Ghosts A Foot

  Jennings-Baker House, Circa 1888 in NC. It’s Haunted! That old picture is amazing! $125,000  The Jennings-Baker house was built in 1888. So much history with this one! That old picture they included is everything! The brickwork is amazing and it should be! Let me share the history. William G. Jennings and his son-in-law were in business together. In the October 1887 edition of the Reidsville Times there was an advertisement for their business. “Manufacturers and contractors of all kinds of brick and brickwork.” By 1889 Jennings company could produce 20,000 bricks a day! His company produced 400,000 bricks for the local cotton mill that was being built. They say his house was designed to show off his bricks and all that he could do with them. The house was described as a small gothic castle back in the day. In 1900 Jennings sold his brickyard and his house and moved to Guilford County. In 1905 the house was purchased by the Baker family. Mary Baker was a well known photograph...

  Osgood Castle/Cleveholm Manor/Redstone Castle Construction of a mansion on the Crystal River also began in 1899. The mansion was named Cleveholm Manor, using his nickname, Cleve, and holm meaning “alongside a river.” The Castle was built as a hunting retreat, and constructed of large stone blocks hand-cut and quarried from the nearby sandstone cliffs. No expense was spared as the finest craftsmen of the era built the towering mansion on a sloping hillside in the Crystal River valley. Entering the Castle today is like entering another time. The main residence offers 23,000 sq. ft. of living space, with 66 rooms that range from an English-style Great Hall and a Russian-inspired formal dining room to a delicate Ladies’ Drawing Room decorated in the French style of the era. Oversized claw-foot bathtubs grace the bathrooms, and Persian carpets embellish the floors. An estimated 60% of the original furnishings remain at the Castle today. John Cleveland Osgood John Cleveland Osgood (Mar...