Gargoyles, crosses, stained glass window, piles of rocks, columns of lions, bright red door, and a widow's walk are among the items featured prominently at this abode. This blue house, located beside the highway not too far from I-85 and Alamance Elementary, at 1822 Alamance Church Road, is quite an enigma. If online databases are correct, it was built in 1895, has four bedrooms, one bath, and is 6,299 square feet. That's one bedroom per appoximately 1,500 feet and only one bathroom for the whole house-- possibly a world record! In 1995, the house sold for $39,000. Surely, they have been working on it since then. If you look between lion-topped column 1 and 2, you can see a structure peeking out. Is this a private residence? Are they gearing up for an HGTV episode of "If there walls could talk?"
We posted this house with this odd perspective and the fading lions on the right because today is theme day for the City Daily Photo community and September's theme is "perspective." Whether you define perspective as 'point of view' or 'the visual/spatial effect of something appearing to get smaller on a two-dimentional surface,' today's photo is definitely an odd perspective! Visually, it is a lot to parse! Do help us find out its story. Do head over to the City Daily Photo site to see more interesting photos from around the world. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
This is some house. Very well-maintained, even if I'm not so fond of the added "decorations". :)
Posted by: Halcyon | Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 07:11 AM
Wo, this is way weird!
And I enjoyed learning the term widow's walk.
Posted by: Dina | Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 07:43 AM
I would be curious to find out more about the house and the eclectic collections!
Posted by: Katja Brown | Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Perhaps it is really a Tardis and therefore much bigger on the inside! Well it IS Blue! I like the rusty effect on the rocks and yard decor. This would be a great yard/house to do up at Halloween. Live Ravens stalking about the grounds would be a nice touch...now how to lure them?
Have a great holiday weekend!
Posted by: Janis | Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 04:11 PM
That looks to be a bit much and I LOVE gargoyles. ???????????
Posted by: Birdman | Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 05:55 PM
Interesting backstory as always. Kind of Adam's family-ish.
Posted by: barb farr | Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 09:25 PM
I usually don't like blue houses but this one I do! Interesting combination of decor.
Posted by: RamblingRound | Thursday, September 01, 2011 at 11:22 PM
A friend and I stopped today and took pictures of this house when we saw it. Just thought you should know the mailbox in front says the address is 1817, not 1822. We were thinking about renting the house right next to it!
Posted by: James Gemperline | Sunday, January 08, 2012 at 08:09 PM