I want to share with you my dream house:

[lildreamer316]

Price: $875,000
Square Feet: Approx. 4,560
Lot Size: 23 acres

-Built in 1897 overlooking the Haw River, this property includes 23 acres.
-Property includes separate servants cottage and several outbuildings needing restoration.
-This property is habitable, but would greatly benefit from a full restoration.
-Interior millwork still remains, i.e. doors, mantels, trim, flooring.
-Currently listed on the National Register, it is eligible for rehabilitation tax credits.



Can you imagine? I just wanted to put it up, it's so beautiful. An oasis; I think.
Someday, if the time is right.......

[I Have A Dream]

1. Ooooo... great house!

It looks as though it's a house with a past. Maybe there are even some otherworldly visitors. (I always think of this when I see beautiful old houses.)

I hope that someday this dream comes true for you, lildreamer! :thumbsup:

[Lumily]

2. I grew up less than a mile from that house.

That's the old Teague house. It sits right off of HWY 49. There's quite a few beauties like that all through Alamance County.

[lildreamer316]

5. OOoo!!

So we're neighbors!! (pretty much--Jamestown)
Um...how do you get there? Can you see it from the road or is it hard to get to? I don't wanna tresspass, but I'd love to drive by it.

[Lumily]

12. It's just off of Hwy 49 in Haw River.

It just occured to me that I probably shouldn't put the directions to someone's house on the net. So I'm PMing the directions to you.

[GardeningGal]

3. Wouldn't it be fun to be able to restore that?

Very nice! Is that in North Carolina?

[lildreamer316]

8. Yep!

I'd love to try restoring it. Tax credits too.....

[Quakerfriend]

4. It's pretty inexpenxive for all that! Just beautiful.

And, where is this exactly??

[lildreamer316]

6. ...

Haw River, NC--Near Winston Salem.

[Lumily]

7. It's in Haw River, North Carolina.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchrha/House.htm

It's an old mill town right in between Durham and Greensboro on I-85.

[lildreamer316]

10. Hey..

Thanks for the extra link!

[MorningGlow]

9. A turret!

Or a round-ish room...I've always wanted one of those!

That's a gorgeous house--good call! I would take one like that as well!

Hey, speaking of turrets, I have a question that's been plaguing me for, like, most of my life--when I was a young 'un, I read a "young adult" novel about a girl who went on summer vacation with her family and, since she was a teenager, was of course bored out of her mind. They rented a tumbledown old Victorian house. And one day the girl found a book of shadows in the house and started doing the spells in it, and they worked. A turret room figured into the story, I believe.

Does ANYbody know what that book is (was)? I would love to find it again, but I can't remember the title or the author or anything (heck, I was 11, and I read tons of books--plus it was a library book--I never saw it again...)

[lildreamer316]

11. There's a site..

dedicated to finding those books. Lemme see if I bookmarked it.

Try this: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/docs/ReadingRoom/BookSleuth/Unsolved/jul10.shtml

and I know there's another...

[MorningGlow]

13. ...Why didn't I think of that?

All the hours I spend on the Internets and it never occurred to me to search for it? D'oh!

Anyway, I FOUND IT. THANK YOU for the great idea! I found it on another book search site (Loganberry Books) and I just bought a used copy from Amazon! Oh frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!

BTW, it's called The Active-Enzyme, Lemon-Freshened, Junior High School Witch, by Wallace Hildick. And I read in a comment on Amazon that the book she finds is a real book about witchcraft--Paul Hillson's Mastering Witchcraft. Now that's funny!

I am so excited! (Can you tell?) It's going to be fascinating reading this from my point of view now--a witch of a dozen years or so.

THANKS AGAIN!

:yourock: