A friend, who had been cleaning out old boxes in her parents’ house, came across this photograph of her great-grandfather’s former home, dated 1929. She rushed over to show it to me, asking if I could guess which house it was. I quickly thumbed through “A Pride of Place“, still laying open on the kitchen counter where, just the day before, we had been identifying all the houses we recognized. She smiled mischievously as I tried guessing unsuccessfully among my favorite historical properties in the county. After several hints, it dawned on me hand-to-mouth! This is the very house that — at first sight — inspired the creation of House Key’s Greigston Manor! Only it looks much different now than it did back then. Like Greigston Manor, it too has a storied past, having gained tremendous notoriety after it was sold to the subsequent owner mentioned on the back of the photograph. It’s a story worthy of its own novel…
Do you recognize this house?
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