Interesting picture of a house where I grew up.

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I found this cruiseing on the internet. It is less than a mile from where I was raised. The house was built by two twins, "The Foote brothers" I think in the 1850s. Each family had a identical wing. I belive it was a gangster hideout durring proabition days. I knew a family that lived in part of it in the 50s. They told me it had a long tunnel to the road from the basement to escape if need be. It`s at Eureka, Wisconsin. Belive I heard ghost storys too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3.../3180096443/sizes/o/
 
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I found this cruiseing on the internet. It is less than a mile from where I was raised. The house was built by two twins, "The Foote brothers" I think in the 1850s. Each family had a identical wing. I belive it was a gangster hideout durring proabition days. I knew a family that lived in part of it in the 50s. They told me it had a long tunnel to the road from the basement to escape if need be. It`s at Eureka, Wisconsin. Belive I heard ghost storys too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3.../3180096443/sizes/o/
 
I bet it was beautiful at one time. It's pretty gargamel-looking now.
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I had to look up gargamel! I learned a new word!
A large family of boys lived there in the 50s that I went to grade school with. I belive they were the last. Even then, they kept a rideing horse IN it! I knew a old timer that worked the farm way back. He claimed to have drove a team and wagon and turning it around in the basement!
I am not into it, but I always thought that if some rich person restored it, it could make one heck of a fancy lodge-bar-fancy resturant in the country. Then play up its history, I dont know why no one has done it. Its really a huge farm for the area.
Eureka is on the fox river 15 miles west of Oshkosh. That area was setteled about 1840 as it was on the water way, with paddlewheelers etc, so it was a very old area of the then frontier. There are quite a few very old houses in that area. Untill roads were hacked in thourgh heavy forrests, river travel was it.
If you ever read the book or seen the old movie, "all mine to give, or the day they gave babys away", that is exactly where it happened.
I belive in the late 1800s a couple by the name "Eunson" died just before christmass with a large family. The boy skated down the river pulling his siblings on sleds and passed them out on christmass day! I just looked it up. The event happened christmass eve of 1868.
 
I agree, it should be restored, but in todays dollars would be a fortune. I'm sorry I didn't quite understand your last paragraph about the boy skating down the frozen river pulling the kids on sleds and "passing them out."

Out in a lonely field about a mile from our house there is what we thought was the remains of a foundation for a very small house. We learned from a very old man who was a small boy when it happened that a family of nine died of smallpox within days and they were left lying there till spring and buried there. The "foundation" was a very low wall put up around the graves.
 
Jondar, the parents died, they had a snag of kids, the oldest son gave away his younger brothers and sisters to familys that would take them. It happened to be christmass eve of 1868. It was for real, and one of the grankids to the parents that died got to be a fairly famous writer, and wrote a true story book about it.
In the mid 50s they made a movie of it staring cameron mitchel, and I recall them comeing to our village to promote it. The village, eureka has less people in it now then when I was raised there in the 50s I am guessing we had maybe 350 people. Now maybe 200. We had three grocery stores and two taverns. Now there are no stores but the taverns remain. A 100 years ago it was much bigger. My dad was raised in the area probley a couple years around 1920. Then my folks bought a place there in 1952. Dad died in 2003 and I had to auction it off. We lived about a little over 1/2 mile from the picture.
 
It is a fixer upper.
Anyone have an address so I can google it?
A friend of mine just got one a bit bigger and far worse looking. He would love to see the one you posted!
Peter
 
Eureka is a village of about 200 people, maybe less. Eureka is about 17 miles west of oshkosh, about 5 miles SW of omro. Omro is on highway 21 between wautoma and oshkosh. That house is on the east edge of eureka on county road "K". It sits on top of a small hill or knowl. Last I knew it was owned by a guy by the name of Warner Bohn Bone Bowin?. He has to be dead by now, could be still owned by his decendants. Could be 1/4 mile straight east of eureka towards wauka. Its on kind of a S curve. Probley can see it on a satilight program, I have. I do have connections in the area and may be able to find out something if I get back this summer. I just would use a realitor out of Omro, Berlin or Oshkosh. Most would know immediately if the place was discribed. I have several long lost cousins walking distance from it. Eureka is a hot spot for fishermen in the summer to get on and off the fox river. Bob and stellas bar there is run by Tom Okiewitz the son, a old classmate of mine, he would know and is in the phone book. One of the best places in the country back there for fridsy fish fries. Thats the big thing back there.
 
The house where I grew up has been replaced by a Walgreens. Makes me feel like John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank.
 
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