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The Hexagon House: the MICHIGAN house with a story
On a quiet street in Harbor Springs, tucked between tall pines and the cold breath of Lake Michigan, stands a house with six sides, no corners, and more history than square footage. It doesn’t shout for attention. But it gets it anyway. This is the Shay Hexagon House—a private residence built in 1888 by Ephraim Shay, the mechanical mind behind the famous Shay locomotive. A man of industry. A man of invention. A man who believed that if something could be done differently—it p
Angela Knight
Jan 21, 20252 min read


The “Haunted” Myrtles Plantation: the LOUISIANA house with a story
In the quiet town of St. Francisville, Louisiana, beneath a canopy of moss-draped oaks, sits a house wrapped in legend. Built in 1796, The Myrtles Plantation is graceful on the outside—white columns, deep verandas, hand-carved details. But inside, it carries something deeper. Something unsettled. This isn’t just a historic home—it’s one of the most haunted places in America. The most enduring tale is that of Chloe, an enslaved woman said to have poisoned the family’s children
Angela Knight
Jan 14, 20251 min read


The H.P. Sutton House: the NEBRASKA house with a story
The H.P. Sutton House isn’t merely a residence—it’s one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s rarest Prairie School designs, and the only Wright home ever built in Nebraska. Commissioned by Eliza Sutton in the early 1900s and completed in 1908, the house still stands as both a functional family home and an enduring work of architectural art. From the outside, the home is all clean lines and low profiles—horizontal planes extending outward like wings, echoing the vast prairie horizon. Wide
Angela Knight
Jan 7, 20252 min read
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