn't seem like any plantation era house I've seen. More like a pretty standard Victorian, imo, which tracks for when it was built. I'm just a lay person, however, and certainly no architect, so I could be wrong.
You're really going to sit there and tell me this is nothing like a southern antebellum style house?
That its spacious parlour and large number of rooms doesn't reminisce of a time of servitude in the USA?
I mean, yeah. It's just a different style altogether. Parlors and room number has nothing to do with what the house looks like and the architectural era it belongs to.
It would be more accurate to say that it smacks of the gilded age (a time of the greatest wealth disparity in our history) than of the civil war era, even though that still isn't quite right, as the Victorian era is its own thing outside of the Edwardian era.
The US has had more than one age of servitude beyond just the obvious slavery era, sorry to say. It's kind of our brand.
Looks pretty antebellum style to my eyes, at the very least antebellum-inspired. I mean, I say at the very least, but what I know about antebellum architecture is pretty limited to having seen them in passing in US Civil War books, lmao.
Less grandiose than most, but it's got that kind of forward-heavy look combined with obsessive symmetry and that weird Anglo-Classical fusion.
I would click through some of the examples in your wiki link and try and notice a few things that most of the antebellum houses have in common. They're usually defined by the their blocky shape and the large columns in front; very Greek-revival.
This house, however, has completely different details and layout. Beyond the fact that it's missing the telltale columns and imposing silhouette, the design is more intricate and a touch more delicate. The Victorians loved fine details, and were very 'extra' in that way.
But honestly, all of that aside, the biggest tell is just the date it was built. A different style was simply the fashion then compared to earlier in the century. Just like how mid century modern was it's own thing outside of WW2 era suburban homes, though they're similar.
Maybe they liked the old slavery style?
"It's just a fact of life", you know.
Dumb question but what is slavery style? Like it seems like everyone else can immediately tell, but by looking at the house I personally don't know enough to be like "that house is a slave era house". Is it just the architectural style? Or is there a different tell? Thanks in advance I'm ignorant and dumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antebellum_architecture
It's a specific style dating back to the era of slavery. A lot of old plantation-type houses in the South have the style, and it's... grotesquely romanticized in some corners as a more 'rustic' time.
Maybe they meant a more 'rusty' time, what with all the chains and manacles and whatnot.
That's cursed lol
Got it makes sense! Thanks, this made some other things I've heard click into place.
Big parlour.
Large number of rooms.
Display of wealth and status in a rural area.
I feel like if you were going to own human beings then you would want to do it while living in an Antebellum Style home.
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Manor Homes are extremely expensive without slaves and serfs. English lords only barely made it work with large scale unforgiving rent income. Just ask Ireland and India.
So the house was built in 1894, and boy, do I have some surprising historical facts for you!
Well? Fact me, friend!
The Emancipation Proclamation was declared in 1862, well before this house war erected.
That's gotta be 4000 sq ft, tops. It's a prototype McMansion.
Why, no one’s been in that house for nigh on forty years!
'cept for ol' Wizard Whately, and that sad, sad albino daughter o' his Lavinia...
Pretty sure I played a mission there in RDR2...
Or Powerwash Simulator
Finder's keeper
Definitely haunted
Finally some roommates, gonna get the ouija board and force them to pay rent.
Looks a bit like the house from Stranger Things.
Which is also in Georgia.
